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 13th January 2013

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. -Unknown

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Sunday

1.  Went to social event at art museum

2.  Bought things downtown

3.  Spent too much time downtown futzing around

4.  Came to work to do charity newsletter and special project

5.  Still waiting but will leave now to do newsletter 

6.  Shouldn't answer phone to be aggravated by roomates 

gotmusikk's Sunday

Progress, not perfection.
Consistency over emergencies.
Do the thing that feels healthy, not "shouldy" or escapist.

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Check-in @ P.A.
Process my inbox completely

journal
meditate 15 mins.
shower/dress

Complete 1 cycle of 15 minutes each of:
-- dishes
-- clean
-- back exercise/practice
-- massage

Appointments:

If there’s time after I complete what’s listed above, I will select 2 activities and cycle them in 15 minute bursts.

Things I did well today:

Things I can improve on:

3 things I’m grateful for:
1)
2)
3)

__________________________

"Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?"

-- Pema Chodron

Vic 1/13/13

 Show up (done), plan, exer

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Thomas Merton 

Get Some Results By Evening

Explore data

Review code .do file

Trim Sample

Merge datasets

Code variables

Define estimation goals

Define specification

run basic specification

run full specificaitons

review results

create results table

Dinner

Attend 12-step meeting

Write 2-sentences for results

Review current abstract

Write full draft of abstract

Rework Intro + Conclusion

Send to editing buddy

Check abstract submission process on conference website 

Coding

From one coding procrastinator to another:

Have a fruitful Sunday! 

kromer 3:15 CI

Finish all refs except the soma/germ section (working on this now)
Finish list of action steps
Check on expts z
Start PCRs (will do this soon)
Prepare package (will do this soon)
Call AG

Read jc paper
re-certify for taxes (will do this soon)
grocery shopping

late sunday check in

evening

 

  • tidy
  • readings
  • bedroom 1 and 2
  • laundry
  • make dinner
  • organise journals
  • js sort
  • write letter oj2
  • type up reciepts
  • read articles(at least 5) and make notes
  • step writing half hour
  • plan for writng this week
  • plan for js this week
  • rehab excercises and weights

 

Kodos

Thanks, Jalla, for the starter, and good morning/afternoon, everyone else. 

Day 2 of "Get My Stuff Together" Weekend. Spent about 45 min. surfing this morning, but I feel like it's out of my system. I do feel like I'll need a nap at some point today, so I'll try to work that in.

I'll check in at 10, 12 and 2:30. 

 

ms sunday

 

  • clean bedroom 
  • email ba schedule for all tuts
  • email ext schedule for next week
  • bursts of asses, t here. 1,2,3,4,5,6
  • eat with mindfulness and self care. and with some vegtables.
  • no napping
  • watch spending 

 

riddled's ToDos

  • work on presentation for Monday
  • dress to the nines
  • leave on time for theater

(I got theater tickets for Xmas, and I'm always having trouble wearing anything but the jeans-t-shirt-sneakers uniform. But looking forward to the evening!)

Sun 13th Jan by Hooch

Visitors are coming at 15h on Sunday and somehow this place has to become more welcoming and less sort of ... stirred in appearance.

(I like the thread starter Jalla. Somehow it should make sense. Practice makes improvement)

 

General

clean kitchen

clean bathroom

vac hall

empty bins outside

 

living room

 vacuum

tidy shelves [Not a hope]

tidy settee

 

 bedroom

make bed

vacuum

put away clothes [well I flung them into a big box, not sure this totally counts]

 

Foodstuff

prepare potatoes

prep veg

other cooking

set table

 

12:50 (2hrs 10 mins to go) and the question is.. why did I not do some of these things _yesterday_?

 

23:30 it was quite a nice evening. I was a bit stressed due to being very rushed. Why dont I do things beforehand, why Hooch?

 

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 jalla for starting this trend.

Things I will do today

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

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

3. Go to the 8 a.m. telephone OA meeting

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

5. Cook and eat breakfast

6. Have a PRG

7. Go to the store

8. Wash clothes

9. Warm up and eat lunch

10. Cook and eat dinner

11. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting

12. Go to the PA workshop at 9 p.m.

Thanks for letting me share

Mole's check-in

That's certainly a great motivating message to take with as I try to plan my year. Thank you jalla.nAnd great to find a thread starter for Sunday up so early.

water garden 

8 walk to B&G

vegie market

9.30 Tower

10 F with band 

11.30 home

cook (and for tonight?)

eat 

exercises

planning

4.30 walk with B

K for meal ?

8.30 movies

bed by 11.30