Stay motivated and follow through on my commitments

...I was busy before! Ha!

I’m all jazzed up following a successful event I organized. Now, how do I bottle this up to pull out again later when I need the motivation???

I tend to get the vital things done and let the rest go. I’m ready to start giving up some of my commitments instead.

I have almost 6 solid hours “free” (meaning I don’t have to be someplace), which is a rarity for me. I have soooo much to do today, way more than 6 hours worth, but I have zero motivation. I don’t know where to start, and I don’t really want to do any of it. I’m not quite sure what to do with myself.

Tomorrow I have to compile our organization’s newsletter. It may not sound like a big job, but with something like this my perfectionistic tendencies kick in and nearly paralyze me. Fortunately I got some help tonight from a friend—she gave me some input on the articles I wrote and together we edited another person’s articles. Now all I have to do is copy in some other information and then lay it all out. It’s nothing fancy, but I’m sure it will prove to be more difficult than it looks.

...doing lousy on this one. I’m going to try really hard to get caught up on the critical things tomorrow.

Have I ever sunk myself in deep this time!!! I’m going to be one terribly busy person for the foreseeable future.
:( How do I manage to get myself in charge of all of these things???

So you all stop talking to me for a while, ok? ;-)

I have been procrastinating several major projects for far too long. I think the problem is that I was not ready for this position when I accepted it, so I do not feel confident enough in my ability to live up to my responsibilities. It’s the perfectionist thing, I think.

To compound the problem, I have several other personal projects I want to get started on, but I don’t feel I should dedicate the time to them when I have these other outstanding obligations. Therefore, I do nothing at all. I need to find a way to get over the hump.

I tend to become over-extended. But I have taken on a number of responsibilities, for better or worse, and I intend to see them through. I need to find a way to maintain my motivation.