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.

Monday, 19th November 2012

18 November, 2012 - 5:23am - Mole

I am not an early eiser. The self -respect which other people enjoy in rising early i feel due to me for getting up at all.

William Gerhardi.

Congratulations on waking up everyone. May your week be filled with achievements, big and small.


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Kodos

Kodos - 19 Nov 2012 - 6:49pm

Thanks, everybody, for being here. I did get a lot done today, but it was a crap day all around and I came home from work and got into bed with the cat. 45 minutes of that seemed to do the trick, and now I'm going to get back up on the horse and finish the day:

5:45-6:00 shower

6-6:30 make dinner

6:30-7:30 to-dos--books for A, call Rh?, fb messages, squirrel

7:30-8:30 dinner

8:30-9:00 clean/prep for tomorrow

9-10 read, lang 

11.19.12 Babarino CI

Babarino - 19 Nov 2012 - 9:49pm

most of work tasks done. 4 personal tasks tonight.

-exercise class
(done)

-buy envelopes
(done)

-reading

-get ready for yoga am

Thank you all for being here! You are awesome!

Hjf2bmecheck in 11/19/12

hjf2bme - 19 Nov 2012 - 10:25pm

Ugh! Hate when I type and then lose it :( let's try this again!


5:30 dinner and kitchen(dang! 6 and I just finished eating! O well, that's me and my messed up sense of time!)


6:00 clean kitchen! 

6:00 front hallway


6:30 dining room

7:00 bathrooms!

7:30 bedroom


8:00 dust bowl and paper piles

9:00 DVD's, etc. and games

10:00 bed!

ready or not, here I go! 

Well...tomorrow is another day! Thank God! Tired! Good night!

 

@clement

movingalong - 19 Nov 2012 - 3:25pm

re: your check-in post today ...

(speaking *only* for *me*) ...
I would say that the basis of a 12step "program" is
the spiritual* aspects of the Steps.

The tools and plans are supplemental.
They're great!
but they don't last without the foundation.

I used to think that "meetings" were the "program".
I eventually came to realize that meetings & check-ins are "tools" ...
but working and living the steps is the "program".

* (for anyone reading, "Spiritual" can mean different things to different people.
"Spiritual" for atheists can be "wiser philosophy" or "better self".)

thanks movingalong

clement - 19 Nov 2012 - 8:26pm

It is the same for me. I like the idea of foundation.

you mentioned working the steps. The steps all seem different to me.

steps 1-3 seem primarily spiritual.
step 4 seems primarily earthly. It deals with my character flaws.

i dunno. since i'm in step 4 it seems earthly. But we do talk about higher power in step 4. Maybe it's just me. Maybe *I* am earthly, and i'm bringing my earthliness to it.

steps 6-7 are interesting. They dont say "fix myself" do they? I dont think i ever noticed that. They say, "Let God fix me." Isn't that interesting.

The other thing that perplexes me about the steps. Is that they say nothing about Alcohol ( or procrastination ). For example, "Hi, I'm X and it's been Y days since my last drink." That's not in the steps anywhere.

for me, i dont see abstinence from going off-plan in the steps anywhere. But i haven't worked them thru. I probably just can't see it yet. It's still early for me. I have a lot to learn.

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

fall down seven times, get up eight - japanese proverb

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re: mentioning addiciton within text of steps

movingalong - 19 Nov 2012 - 9:51pm

Yup.

In all the 12step programs, the addiction or compulsion is mentioned
ONLY in step one and step twelve.

The rest of the steps are about inner spiritual healing and transformation

tila - Mon

tila - 20 Nov 2012 - 1:30am

Had a very relaxing weekend with the family. Now, ready to work-work. Plan for today:

  • errands - mail, bank, Ta, Ra, gas 
  • study - LR, print out problems
  • kitchen, dinner, laundry (r, b)
  • Xmas tree, l/r, hobby 1, hobby 2  

QueSera CI - M 11/19

quesera - 19 Nov 2012 - 3:44pm

Thank you for the thread starter Mole!

I thought I'd be excited to check-in when I first got access, but I was surprised to find myself resisting the idea. I felt rather overwhelmed and ashamed of how much work I'd put off, and I realized I didn't want to commit it to text in a forum that then implied I would have to actually tackle the work. Nonetheless, the work isn't going away and it is never going to be easier than it is now. It still won't be easy, but putting it off won't help. So to help me commit and feel connected while I work, I figure it is time for my first check-in.

I welcome comments and encouragement if anyone has them - private messages or a separate thread would be ideal so that I can edit this one. Best of luck to everyone else in your struggles and victories!

*Go to coffee shop tonight to get work done
*Forward error message
*Finish writing up report part 1
*Finish writing up report part 2
*Finish writing up report part 3
*Finish conclusions section
*Prepare powerpoint slides
*Review feedback and incorporate
*Ask for meeting time tomorrow
*Notes 1 and 2
*Plan out work required for remaining projects
*If time, begin work on one of them

Remaining projects: PaperB (asap), PaperT (asap), Scoring (this Wed), PaperD (in a week), ReportN (next Mon)

Innertruth's check-in

InnerTruth - 19 Nov 2012 - 12:35pm

Afternoon:

  • Book room at MH
  • Pay TD
  • Look for stuff for email marketing and write 3 emails (don't have to send them)
  • Renew prescription
  • 3 pm PA chat

Evening

  • Review phonics and tenses 
  • Set alarm for 5:15 am

 

andy 11/19 check in

andy_b - 20 Nov 2012 - 11:52am

eat breakfast

make tea

complete image 

post image

look up directions to apt

work on MMA H

send email to E telling about MMA H 

return email to M
make revisions to BoE
twitter
2nd FB post
split up Ts with A?
car registration
apt

eat dinner

open building for meeting

make coffee, etc

put out literature

lock up building after

swept bathroom floor

talked to SK on phone

talked to LB on phone  

clement ci - day 12 attempting abstinence

clement - 20 Nov 2012 - 8:55am

10:05 am :

i'm clement and i have and addictive personality, gratefully in recovery. It's been 15 min since i last went off plan ( 6h 10min include sleep ). 24h 22min cumulative off plan last 11 days.

Here are my challenges

  1. pride ( self-worth criteria? )- i have had 11 relatively good days, and i am STRONGLY tempted to believe i am now a different person than i was before. This is akin to someone who has diabetes, and they take their insulin, and see their blood sugar is fine, so they think, "i guess i was never a diabetic in the first place." No, i am better BECAUSE of God's gift to me of this program, this yoke.

    I have this drive to be "good enuf" and fear/pain that i'm not. The idea that i might have finally satisfied that worldly, earthly judgement is too tempting and i jump onto it whenever there's a hint of it there. But it is that same desire to pass that judgement, and fear that i wont, that drives the urge to escape and go off task in the first place. It is the disease, in BOTH cases. Rather, i accept god's forgiveness of me, i accept his righteousness of his own that he gives to me and i accept his transformation, improving me, perfecting me, providing for my growth.

  2. trusting the program rather than god - Thinking that somehow checking in, going to meetings, making a schedule/plan is saving me, without the divine intervention of god leading me to these tools, spiritually making me want to do them, and manipulating the effect they have on my life.
  3. overconfidence - very closely related to pride. Now that i'm "no longer" a procrastinator, i've kicked off that label, i load up my schedule with every grandiose thing, as if i was a time management maven.

:) ck wk
:) quiet time
:) plan
:) MIT prep mtg
:) 2pm mtg
:) 3pm plan rest of day
:) do MIT NRA
:) plan night.

great quiet time. can't quite capture it here. now plan.

5:15pm :

it's been 2 min since i last went off plan. just for 2 min, tho. Cumulative 24h 24min over 11.5 days.

8:26pm :

went off plan for about 15 min, searching online for something of low importance ( but hi curiosity ). I dont have a good alarm clock that goes off that says, you've spent too much time on this; it's not worth it.

It's been 15 min since i went off plan. Cumulative 24h 39min over 11.5 days.

8:45 pm :

it's been 2 min since i last went off plan. I was discouraged by this one. As a perfectionist, as one who's trying to be good enuf, i feel like a failure when i go off plan. but it's GOOD that i noticed, and GOOD that i'm back here and starting again. God i need help on this.

woops, i went off plan while i was typing. 1st one was for like 1 min. This one i started daydreaming, so like 5 min. Cumulative 24h 45min over 11.5 days. Next task is obvious from the list. so do it, altho i feel resistance.

9:57 pm :

It's been 2 min since i last got off task. same as last time--a legitimate activity taken too far. i'm learning more about myself.

i rly srsly need to plan, cuz i have another mtg at 2pm tmrw that i have to prep for. I need 4 hrs.

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

fall down seven times, get up eight - japanese proverb

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Journey 7 am

journey - 19 Nov 2012 - 7:10am

Happy Monday!   Today is a day for me to refocus on my goals.   I came back from a short vacation with my Mom on Saturday and babysat grandkids yesterday so I'm starting out with an energy deficit.   I have also been eating poorly, and forgetting to take my vitamins and meds.   My habit focus this month is eating at least four full servings of fruits and vegetables and I ignored that all weekend, although I did pretty well last week.   

I am taking an unplanned work from home day today because my car is in the shop.  I put it in while on my little trip and expected it to be ready when I got back but it was not.   I am grateful that I can work from home some of the time and I intend to work hard today to be worthy of that perk, regardless of the vacation/holiday mood. 

I will now make my todo list, exercise for 30 minutes, and eat a healthy breakfast.  I know my MITs for the day for work and my personal MITs are to have quiet time, take my vitamins and meds, and get back on track with a healthy diet.

Have a productive and enjoyable day everyone.   

Let your purpose rule your day - Steve Chandler

Jack's check-in for the day

jack - 19 Nov 2012 - 5:50am

Thanks for the thread starter Mole!

 

My task for today:

1. pomo log

2. Tues main tasks CI

3. read Ch5

4. OR1 11am

5. OR2 11:15am

6. weekly planning

7. email check and RD x2 pomo, YV course

8. 

9. early lunch

10. OR3 1:30pm 

11. call SH

12. email key FT contacts x2

13. choose SHSP speech x1 pomo

14. FT x 1 pomo

13. leave for APPG by 3:15pm

14. attend APPG

15. go to SL meeting for 7pm

16. gather new numbers

17. simple supper

18. enjoy SCD

19. answer q18

20. in bed by 11pm 

Monday

jalla - 19 Nov 2012 - 6:45pm

Thanks Mole

 

  • ready
  • readings
  • tidy
  • HIO
  • go U print out docs
  • edit doc 1 
  • edit  doc 2
  • email doc 1 and doc 2 v, m and d
  • email v m fin
  • email sug
  • go to meeting
  • edit doc 3
  • put in changes
  • check against m f
  • finish writing doc 3
  • print out doc 3
  • bank pay rent
  • journal
  • p and c i
  • meet sponsor
  • call d, l, oas,m
  • email k
  • finish doc 3 at home if not done
  • read b file and c letters and add in from there as needed
  • decide gym/pool
  • rehab excercises 
  • skype am
  • dinner
  • HIO
  • bed early 

 

Rexroth Check In 07.58

Rexroth - 19 Nov 2012 - 5:47pm

Woke and my cold has come back and I'm coughing and don't feel that great

Done:
Up prayer reflection
Checked emails and posts

Todo:
Work on landlord's file for meeting at midday
Meeting and afterwards write some letters
Sort out info for meeting at church tomorrow
Rest
Write journal
Prayer and reflection
Bed and sleep

Regards Rexroth

All done apart from sleep Night Rexroth 22.47

Hamlet's checkin

Hamlet - 20 Nov 2012 - 2:36am

1. FoY exercise

2. meditation

3. eat 3 healthy snack

4.call in prescriptions and pick up

5. IRS request

6. Marilyn's blog(Done)

7. lunch with Andrew (Done)

8. conf call with Phil(Done)

9. call Ni jia

10. continue with gardening blog

My Day Today

lennon - 20 Nov 2012 - 12:35am

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

I want to thank Mole for starting this trend.

Things I will do today

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

2. Eat breakfast

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

4. Go to the nurse's appointment at 9 a.m.

5. Go to the bank and deposit money for my mother

6. Go to the 12 noon telephone ACA meeting

7. Eat lunch

8. Take shower

9. Get dressed

10. Prayer and meditation

11. Read the meditations

12. Go to work at 5:30 p.m.

Thanks for letting me share

Salamander's check in - Mon 19 Nov 2012

Salamander - 18 Nov 2012 - 6:32pm

Thank you, O Mole, 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 Routine

  • Scrub 1/4 of kitchen floor

Then

  • Spot clean dining room carpet
  • Tidy up inside car/bring in rubbish  
  • Hoover downstairs
  • Open out dining table
  • Admin at table (30 mins) inc bus pass & update diary
  • vision2learn unit 1, segment 4

And

  • Make pepper & cashew nut pilaff - freeze excess
  • Follow Bedtime Routine

Best wishes to my fellow procrastinators with your days ahead.

Thank you to Mole for the suggestion about doing one tile at a time for my kitchen floor. Maybe I don't need to break it down quite that far but if I do 1/4 of the floor, I might want to do more. And if I don't, then at least I did 1/4, which is more than I have done for weeks now... :-) Win/win!

"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)

jays new start monday

jay - 19 Nov 2012 - 4:10pm

7.00 alarmSmile

quick bath and blockSmile

pack bag
Smile

little snack

8.25 leave for gymSmile

9.00 gym
Smile

shopping on way home
Smile

make smoothieSmile

put burgers on to cook
Smile

20 min blast kitchen and living room
Smileneeds another 15 min

hang all listings in wardrobe, put rest in spare room

12.30 -1.30 power and follow up-call them 

lentil soup

2,30-4,30 accessment work, online, print out DO NOT GET DISTRACTED AND LOG OFF AT 4.30

5,00 pilates

6,30 evening meal
Smile

text BW......
Smile

text g suitcase

phone r

wash up Smile

bath

pack bag for morning

8.00-9.00 learn windows 7

9 chill

go to bed

THINK POSITIVE

ms monday.

ms - 19 Nov 2012 - 4:37pm

thanks for the start mole, and thanks as always pro. Smile

specifics

  • read and reply to all gs emails
  • gym, in morning
  • 2 hr on prop.
  • call a and have that dicussion
  • wash bedding. 
  • plan week teaching.
  • chloe work

constants

  • eat with mindfulness and self care
  • no napping
  • be careful with money

Mole's Check in

Mole - 18 Nov 2012 - 5:42am

Good morning everyone.

7.30 cafe rreview

contact physio

9-12.30 complete scene and email to K

12.30 -3 mtg and discussion with R  

3-5 work on history walk

practice 

eat healthy meal

6.30 walk to town

7-9 ringing 

11 bed