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.

Thursday 5th September, 2013

2 September, 2013 - 5:35am - movingalong
Thursday 5th September, 2013
"I don't want to reach the end of my life
and regret not having given my days
everything in me to make them worthwhile."

-- Diana Nyad, swimmer, in 2011

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"I got three messages:
One is: We should never ever give up.
Two is: You're never too old to chase your dreams.
Three is: It looks like a solitary sport, but it's a team."

-- Diana Nyad, upon emerging from the ocean onto the beach,
after being the first (verified) person to swim from Cuba to Florida
without the aid of a shark cage or fins.
Length of swim: 110.4 miles (177.7 km)
Duration of swim: nearly 53 hours,
from August 31 - September 2, 2013.
Her age: 64.

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"We all have dreams.
And we all get disappointed.
We all have heartache and we suffer and work to get through it.
It's just the human condition. ...
So I stand here today so proud.
I'm so proud of my team and I'm so proud of myself."

-- Diana Nyad, at news conference the next day.

Note: She tried and failed this four times in her life -- over 35 years.
Finally succeeded -- in her fifth attempt -- at age 64.


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re: Diana Nyad

movingalong - 5 Sep 2013 - 12:57pm

To the curious:

I told you all you need to know in the thread-starter.

So you don't need to google anything.

:)

Back to work now :)

Marcelor's Thursday

marcelor - 5 Sep 2013 - 11:27am

Plan first. Observe tendency to reach for familiar escape routes. Pause and breathe. Be gentle to self.

 

Vic 9/5/13

vic - 5 Sep 2013 - 11:06am

Awesome starter Moving

show up (done), basics, set goals.

"When an issue or problem emerges and needs our attention, identify it
and openly discuss it with at least one safe person and God. Accept it.
Become willing to let go of it. Ask God to take it from us. Have a
change of heart by the willingness to make whatever amend is called for -
to do what is necessary to take care of ourselves. Take an appropriate
action to resolve the matter. Then let go of the guilt and shame.
"
 
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie
©1990 

clement ci - day 300 attempting abstinence, 220 from self

clement - 5 Sep 2013 - 10:29am


Resisting...the...urge...to...google...diana...nyad...

Except i would use DuckDuckGo cuz they dont track you like google does.

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. AA Big Book says to rely on God. Quoted in my bookmarks : scroll down to "AA Big Book on fears : relying on God not self-reliance:"

  • I have come to believe that it is more important to maintain sobriety of relying on God than to get things done.
    • "15 Points" point 5 says:
      5. Develop and rehearse a daily plan of thinking and acting by which you will live that day relying on God, regardless of what may upset you or how hard the old urge to rely on self may hit you.

      My Plan is this:

      1. read "15 Points"
      2. Meditate for 5 min on the attributes of God

ci
start timers
v task
cL
time log
quiet time
r task
s task
t task
11am pa phone mtg
sort tasks
j task
do tasks
put away clothes
abstinence day counts
reflection
pre-plan tmrw

When we retire at night, we constructively review our day (BB).
  • Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid?
  • Do we owe an apology?
  • Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once?
  • Were we kind and loving toward all?
  • What could we have done better?
  • Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time?
  • Or, were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life?

THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR (everything i "did well" comes from god, either thru gifts he's given me or the way he's transformed me)

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

jays thursday 5 september

jay - 5 Sep 2013 - 5:25am

people say motivation won't last. neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily

zig ziglar

washing up and tidy kitchen 3 x 10 mins

smoothie

then make paln for week

clear desk

KF checkin thurs 5th Sept 08:40

knitfisher - 5 Sep 2013 - 6:41am

Today I have already: 

  • Had a good breakfast (thanks to DH)
  • Had a shower
  • put wash on
Today I will: 
  • Unload dw
  • hang washing
  • washing in
  • order currency
  • finish SD work (as far as possible) done 2 poms
  • email SD client
  • invoice SD client
  • Posted pics of item to sell
  • Finish w work YE
  • do monthly w work
  • Setup x for ff?
  • start study (make notes)
  • have LUNCH
  • have a walk
  • If you have time, do budget (I like doing it... ;-) )
  • Smile, because you are doing really well this week, even though there are still things that are not going well.

Prometheu's check in

Prometheus - 5 Sep 2013 - 12:08am

Tomorow:

 

Goals

Bed no later than 10 pm.

Write 3 positive things that happened during the day.

Use ABCDE optimism method in journal.

 

Wake up at 6h40 

7h-7h50 Thesis

8h-8h50 Thesis

9h-9h50 Thesis

10h-10h50 Thesis

11h-11h50 Thesis

12h-13h Dinner and nap

13h-13h50 Reading FoM

14h-14h50 Reading FlP

15h-15h50 Reading Undecided

 Clean rooms

 

Thursday

jalla - 5 Sep 2013 - 6:03pm

Wow what an inspirational athlete-great quotes-thanks movingalong.

  • readings
  • tidy
  • pack rehab bag
  • call a & L re meeting
  • water plants
  • rest
  • pool & rehab x
  • pick up printing x
  • accounts
  • photocopying sheet mpx
  • rest
  • 6 poms notes into ad
  • input reciepts 1 hourx
  • dinner
  • email t
  • email m 
  • email or skype d
  • call px &s  x& a 
  • rehab excercises
  • laundry
  • HIO

Mole's real check in

Mole - 5 Sep 2013 - 7:11am

Thanks for alerting me to my leap to Friday, movingalong. I was totally transfixed by the thread starter!

7.30 cafe with D

9 -12 spend time with writing 

eat healthy lunch

pack muse material 

1.30 - 3.30 project at prov

Walk to town - yellows, browns

fish 

work on CV

5 Tower with D

home and eat healthy meal 

declutter

wash up

check in

bed by 11

THINGS I DID WELL TODAY

i FELTwell so things went well. Lucky me. 

I resisted a couple of ppurchases

I have enjoyed an evening without watching anything 

THINGS I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER

I'm not going there, inner critic is on enforced leave 

THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR 

movingalongs quote 'you are never too old to chase your dreams'

very very grateful for feeling so much better today 

D for his ppatience

the artist with the baby who enthused about putting me in touch with a friend of hers

the bus driver wh waited as I panted to the bus stop

Singing in the rain

the cool change

the book of poems that arrived in the post

 

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movingalong - 3 Sep 2013 - 5:28pm

oops posted wrong place

My Day Today

lennon - 5 Sep 2013 - 10:34pm

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

I want to thank movingalong for starting this trend.

Things I will do today

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

2. Take shower

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

4. Get dressed

5. Prepare and eat breakfast

6. Go to group therapy at 9 a.m.

7. Go to the library and print out material

8. Go to the 12 noon telephone ACA meeting

9. Go to the 1 p.m. telephone DA meeting

10. Go to the taped CLA meeting

11. Call my Al-Anon sponsor at 4 p.m.

12. Cook and eat dinner

13. Go to the 6:45 p.m. telephone OA meeting

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

15. Go to the 9 p.m. telephone OA meeting

16. Go to the 9 p.m. online EA meeting

17. Go to the 9:50 p.m. telephone UA meeting

Thanks for letting me share