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.
Sunday November 18, 2012
HAPPY SUNDAY, EVERYBODY!
Tool Three of PA:
Ask Yourself Why: While you are visualizing doing the task, see if you can detect what it is about the task that feels odious to you, what uncomfortable feeling you are avoiding. Knowing what's behind the avoidance can help you get past it - for example, address real problems or ignore irrational fears.
Have a great proactive day and have a nice weekend!
Peace
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clement ci - day 11 attempting abstinence
Here are my challenges
It's been 9h 14min since i've been off task. 20 hrs 47min cumulative off plan in 10 days, since 11/8/2012. NFL RedZone is on and it's addicting.
Last night before bed bible reading. If there was EVER confirmation that abstinence from going off plan is the right way for me to go, THIS IS IT :
Slaves to God
You are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
v16 "slaves to obedience"
v18,19 "slaves to righteousness"
v22 "slaves to God"
v23 equates "the gift of God", freely given, grace, to being a slave to obedience, righteousness, God.
The bible teaches a paradoxical mix of freedom and slavery. I dont know how this plays out for "normal" people, but it seems to be perfectly tuned to my existence. "Recovery" sets me free from the slavery of addiction and procrastination, and gives me the opportunity to subject myself to the slavery of God. The "freedom" of will to choose the Next Right Thing at every point, is essentially slavery to obedience, or righteousness, or God.
2:59 pm :
i got off plan for about 2 min. It's been 10 min since i last went off plan. 20 hrs 49min cumulative off plan in 10 days, since 11/8/2012.
Next up is to plan the rest of this day.
fall down seven times, get up eight - japanese proverb
Chatbox 12step mtg TODAY Sun. 2:30pm NewYork StandardTime
All welcome!
This is a Traditional
Twelve-Step meeting.
Chatbox PA 12step meeting TODAY in the special meeting area of the chatbox
(See link http://procrastinators-anonymous.org/node/4094 for more info).
NOTE: At the moment the chatbox is still free-of-charge; so therefore today's meeting will go on as planned.
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jays sunday
i realised i was overwheming myself with ebay, just because 100 items can be listed free in a weekend dosn't mean i have to. why can't i be ready, cos i know free listing weekends will come so i think i just NEED to declutter the spare room and have the items photograped ready for the next free weekend. this is procrastionation, i know i shloud do it but i put it off, then get in a panic and become debilatated.
i feel incapable of making a plan for today
things that are imperative:
eat
phone mum
thats better, my mums so lovely why do i get nervous about phoning her
phone my bro m
eat lentil stew this evening
go to bed on time to get up for gym appt in morning
have a bath, be ready for gym
pack bag for gym, have all clothes layed out
it's 13.21 now so i've allready wasted hours
so eat
then spend time listing with the good photographs allready taken
choose 10 things to photgraph,
FOLLOW THROUGH AND LIST THEMmake a list for tomorrow incorporating time spent on accessment and power
ps i am really curoius about salamanders floor and why it needs so much scrubbing is it a self punishment?
have a good day everybody
20 mins clean up kitchen live it tidy for morning
clear up r's stuff and put in cupboard
just going to make my list for tomorrow, motivation has been low today and i must get to bed before i have a second wind
Knitfisher's first check-in 10.35am (GMT)
Thanks to lennon.
I welcome encouragement but please reply to the whole thread rather than this post so I can update it. - Thank you!
Today I will get the following done:
Have a shower
Cancel mum's internet whichever way I can do today (letter or online) Cannot do anything today as will only accept cancellation by phone and they are not open today for me to call them to ask for a postal address as she cannot cancel by phone.
Reply to C
A load of washing
Take 2 x 15 a declutter in spare room and office
Practise sight-reading
Do a duolingo session
Take a walk in the park with M
Good luck with your day everyone.
Really upset that I couldn't even get the first proper thing on my list done. Feel useless...
So,um, didn't go well today
After falling at the first hurdle (although I fell a lot earlier than that) I don't get much done at all today. I was very upset for some of it, and willfully escaping into time-wasting for most of the rest. As always the link between depression, procrastination and poor self-image is as blurred as ever.
My working week begins tomorrow, and although it can seem like I get more done out of the house, it never seems to be the right things or the right time.
Wishing you all luck on your journey. Good night.
unfair Knitfisher
It seems to me you did quite a lot of things. I hope you will have a good day tomorrow and are able to feel that the things you accomplish are the right things. I hope this for myself also.
v best,
Hooch
Rexroth Check In 08.19
Done:
Up prayer and reflection
Checked emails and posts
Todo:
x Get ready and go to church - gone and glad I went and arranged a meeting with the minister
x Wash up and tidy a little
x Plan week
x Prepare for meeting tomorrow - done but I feel a
x Prayer and reflection
x Write journal
Also chatted with friend on phone and invited over for Boxing Day
Todo:
Bed and sleep
Night Rexroth 21.52
Sunday
Thanks lennon
Clean upvacum/floorsHIOreadingsinish main documentcheck against mrfinish list of ds get addresses and numbersgo t ou and print outedit againprint outjournalbankingaccountsrehab excercisesring sponsorHIOhealthy dinnerHIObed earlyMy Day Today
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone and online meetings, and my life.
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 8 a.m. telephone OA meeting5. Go to the 9 a.m. telephone ACA meeting6. Cook and eat breakfast7. Cook and eat breakfast8. Take shower
9. Get dressed10. Go to my mother's apartment11. Prayer and meditation twice
12. Go to a religious meeting at 2 p.m.13. Warm up and eat dinner13. Write three questions for tonight's meeting14. Call a friend to put the questions in my e-mail so I can work on them before the meeting.
15. Go to the 7 p.m. online EA meeting16. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting17. Go to the PA workshop at 9 p.m.Thanks for letting me share
ms sunday
thanks for the start lennon
specifics
read and reply to all gs emailsgym, ct.see O1 hr on prop.clean 1 room.email s about seminarconstants
eat with mindfulness and self careno nappingbe careful with moneySalamander's check in - Sun 18 Nov 2012
Thank you, lennon, for starting the thread.
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!
Follow Morning RoutinePhone MY re birthdayChange cat traysAttend PA online meeting at 1930And
Scrub kitchen floor (30 mins).
Monday: Tidy up inside car/bring in rubbish
Best wishes to my "comrades in arms". Thank you to Mole for the suggestion about doing one tile at a time for my kitchen floor.
"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)