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.

Saturday 30th March 2013

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Thomas Merton  

wishing you all surprising achievements, big or small. 

clement ci - day 140 attempting abstinence, 60 from self

Abstinence from unplanned time.

  • The one thing, the only thing, i can do impulsively is write something on my todo list.
  • The one thing, the only thing, i can do off plan is recovery, something to maintain my sobriety, when tempted. I have come to believe that it is more important to maintain sobriety than to get things done.

Abstinence from relying on self.

We reviewed our fears thoroughly. We put them on paper, even though we had no resentment in connection with them. We asked ourselves why we had them. Wasn't it because self-reliance failed us? Self-reliance was good as far as it went, but it didn't go far enough. Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it didn't fully solve the fear problem, or any other. When it made us cocky, it was worse.

Perhaps there is a better way - we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.

We never apologize to anyone for depending upon our Creator. We can laugh at those who think spirituality the way of weakness. Paradoxically, it is the way of strength. The verdict of the ages is that faith means courage. All men of faith have courage. They trust their God. We never apologize for God. Instead we let Him demonstrate, through us, what He can do. We ask Him to remove our fear and direct our attention to what He would have us be. At once, we commence to outgrow fear. p68 AA Big Book.

10:37am :
It's been 18hrs 42min since i last got distracted.
It's been 23hrs 37min since i last went on an off-plan bender >15min
It's been 2day 7hrs 37min since i last went on an off-plan bender >2hrs (6hrs).
It's been 4day 9hr07min since i last relied on self.
It's been 140 days since i last went on an off-plan bender >1day
It's been ~184 days since i last went on an off-plan bender >1week
These may not be the right durations. i'll think about them again on a designated break.

:) ci
:) start Instant Boss
:) v task
:) sched
:) quiet time
:) 11am pa phone mtg
:) sort tasks
:) j task
prj task
:) p.o.
:) deposits
:) pud wrk - power supplies, email
ka wrk - sat
ebands - mon?
p wrk
kuf wrk
client ku sat?
later: g wrk
later: ht task
put away clothes
reflection
pre-plan tmwr

THINGS I DID WELL TODAY

THINGS I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER

THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR

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

fall down seven times, get up eight - japanese proverb

bookmarks

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 Mole for starting this trend.

Things I will do today

1. Cook and eat breakfast

2. Get my medicine ready for the next two weeks

3. Call my NA sponsor

4. Declutter for 45 minutes

5. Take shower

6. Get dressed

7. Go to the 3 p.m. telephone PRG

8. Go to the 5 p.m. face to face NA meeting

9. Go to the Easter Vigil at 8:30 p.m.

Thanks for letting me share

Vic 3/30/13

Show up (done), exer,plan, use tools that work to get jobs done

Thx for starter Mole. goes with today's meditation The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie:

"Recovery does not equal abstention from life.
Recovery means learning to live and learning to live fully. Recovery
means exploration, investigation, and experimentation.

Recovery
means being done with the rigid, shame-based rules from the past, and
formulating healthy values based on self-love, love for others, and
living in harmony with this world.

Experiment.
Try something new. Maybe you won't like it. Maybe you'll make a
mistake. But maybe you will like it, and maybe you'll discover something
you love.

Today, I will give
myself permission to experiment in life. I will stop rigidly holding
myself back, and I will jump in when jumping in feels right. God, help
me let go of my need to deprive myself of being alive. "

 

ms saturday :)

thanks mole.

 

  • take excess to st
  • export again
  • take to g
  • test new one
  • go to rr
  • go to wc
  • 2 reports
  • do something social tonight

 

p

2 bottles of water 

Mole's check in

Hang out washing

prepare S's room

9-12 work on scenettes

walk to town via Eum

2 pick S up from bus

Go for lunch 

home and prep for E hunt

5.30 walk with C

bring in washing and put it away

eeat

finish prep for tomorrow

get stuff ready for rringing

practice pbm

Relax

bed by 11

THINGS I DID WELL TODAY

THINGS I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER

THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR 

Mole's check in

Sorry - doubled up