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.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
friday 30/5/2014
people say motivation won't last. neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily
zig ziglar
smoothie
wash up
make bed
tablet draw
email v
phone mum
filling
s filling
shredding
finances projection
office organise
drawings
clothes organise
pick up stb- wash- bin
put rubbish out
text m---this eve
wash hair
clear emails
evernote
re: and still I rise ...
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
. . . . I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
. . . . I rise
-- Maya Angelou
. . April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014
(movingalong)
Love her. M. Angelou aka, now, M. Angel
My most favorite:
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
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Maya Angelou,
Letter to My Daughter
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can
decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's
cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not
like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been
thinking. You might find a new solution.”
―
Maya Angelou,
Letter to My Daughter
Vic 5.29.14
Maintenance tasks, do what works
"You must act your way into right thinking, you cannot think your way into right acting." AA Slogan
Thursday May 29, 2014
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone meeting, and my life.
Things I will do today
1. Test blood sugar2. Go to the 5:55 a.m. telephone ACA meeting3. Go to the 6:45 a.m. telephone OA meeting
4. Go to the 7 a.m. telephone DA meeting
5. Cook and eat breakfast
6. Wipe the inside of the stove
7. Wipe the bathroom
8. Mop the floor
9. Go to the 8:30 a.m. telephone UA meeting10. Go to the 9 a.m. telephone ACA meeting
11. Go to the 9:45 a.m. telephone UA meeting
12. Go to the 11 a.m. telephone PA meeting
13. Prayer and meditation morning and evening
14. Go to the 12 noon telephone ACA meeting
15. Go to the 1 p.m. telephone DA meeting
16. Go to my mom's apartment17. Go to the store18. Wash and dry clothes
19. Put clothes away
20. Do numbers
21. Cook and eat dinner
22. Go to the 6:45 p.m. telephone OA meeting
23. Go to the 7:30 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
24. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting25. Go to the 9 p.m. online EA meetingThanks for letting me share
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5.28.14 CI Babarino
email (done)
prep for meeting tongith
(done)
prep for thur conf call (done)
letter 1
letter 2
call JJ
(left vm)
Wednesday May 28, 2014
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone meeting, and my life.
Things I will do today
1. Go to the 7 a.m. telephone DA meeting
2. Test blood sugar
3. Cook and eat breakfast
4. Go to the 8:30 a.m. telephone UA meeting
5. Go to the 9 a.m. telephone ACA meeting
6. Go to the 9:45 a.m. telephone CLA activity line
7. Clean bathroom
8. Clear tables
9. Go to the 11 a.m. telephone PA meeting
10. Prayer and meditation morning and evening
11. Go to the 12 noon telephone Al-Anon meeting
12. Go to the 1:30 p.m. telephone UA meeting
13. Go to the 3 p.m. telephone CLA meeting
14. Wash and dry clothes
15. Put clothes away
16. Cook and eat dinner
17. Go to the 6:45 p.m. telephone OA meeting
18. Go to the 7:30 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
19. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting
20. Go to the 9 p.m. online EA meeting
21. Go to the 9:30 p.m. telephone CLA meeting
22. Test blood sugarThanks for letting me share
wednesday
wednesday
emailsemail Dreply c emaildiarywrite cardtidy roomlaundryreadingsfilingfind d lettermeditationbagaccountsbask m for recieptsmspost d articlem listVic 5.27.14
Maintenance tasks, do what works
act as if..
Re: Loving frees us from inner prison so we can be in action
"Then there is the other kind of idler, the idler despite himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action who does nothing because his hands are tied, because he is, so to speak, imprisoned somewhere, because he lacks what he needs to be productive, because disastrous circumstances have brought him forcibly to this end.
Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason! I know that I could be a quite a different person! How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be?
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
You cannot always tell what keeps you confined, what immures you, what seems to bury you, and yet you can feel those elusive bars, railings, walls. Is all this illusion, imagination? I don't think so. And then one asks: My God! will it be for long, will it be for ever, will it be for eternity?
Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives."
--Vincent Van Gogh
re: the art of activating your dreams
"If you hear a voice within you say
'You cannot paint'
then by all means paint
and that voice will be silenced."
-- Vincent Van Gogh
@ movingalong
Thanks movingalong for all the great inspiring posts and for keeping us informed about the site repair. Have a great dayxo
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woops double post!
hazyjane ci Tuesday May 27th
I heard a snatch of a radio program yesterday and there were two women talking about motorbike riding; and the instructor had told one of them 'not to look at the fence', because the bike would go where you looked towards, and the other woman said, 'yes, but saying that makes you LOOK at the fence, doesn't it?!?!', and the upshot was, forget about the thing you have to avoid/not crash into and look where you want to go. So I have just sung myself a little ditty and I am going to look at, stare at, where I want to GO. Which is, COMPLETION. Handing in those three/four essays that need to be submitted before i can relax and enjoy my summer (and let's not relax too hard this time hey?)...
Bursting to begin, eye on the finish.
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It's an inside job...
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5.27.14 Babarino CI
15 min. clean desk (done) (ended up doing a couple of these)
two emails re: assignments
(done)
meeting (done)
fax (done)
email clean up
Tuesday May 27, 2014
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone meeting, and my life.
Thiings I have done today
1. Went to the 5:45 a.m. telephone ACA meeting2. Went to the 6:45 a.m. telephone OA meeting3. Went to the 7 a.m. telephone DA meetingThings I will do today
1. Test blood sugar
2. Cook and eat breakfast
3. Go to the 8:30 a.m. telephone UA meeting4. Go to the 9 a.m. telephone ACA meeting
5. Go to the 9:45 a.m. telephone CLA activity line
6. Go to the 11 a.m. telephone PA meeting7. Go to the store8. Go to the 1 p.m. telephone CLA business meeting
9. Wipe the inside of the stove
10. Clear tables
11. Go to the 3 p.m. telephone DA meeting
12. Do some ACA work
13. Put clothes away
14. Do numbers
15. Warm up and eat dinner
16. Go to the 6 p.m. telephone OA meeting
17. Go to the 7 p.m. telephone OA meeting
18. Go to the 8:30 p.m. telephone ACA meeting
19. Go to the 9 p.m. online EA meeting
19. Test blood sugar
Thanks for letting me share
RisingUp Tuesday May 27th
I decided (Step 3) this morning my goal for today is simply this:
Seek Jesus at the Center of the Cross today.
Perfectionism is the disease that will lead to my destruction if I don't aim for balance in the center. So instead of engaging the flip side reaction of perfectionism with neglect and avoidance ... I will disengage altogether from the sick cycle of perfectionism by Seeking First the Kingdom of God, knowing all things will be added to me this way. Not in my own strength because I can never be perfect—only God is.
"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." (Matthew 6:33, 34 NKJV)
Thank you Lord.
Easy does it. Aim for center. Your Will today, Lord. Amen.
"Surrender & Take the Next Action Toward Center"
(because linear progress from left to right does not work for me and only causes more perfectionistic pressure leading to more procrastination! Bypass the cycle altogether by seeking God in the center)
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Monday afternoon
readingsmeditationcall vHIOdiarylogInnertruth's check-in for Monday, May 26
MIT
Other
email DP campaignPut laundry awayWash dishesVic 5.26.14
Maintenance tasks, do what works
without the strong root,they soon wither.
The higher the growth up the deeper must
be the enrooting.
Monday May 26, 2014
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, and my life.
Things I will do today
1. Test blood sugar
2. Wash dishes
3. Cook and eat breakfast
4. Prayer and meditation morning and evening
5. Wash and dry clothes
6. Clean bathroom
7. Clear tables
8. Warm up and eat dinner
9. Go to the 7 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
8. Go to the 7:30 telephone CLA activity line
9. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting
10. Go to the 9 p.m. online EA meeting
Thanks for letting me share
Sunday
Sunday afternoon
readingsmeditationtidyget readylaundrypodcastreply emailsreply Jresearch fpresearch dcdinner prepdinnerVic 5.25.14
Maintenance.Do what works.
Sunday May 25, 2014
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, and my life.
Things I have done today
1. Went to the 5:55 a.m. telephone ACA meeting2. Took my blood sugarThings I will do today
1. Go to the 6:45 a.m. telephone OA meeting2. 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 DA meeting
5. Go to the 9:50 a.m. telephone CLA activity line
6. Cook and eat breakfast
7. Go to the 11 a.m. telephone Al-Anon meeting
8. Clean bathroom
9. Clear tables
10. Scrub floor
11. Cook and eat dinner
13. Go to the 7 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
14. Go to the 7:30 p.m. online EA meeting
15. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting
16. Go to the 9 p.m. telephone CLA business meeting
17. Test blood sugarThanks for letting me share
jays sunday 25 may
people say motivation won't last. neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily
zig ziglar
today is tidy up house day, posting to make me do it, using timer
DO NOT GET DISTRACTED. DON'T THINK! DO!
KITCHEN
wash up 10 x 3
scrub sink
tidy kitchen
clean fridge
clean dryer
clean washer
wash bin
hoover/wash floor *leave this til clothes washing done
goal---kitchen done by 12 midday
LATE
BEDROOM
fresh sheets on bed
hang clothes
pack (s) clothes in cupboard
clear desking table
tablet draw/ sort tablets in organiser 3 x 10 mins
dust
hoover
tidy coat/shoe cupboard
GOAL BEDROOM DONE BY 2.30
BATHROOM
wash bath
wash toilet
clear toiletries, only leave in what is used
wash floor
GOAL BATHROOM DONE BY 4
LIVING ROOM
clear floor
bin quilt/ect
clear desk/desk draw/file/office/shread
get shredding ready (!) OUT
dust
hoover
AIM LIVING ROOM DONE BY 7
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hazyjane check-in sunday 25th May
today is the day I get this work done: do or die!
Plus I have tickets for a matinee, and I want to be able to feel I deserve to go :)
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It's an inside job...
May 24 and ok go please
--------//Inside duties
laundry for days
parents anniversary
choir calendar
pantheon MAMP GitHub.
vacuum
Sweep
clean surfaces and dust
filing and budget
feline subQ
-----------outside duties
ride bike?
clean dad's car?
ace hardware for some reason
swimming?
The city any reason?
Mani pedi?
Farmers market now
Gnothi Seauton ~ Know Thyself
Saturday
@jalla
YES, AMEN. XO
Saturday afternoon
readingstidynbdinner prepdinnerrehab excercisesrestHIOSaturday May 24, 2014
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, and my life.
Things I will do today
1. Test blood sugar
2. Cook and eat breakfast
3. Go to the 8:30 a.m. telephone UA meeting
4. Go to the 9 a.m. telephone ACA meeting
5. Go to the 9:45 a.m. telephone CLA activity line
6. Go to the 10 a.m. telephone DA meeting
7. Go to the 11:15 a.m. telephone DA workshop
8. Get medicine ready for the next two weeks9. Prayer and meditation morning and evening
10. Go to the 12 noon telephone DA meeting
11. Clean the top of my stove
12. Clean my refrigerator
13. Clean my bathroom
14. Clear my tables
15. Scrub my floor
16. Cook and eat dinner
17. Go to the 7 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
18. Go to the 7:30 p.m. face to face NA meetingThanks for letting me share
Vic 5.24.14
Maintenance.Do what works.
Vic 5.23.14
Maintenance.Do what works.
Shawn Achor’s extensive research and other recent discoveries in the field
of positive psychology have shown that this formula is completely
backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. (see his book The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work for more).
What are the five key steps that we can take each day to increase our experience of happiness?
1) Bring gratitude to mind – Write down three NEW things that you are grateful for each day
2) Journal – About a positive experience you’ve had recently for 2 minutes once a day
3) Exercise – Engage in 15 minutes of mindful cardio activity
4) Meditate – Watch your breath go in and out for 2 minutes a day and
5) Engage in a random, conscious act of kindness – Write a 2-minute positive email thanking a friend or colleague, or compliment someone you admire on social media
Do these steps for 21 days, and you will begin to see a lasting shift in your mindset towards more positivity.
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Innertruth's check-in for Friday
Call Dr. T.
Friday afternoon
readingswitidydiaryloglist health storenbreply cask m re vsemail m recieptswrite cardstidyldinner preplaundry awaypack rehab bagbo feehealth storeFriday May 23, 2014
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone meeting, and my life.
Things I will do today
1. Test blood sugar
2. Cook and eat breakfast
3. Go to the 8:30 a.m. telephone CLA meeting
4. Go to the 9:45 a.m. telephone UA meeting
5. Go to the 10 a.m. telephone DA meeting
6. Go to the 11 a.m. telephone PA meeting
7. Prayer and meditation morning and evening
8. Go to the 12 noon telephone ACA meeting
9. Go to the 1 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
10. Go to the 2 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
11. Get medicine ready for the next two weeks
12. Cleared the table
13. Cleaning the refrigerator
14. Cleaning the stove
15. Get mail
16. Cook and eat dinner
17. Go to the 7 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
18. Go to the 7:30 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
19. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting
20. Go to the 10 p.m. telephone DA meeting
21. Test blood sugar
Thanks for letting me share
hazyjane check-in friday 23rd may
I am feeling really really stuck. And I hate it. I want to break out of it so badly, but I just find myself sitting here, not starting, then making false starts... reviewing what I've done so far and finding it pathetic, knowing what I have to do to change it and then not doing it, or forgetting to try it that way and just reverting to the old, painful, getting-nowhere-fast way.
I have GOT to get a plan down, and stick to it. Just ten minutes and then I'll have a break at 12.30.
My plan is not actually a plan... why is this such a struggle????????? I expect to be inspired!!!! Anyway, I'm going to have a break...
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It's an inside job...
KF check in Friday 23rd May
A long time since I've been here. I turn here whenever I have time working at home (as opposed to client site) and I have varied tasks to get on with and I don't feel like I know how to proceed and I'm worried I will fall into procras. So here I am.
And then after writing that I went to FB then Twitter and lost 25 mins. *sigh*
Change E & P PWPay HD moneyEmail W re: bankSend email to GEOrder examschool needs to do it. Better do mock then... ;-)Email HHang washingVic 5.22.14
Maintainence. Do what works.