Procrastinators Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from chronic procrastination.

Tuesday, 6th November, 2012

Just for today ... 

Just for today I will try to live through this day only and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for 12 hours that would appal me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime.

Just for today I will be happy. This assumes to be true what Abraham Lincoln said, that: "most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." 

Just for today I will have a programme. I may not follow it nexactly but I will have it. I will save myself from two pests - hurry and indecision.

Just for today I will be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful and to believe that, as I give to the world, so the world will give to me.

Just for today I will not procrastinate.

tila - Tues

Lots of errands today: 

  • HI, Sf, Ta, A
  • SPC - review well, scan mist; do remaining LG
  • LR - review problematic questions
  • S, J, MT, receipts, b/a 
  • kitchen, dinner, laundry, vacuum, 2nd b/r, Lichi, vitamins 

clement ci

quiet time inspiration :

take every thought captive to obey Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5

of course i dont think i can do this. But God can make this happen in me. Thanks for the inspiration, god.

149pm

there it is. that feeling. familiar. I finished my quiet time, and clicked off DONE. and i get that feeling. "I DID THAT." I'm not so bad after all...

I cannot for the life of me believe that the person that just accomplished that one thing is the EXACT SAME PERSON that wasted the 2nd half of yesterday.

It has become clear for the first time that this is NOT a sense of accomplishment, but a compulsion to bury / deny who / what i am. I have an addictive personality. If i just did something, i doesnt mean i DONT have an addictive personality ( like i always think ) it means i have just been blessed with recovery.

I dont know if i can control the feeling. I have to depend on God for that, also.

948pm

i did it again. i tore myself away from an activity i'm addicted to and i did an MIT. My instinct, my reflex is to see that as proof that i was never an addict in the first place. I just went thru a bad spell. I had an off day. and off week, year, decade.

In fact i see something new: the urge to remove from myself the label of addict--in fact ANY negative label--is itself a sign of the addiction itself. I'm addicted to not thinking of myself negatively. I'm addicted to disproving negative labels about myself. I'm addicted to proving i'm good enuf. And there we will recognize a common source of addictive behavior.

But, i have God. He is the abundant answer for this thing. He asks me to place my self-value in his love of me, his redemption of me, rather than on my skills, abilities, and accomplishments. To live a life of striving so that i can serve him, my family, my church, and my community, and mankind, rather that striving for accomplishments to prove i'm good enuf.

And even tho i can say those words, it's much harder for me to live it. I ask God right here right now to help me live it. Amen.

the touch of the master's hand: http://procrastinators-anonymous.org/node/1898#comment-27748

fall down seven times, get up eight - japanese proverb

bookmarks

Check-in at lunchtime -

Check-in at lunchtime

- plan/make dinner

- write note for M

- check voicemails

- email AB

- washing

 

Rexroth Check In

Tired and feel like lying in bed and there are things I want to do more so up and...

Done:
Up prayer and reflection
Checked emails and sites
Downloaded writing info

Todo:
x Tidy, wash up, put rubbish out, put dry clothes away, clear bits of table ... - seemed to take forever
x Continue to study how to use camera controls - at long last I feel I am getting somewhere
x Start craft work - only a little but I got my machine working and found all the bits I need to work
x Start exercise - again only a little but I have started
x Planning and continue with writing on travel - done and there is so much I feel overwhelmed and muddled
x Write journal
x Anything else that turns up - there was some admin from yesterday which I could well have put off and I didn't, I phoned a friend which again I could have put off, and finally I washed up tonight when I usually leave it until the morning
x Prayer and reflection
Bed and sleep

Regards Rexroth

Rexroth Check Out

I've done everything I intended to and some extras as well so I am well content with the early flowering of recovery. I am also dog tired and though it is nearly only eight I am going to bed and I hope going to sleep.

Night Folks

Rexroth

Calypso checks in

My commitment for today:

 Keep an Attitude of Gratitude No Matter What Is Said To Me And No Matter What Circumstances Present Themselves.

Keywords Of Today: Grateful, Courageous, Cherishes Others, Honors Her Word, Joy

 In Service of HP

Chapter To Be Completed & Sent Off Today ASAP. 

 Calypso

Hamlet's checkin

1. FOY exercise

2. eat healthy snacks

3. volunteer for campaign

4. vote(done)

5 check in with Estonian organizations(DONE)

6.cook fish

7. Call mastercard re reward

My Day Today

I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone and online meetings, and my life.

I want to thank jack for starting this trend.

Things I will do today

1. Go to the 5:45 a.m. telephone ACA meeting

2. Go to the 6:45 a.m. telephone OA meeting

3. Go to the 7 a.m. telephone DA meeting

4. Go to the 7:30 a.m. telephone PA meeting

5. Eat breakfast

6. Vote

7. Go to the 8:30 a.m. telephone PA meeting

8. Go to the 9 a.m. telephone ACA meeting

9. Go to the 9:45 a.m. telephone CLA activity line

10. Take shower

11. Get dressed

12. Go to the vocational meeting at 11 a.m.

13. Wash dishes

14. Cook and eat lunch

15. Test blood sugar twice

16. Go to the 6 p.m. telephone OA meeting

17. Eat dinner

18. Go to the 9 p.m. online EA meeting

19. Go to the 9:30 p.m. telephone CLA activity line

20. Read the meditations

21. Prayer and meditations

Thanks for letting me share

Mole's check in

Ah Jack - your thread starter must have reached me by osmosis this morning. I have been so swamped with stuff to do. Somehow this time of year really gets me as we move towards summer, and the evenings are lighter and the noise louder and the demands higher - all too much for this introverted soul. Early this morning I wrote each thing  I had to do on a separate small piece of paper, arranged it by urgency and allocated times. I felt so much better.

lunchtime and I have written from 9-12.30 happy with tthat

have eaten decent meal

now 

sign legal forms

 find card for RM

contact RC 

clear shelves i kitchen 2 poms

take out rubbish

4,15 - 5.15 walk with B

shop for food for tonight

6.30 walk down to HR via b s

7 picnic with E.

bed at 11 

 

jay's tuesday

wash bed clothes, dry and put back on bed

make a smoothie

have oil

PREPARE A BIT OF MENTAL CLARITY___plan  limit reseaech 1 hr x2

wash up kitchen

bath

r coming round

tidy bedroom

check finances

text will bw

phone mum

make decisions about appealing/collecting evidence

eat lentil stew

facebook, forums, reading news on line ect banned today

bathroom prep---for flooring---have a think about

Salamander's check in - Tues 6 Nov 2012

Thank you, jack, for starting the thread. Smile

I would appreciate it if anyone who feels moved to comment on my post here would write to me privately rather than post in reply to this post - so I can still edit this post here. Thank you!

Alarm set: 0800

  • Breakfast
  • Follow Morning Routine

1000

  • Washing - in, on and put around to dry
  • Scoop cat trays (inc Lily's)
  • Weekly Focus (Kitchen): Scrub kitchen floor (30 mins)
  • Declutter Study (1 x 15 mins)
  • Admin at table (30 mins) inc bus pass
  • vision2learn week 1 (2 hours)
  • update diary
  • Diary for holidays
  • BYY charts - print out tables/charts/lists
  • Kitchen: clean work surfaces (30 mins)
  • Back up data to hard drive inc emails

1300 Log in

  • Clean bath with microfibre cloth
  • Ring DN re birthday
  • Sort out handbag
  • Tidy up inside car/bring in rubbish
  • Test smoke alarms
  • Radio Times
  • Follow Bedtime Routine



"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin)

EleanorBE's Tuesday List

Thanks Jack! The Just for Today attitude is perfect advice for me when I'm writing, and try to sort of pack the whole argument into one paragraph. So - Just for Today I will not try to tackle my whole book at once. I can write about something in one paragraph that would apall me if I felt the whole book had to be about that!

Here's what's happening Tuesday.


- Get up early


- Before breakfast, read through end of An chapter and write down what needs doing if there is anything in addition to below. 


- After breakfast, go to library


- Correct/re-write RT section


- Correct/re-write 2xJ section


- Decide if you need to include W/SS section


- Write conclusion. 

- Cut down G section - didn't get as far as this, will do it tomorrow

- If time, at end, do some refs - no time

Jack's check-in for the day

1. breakfast

2. use http://zenhabits.net/now-do-this-and-the-single-tasking-philosophy/

3. start pomo log

4. BB read 

5. OR x3, check online\phone MT

6.check email x pomo

7. FT x 2 pomos – figures, AR write up <2000 words 

8. lunch

9. continue pomo, watch XF after 4 pomos as treat

10. email NT, RC, TR, RD x1 pomo 

11. SP - x1 pomo tbc postponed

12. room tidy - 2 pomo (3:30pm) postoned


13. run - 4:30pm tbc
 postponed

14. early dinner

15. dressed and ready packed by
5:30pm, leave for UV by 6pm

16. SL write up on bus

17. be in bed by 11pm, asleep by midnight