Thursday, 8th November 2012

5pm:

is it possible to abstain from procrastination? Is it advisable? Certainly everyone procrastinates from time to time. But then again everyone can have 1 or 2 drinks. The alcoholic can't. Is that my situation? I have to live a 100% structured life and that is abstinence?

I dont know, but i'm going to try.

I'm clement and i have an addictive personality and it's been 3 minutes since i last went off plan.

i'm going to check mail.

507pm

well it's clear that i'll be talking minutes, and maybe hours, of abstinence at first. Perhaps for a long time. Perhaps for my whole life. But we'll see, right now, i turn my attn to this moment.

622pm:

I'm clement and i have an addictive personality and it's been about 1 minute since i last went off plan.

but before that i was on plan.

going back to plan. quiet time. Lord reach me.

6:37pm

after being on plan for 13 min, i went off plan. it's been 1 min since i last went off plan. back to qt.

6:42pm.

It has been 5 min since i went off plan.

"Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you." - 2 Corintians 13:11

The bible so often is so uplifting to my soul!

8:16pm

it's been 1h 39m since i was off plan. hmmm. that's encouraging.

8:43pm

it's been 2h 6m since i was last off plan. great meeting. back 2 wk.

10:38pm

it's been 10 min since i last went off plan. tv was on something else ( that i didnt intend to watch ) and i got sucked in. I had a nice streak going there, but i'm not so much worried about long streaks. I'm worried about getting back to abstinence as soon as possible after i get off.

So i am challenged to work, because there's something to check. But that's not the plan. So i'm going to do the form, which is the plan.

Ok,stayed home sick for the 2nd day this week...doesn't make me happy but I felt I needed the rest...coughing uncontrollably and then tired from all the exertion...supposedly an asthma flair up...had to take a lot of different over the counter meds plus some prescriptions and its still there...TIME...Things I must endure...or things I must earn...as my cough is at a stand still...so are things in my life...hmmm?!   maybe if I just dig in and get to the truth of the matter, my cough will subside..I have been procrastinating on a couple of important projects! It's always a struggle to stay consistent! so, I do great on some things and then other things fall to the ground and sit there, rotting,waiting for me to care for them again!  Not good when one of them is finances...so much easier to just go and spend and think you have enough money when you want what you want...then to stay on a budget...and so much easier to go around complaining or even just silently living with glasses with a wrong prescription then to go to the doc and get them adjusted, legitimately my right!   I am worthy of being in good sound financial and health condition! Staying in helpless victim mode does me no good!   

 So, just for today, ready or not...

3:30. I will go make a nice cup of tea, turn on some good music, and go thru my box of financial papers...

5:00. I will go thru my fridge and get that in good healthy order...

5:45. I will gt in good healthy order to go to an anniversary mtg.

6:15  and go! 

Info and discussion here:
http://procrastinators-anonymous.org/node/4531

I feel like I really haven't gotten much done this week, and I'm frustrated with myself. But, I can still work today. I will
*Do half of the counts for 1 samp (working on this now)
*Finish outline
*Finish captions
*Email out to T and E (
*Email about comm. mtg (not sure this is gonna happen today)
*Email about E's shower (will do this soon)
*Finish financial records
*Take care of m. (tag/correct, weigh, restore as needed, start dig.) (don't think this is gonna happen today)
*Email bf
*Pray, read bible

*Radiation safety training

*Reserve zipcar

Show up (done), cal, exer

"Mindful Moment:Commit to the vision.

Take
a moment to reflect on one situation in your life that you'd like to
change, and write down the specific things about it that you wish were
different. Then, write down how you would like that situation to be.
Throughout your day, whenever you find yourself thinking of the
circumstances as they are now, remind yourself of the new way you
envision them. As you change your thoughts, you are harnessing nature's
flow of energy, information, and intelligence to change your life."

D.Chopra

Good morning, everyone, and thanks, Mole.

Here's my day:

6:15-6:20 lectio divina 

6:30-8:45 write 

8:45-9:10 get ready for work

9:10-4:45 commute, work (incl. bulletin board, lunch, email

4:45-5:30 library, gas station, home

5:30-6:00 put dinner in oven

6-6:45 as many to-dos as possible 

6:45-7:45 dinner

7:45-9:00 clean, shower, prep for tomorrow

9-10 lang, read

Today is a day that I am so grateful for this fellowship. I don't feel 100% but am quite well enough to do something. It is the sort of day when if I was not retired I would go into work. Without this fellowship and this check in I would be lying in bed all day doing nothing in particular.

Done:
Up prayer and reflection
Checked emails and posts

Todo:
x Go out and photocopy letter - and I bought some food and a birthday card for a friend and I didn't want to be bothered to do either
x Finish letters to landlord and post them
Washup and clear up mess in kitchen
x Email friend 1
Email friend 2
Write more in journal about yesterday
Writing
Camera study
Write journal for today
Prayer and reflection
Bed and sleep

Regards Rexroth

Feel free to comment I'm happy to cut and past my todo list

• up early
• H I O
• readings
•  tidy
• write list LC
• write list nov
• write letter to HM
• write letter FI
• put in info database so far
• drop envelope to SF
• H I O
• pay d m st f
• banking
• organise v rent
• ring sponsor
• journal 
• w plan 
• rhb plan
• Uni - 9 jounals 
• Add into database
• Print letters and schedules
• look j ws
• go to c appointment
• pool and rehab 
• H I O

Thank you, O Mole, for starting the thread. Nice quotation.

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
• Buy cat litter
• Tidy up inside car/bring in rubbish

• Spot clean dining room carpet
• Hoover downstairs
• Put back furniture
• Open out dining table
• Weekly Focus (Kitchen):
  Scrub kitchen floor (30 mins)
• Admin at table (30 mins) inc
  bus pass & update diary
• vision2learn unit 1, segment 3
• Kitchen: Flylady focus
• Ring DN re birthday
  
• 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)