Wednesday 28 November 2012

starting now in chat...

So far, I've been following the daily plan. More for today: 

• LG - 2 1 more of PS; BL - 2 + pp. 13-50, 51-84 (start)
• LR - RoA
• sort cs, ncp, dinner, Dad's ornmt, 1 more ornmt, vacuum l/r closet
• laundry, tree skirt  

Good morning world

1. Prep for meeting with L and M
2. Teach class  

3. Research / Prep for meeting with L tomorrow

4. Billing if receipts are ready  Receipts weren't ready

This is a life experiment at abstinence from procrastination. To my knowledge, there's no definition of what abstinence from procrastination means, and several have been suggested on this board. I am trying : abstinence from unplanned time. I have a tendency to jump on bandwagons and so I will only know how this experiment is going when I can look back after 1 month, 3 months, 9 months, 1 year. The idea that every minute of my life will be planned seems suffocatingly restrictive to me. But Step 3 is "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God." and that step will return us to sanity ( Step 2 ). I have come to believe that subjecting all my time and tasks to a plan is subjecting them to God's will. I intend to always ask, what does God want me to do today? What does god want me to do next? And whatever that answer is, I intend to do nothing other. At this point in my faith journey, I accept a life entirely submitted to God's will.

10:28am : it's been 1h 35min approx since i last went off plan. Am feeling resistance for upcoming plan. Even tho i know it's best. And i have a mtg at 11 so i gotta be on time. No time to delay. I dont feel i have the power to do this, so i ask God to help me.

9:39pm : it's been 5 min since i last went off plan. New beginning. Today my struggle is my mind wandering w/o me realizing it. rather than deliberately making choices i know are not best for me / God's will. I am going to plan, chat and InstanBoss.

first wk task.

Good morning people.

Still spinning and up to my ass in alligators so I'll be brief.

It's 10:21 here and I'm going to go into the shop until lunch.

I'll try the Pomodoro timing tool and see how it works.

OK,then.

Thanks

Thanks, movingalong and chickadee!

Things have been going well the past few days in terms of productivity, but that was mostly because I had a big project to complete. Now, I'm back in my "weeds" of answering e-mails, dealing with mail, excavating forgotten projects from my desk...

Here's the plan for the day:

8:45-9:45: all email inboxes as close to zero as possible

9:45-4:45 work (clean desk, open enroll, start on to-dos)

4:45-6:00 copy, mail, buy envelopes and boxes

6:00-6:30 mail on stairs

6:30-7:30 make and eat dinner, potatoes for tomorrow

7:30-8 make banana bread

8-9 clean/prep for tomorrow/shower

9-10 lang, read

Have a great, productive day today, everybody! 

Good morning!   Working from home today.  I am grateful for the oppportunity to work from home on some days and I will work hard to be worthy of my employer's trust. 

I have several meetings today, and I want to work on my major project, my documentation project, and do that Christmas order that I have postponed for 3 days now.  I also need to run out and pick up my dog's medication at lunchtime. 

Right now, I will exercise for half an hour, have a healthy breakfast and get dressed in work-from-home clothes.   I'll be back here to make a structured todo list and schedule at 9 am.  

Thanks for being here.  

Update 11:15 :  Todo list done, 2 meetings done - one easy, one difficult.   Now I'm going to have a coffee and get dressed - I'm still in my exercise clothes :).   Next, call the vet and make sure I can pick up doggy meds at noon.   If so, head up there at 11:45 and that will be my lunch break. 

After vet, work on major project - review logs and gen.   By the time I am done with that it will be time for next meeting.  I'll check back about 3pm with progress report (or lack thereof lol)

Update 1:30 The vet's office was closed at lunch - luckily I called ahead.   Did I get work done instead of going to the vet?   No, I ate an unhealthy lunch instead and got completely off track.   Will I let this ruin the rest of the day?   No I will not.   I know that sudden schedule changes often throw me for a loop, as it did today.   No prob.  I'm putting it behind me and moving forward.   I'm in a conference call now and I'll go ahead and start reviewing logs for my major project while the conference call is going on.

Update 10 pm I ended up working on major project for the entire day, which is fine.   I can't work on it much the rest of the week because the vendor will be unavailable.  I finally, like JUST NOW, did the Christmas order.   I kept putting it off I think because I didn't want to spend the money, but hell it's gotta be done .  

Jo 

Let your purpose rule your day - Steve Chandler

I will call in to the meeting.

I will do 20 minutes of Yoga

I will make and eat breakfast

I will be present in seeing my partner off to work.

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the
don'ts.  Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.  Listen to
the never haves, then listen close to me...  Anything can happen, child.
Anything can be"

Shel Silverstein

Thanks Movingalong for the text for the day. Grateful to hve found this room.

I woke up late today. This made me decide I need to be in bed by 22:00 hrs pm, or 23:00 hrs pm at the latest. Then I can journal and read.

Now I need to forgive myself for getting up so late.

Today I will:

1) plan talk & practise it 5 pomos minimum

2) go to gym & yoga practise shortly at home & other sport too is possible

3) do a minimum of 3 items om list of to do items  

4) attend meeting tonight on skype (meeting starts qute late so be mindful to g to bed straight after meeting)

5) do morning routine before starting on nr 1 or any of the above despite the fact that it is not morning, i.e. pray, meditate, and get right motivation and be mindful

Calypso

Woke in good time. I'm tired and fed up. With the programme I shall be up and doing rather than lying in or on my bed feeling sorry for myself.

Done:
Up prayer and reflection
Checked emails and posts

Todo:
x Check post when/if it comes
x Out to get some food as I have nearly run out
x Tidy kitchen and be in for landlord's maintenance person this afternoon
x Finish sorting landlord's file even if I don't get info from other tenant - I did a really good job of this and it was difficult and I had been putting it off for ages. It is not finished but I chose to stop and intend to finish it tomorrow
x Work on book and travel file - very little

and

French study
Constructive mostly work related conversation with friend on phone
Finalized food delivery for tomorrow which will keep me going in most things until the New Year
Wrote my journal

So now

Prayer and reflection
Bed and sleep

Night Rexroth 22.23

That will do for now

Regards Rexroth

thanks moving along!

• readings




• HIO




• meet sponsor




• go U print out all l docs
• email m
• call in script
• add in database journals so far
• do 10 more journals
• call b re appt




• accounts




• journal




• go to meeting 
• gym and pool
• change pin
• banking
• pharmacy pickup
• pickup posters
• bithday card d
• edit ms paper
• decide how to handle M situation
• HIO
• decide if going to concert? 
• dinner
• u course get stuff out and ready
• relax
• HIO