stop procrastinating

1. Reiki on Tuesday
2. Elections class on Wednesday
3. Dr appt on Thursday
4. Try cleaning the bathroom
5. Wash enough laundry so that the dirty clothes are no longer spilling out of the hamper and onto the floor

1. Start paying February bills
2. Check bank accounts and statements
3. Endure four days at the office
4. Keep Thursday appointment
5. Tape Top Gear Monday and Life on Mars season finale Tuesday – PS BBC America, can we get the North Pole special this year? Watching on YouTube is good only for so much.
6. Bring boxes to storage unit
7. Mail Morgan’s book

Edited on 27 Jan to add: Everything completed except #3 – only had to spend three days at office, fourth day was spent at three medical appointments. I am on four different meds right now….whee…

1. Renew library books on Wednesday
2. Tape Life on Mars Tuesday
3. Keep Thursday appointment
4. Call United Health re: precertification
5. Get oil change for car

If I’m diligent, most of these will be done by Tuesday evening…

Edited Tuesday evening to add: all of these except Task 4 have been completed – go me!

1. Tape Life On Mars on Tuesday
2. Keep Thursday appointment

I’m keeping it simple this week. I think I’m coming down with the flu, or at the very least, the need-to-stay-out-of-the-office-for-two-months illness.

1. Deposit Christmas money
2. Keep appointment with A on Thursday
3. Renew library books on Friday or return them
4. Find yoga mat, in vain hopes of taking yoga classes in 2008

Edited on 7 Jan 08 to add:
These were all completed – it just took me two weeks to do this.

(Because I finished last week’s three things!)

1. Balance my checkbook
2. Pay bills due in January
3. Appt with AA on Thursday

Edited on 12/29 to add:
Still have to do 1, did half of 2, completed 3…

Edited on 12/30 to add:
1 and 3 are completed, and 2 will be done by Wednesday…

The only way to get this done is to have specific tasks I need to accomplish. So I need to get done, by Saturday the 22nd:

1. Wrapping my mother’s Christmas presents
2. Mailing my grandmother’s Christmas present
3. Giving the extra cat food to Mary

I made the mistake of coasting after I got caught up on those tasks at home. Instead of continuing the trend of finishing items as they came up, I’d delay one item, then I’d delay working on two. Then it built up into another pile of things to get done. I have to realize that I can’t fall back on my old habit of putting things off just because I got a lot of things done. I have to find new methods that will keep me organized.

The serious tasks are done – income taxes are filed and I am getting refunds, hooray! My next step in conquering my procrastination will be to complete some of the projects I’ve started and then abandoned. The first one will be a scarf I started knitting for my Mom back in November. I’d like to have it finished for next November, at least!

I am actually completing the backlog of tasks I had to do around the house. I just have a few tasks left, such as filing income taxes, mending holes in clothes, and going through the pile of mail on my desk, before I will be caught up. But it’s getting there!