...after spending the afternoon and evening searching through paperwork. Please excuse me while I scream out loud…

::Arrrrrggggghhhhh!::

I think I’ll go celebrate with a nice long relaxing bubblebath.

It took all week, but I sorted through one box of old papers.

Making this entry helps me feel more like celebrating. Re-reading my last entry from a month ago, I can realize that I have made some progress, even if it is painfully s l o w.

Tonight my office floor no longer looks like this.

Instead, the papers that were on the floor, combined with some other papers, are sorted into 6 cardboard boxes.

One of the boxes has some hanging file folders in it, so that box is further sorted into about 6 files right now.

There’s a lot of purging yet to be done. That’s a hard thing for me. I hope to work on it tomorrow. But right now, it’s time to celebrate.

GOTTA LOVE IT!

Ok,off to my next baby (morphing itself into GIANT!) step!

To get through all my mini-tasks.

I am finding it helps to keep me focus and work on my entire list, which works for me.

Might frustrate the heck out of that style of person who has to work on one thing until it is completed.

For me, it is about re-thinking and outsmarting the law of diminishing returns.

:-)

Wow. That sounds like a scholar, doesn’t it?

I’ve had problems with procrastination for a long time now. That’s why I’m here on 43-Things.

A couple of years ago, a friend was trying to help me become more accountable and procrastinate less. She suggested that I write down 3 goals each morning and report them to her via a phone message. Then, in the evening, I was to report on whether or not I’d accomplished my 3 goals. I tried the experiment for a couple of weeks, and by the end I’d failed miserably. Some days I wasn’t getting anything done on my list, and some days I wasn’t even bothering to make a list. Finally, greatly frustrated, my friend (who appears to be very well-organized) suggested that we end the experiment, because she felt I was wasting my time and hers, and that I wasn’t really committed. I felt upset and frustrated and ashamed. She is still my friend, but we stopped discussing my daily goals and my procrastination for a long time.

Then a year ago, I created this goal of Each morning write down 3 goals for Today
here on 43-Things, so I could be more accountable to myself (and to my friends here too). Obviously, I haven’t done it every single day. And there are many days when I fail to do any of my 3 goals. And I now better understand my friend, because I can become greatly frustrated with myself, and accuse myself of wasting my own time. It often doesn’t feel like I’m making much progress, if any. But at least I’m still doing it a year later, and making the effort more days than not. That seems like a babystep worth celebrating.

So…I’ll celebrate the steps we’ve taken!

We’ve gotten everything out of storage. We’ve gotten almost everything from my PILs’ house. Tonight we made the kitchen more livable/usable. That’s a good step right there!

published Daily Passion Activator, blogged, cried a little bit.

Now I need to make some phone calls. Do my homework and do that sweeping and mopping I talked about earlier.

I did dishes and cleaned countertops and could have easily fell into an unproductive state. Instead, I took my time and used some of the Remembrance work to stay focused on what is good, what is right, what is holy.

I am definitely getting intuitive hits about business/service which I may have some time to work on (make that will be sure to create time to work on) later in the day.

Where did October go?!

so I am upping my ante and doing ye olde baby steps.

I have been deleting lots of photo files from my hard drive this morning and spending time reconnecting in the simplest form (commenting and interacting on myspace and facebook)

Now it is time to do some chores.

Going to wash dishes and sweep, plan to mop some of my hardwood floors today, too. Always love how that smells.

So for now – dishes are my main focus.

Ready? Set… wash!