Posted by leeran on May 13, 2003, at 2:30:45
In reply to i need a kick in the butt!, posted by bookgurl99 on May 12, 2003, at 17:31:38
Hi there,
I'm a serious procrastinator full of self-loathing/self-recrimination about all the unfinished items on my "To Do" list.
HOWEVER, every time I can take the yellow highlighter and cross out one of those items I feel a great sense of accomplishment (with the right combination of medications I seem to be able to actually pick up the highlighter).
Sometimes the smallest tasks can be just as daunting as the larger ones (example, my son asked to mend one of his t-shirts - a ten minute job that I put off for a couple of weeks until I finally just sat down on the closet floor after everyone had gone to bed and did it - like you said - out of the embarrassment of not doing it sooner . . . ).
Someone here made a great suggestion of "due dates" for each paper with a breathing day before the 31st. I liked that idea and thought about giving myself due dates on some of the older items on my list.
So, from one procrastinator to another - onward and upward! After four strokes of the yellow highlighter you'll feel so relieved. Think about it! The incredible lightness of . . . doing!
In honor of your papers (and in an effort to not feel like too much of a hypocrite by writing a pep talk about getting things done) I will try to get four "biggies" crossed off my list by Friday (including a decision about dealing with our uninvited resident pigeons and calling the ant man - my personal sermon on vermin).
Here's to a communal spirit of crossing four things off of life's "to do" list.
GOOD LUCK!
Lee
p.s. Dr. Phil (who I've only watched twice) wouldn't agree - but how about some kind of reward for yourself on June 1?
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