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morning all
hope you are well
today
take out dogs
hang out washing
pack ebay sales
driving range with ds
bbq at step dd2 for the match
finish laying turf for dd1
cook breakfast
tea
tidy thoroughly whole house - put bits where they belong empty bins etc put clothes shoes away
mop kitchen floor
best move my bum and get on - lolSave 12k in 2015 member 187. £62.50/60000 -
Morning all,
Another beautiful day here. I made a start on the kitchen yesterday, but need to keep up the pace today.
Catch up later.
Plan for the day
[STRIKE]Family up and out to shoes with lunches[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Lollypop[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Accounts Job[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Lollypop[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Home [/STRIKE]
Pick up oven cleaner and scourers from Tesco
Do all household tasks on the 'To Do' list - To finish by Month End
Do the ironing while watching a film
[STRIKE]The Shred - Level 3 - Day 28[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Cinema Audit 1 - Write Up[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Cinema Audit 2 - Write Up[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Update Sparkpeople[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Organise for Tuesday[/STRIKE]
Gym/Swim and jacuzzi
Outstanding To Do List - To Finish by Month End
- Fill in licence application - Monday
[STRIKE]- Call sisters [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Look out stuff for HBOS - Monday[/STRIKE]
- Find a place for everything in the kitchen
[STRIKE]- Cupboard 1[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Cupboard 2[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Cupboard 3[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Cupboard 4[/STRIKE]
- Cupboard 5 - Monday
[STRIKE]- Set of drawers 1/2/3[/STRIKE]
- Set of drawers 4
- Fridge
- Storecupboard
[STRIKE]- Under The Sink[/STRIKE]
- Laundry cupboard
- Oven
- Buy two bags with insurance money
- Training schedule/pay plan for DS
- Ironing
- Get shoes re-healed
- Take in dress to get altered
- Spend three hours on website content and development
[STRIKE]- Phone insurance company re: window that DH has broken[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Check school holiday dates for April 2011 - Fri 8th - Mon 18th[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Send off packages for DH[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Pay Vodafone[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Book in DS bike for service[/STRIKE]
- Take DS bike for service
- Pay W Alarms
- Send off client information to solicitors
- Call solicitors re the above
13/33 = 39%I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.0 -
Morning,
Yet another lovely morning, isn't this great!
A pal and I are meeting up with 5 friends visiting from England, and we will be doing a bit of sight seeing and treating them to lunch between us. We are taking them to a lovely, country restaurant which does a great, eat as much as you like, carvery for £4.50, a head, including a drink, so the financial damage shouldn't be too great, I just need to be careful on the healthy eating front
.
Plan for the day
[STRIKE]Clean fridge[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Washing on line and in machine[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Family up and out with lunches[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Lollypop[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Pick up pal and meet friends in the city[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Spend day and lunch with friends - while in city do these things:-[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Pop in dress for alteration[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Drop off shoes for re-healing[/STRIKE]
- Drop in to HBOS to close accout
[STRIKE]- Send off information to the Solicitors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Back for Lollypop and to pick up DS[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Call Solicitors[/STRIKE]
- Pay WAlarms
[STRIKE]Drop DS bike off for a service[/STRIKE]
Then from yesterday -
- Pick up oven cleaner and scourers from Tesco
- Do all household tasks on the 'To Do' list - To finish by Month End
[STRIKE]- Do the ironing while watching a film (film evening)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]The Shred Level 3 - Day 29[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Update Sparkpeople[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Organise for Wednesday[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Family film evening - chill with popcorn and ironing board.[/STRIKE]
Outstanding To Do List - To Finish by Month End
- Fill in licence application - Monday
[STRIKE]- Call sisters [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Look out stuff for HBOS - Monday[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Find a place for everything in the kitchen
[/STRIKE]- Cupboard 1
[STRIKE] - Cupboard 2
- Cupboard 3
- Cupboard 4
- Cupboard 5 - Monday[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Set of drawers 1/2/3[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Set of drawers 4[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Fridge[/STRIKE]
- Storecupboard
[STRIKE]- Under The Sink[/STRIKE]
- Laundry cupboard
- Oven
- Buy two bags with insurance money
- Training schedule/pay plan for DS
[STRIKE]- Ironing[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Get shoes re-healed[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Take in dress to get altered[/STRIKE]
- Spend three hours on website content and development
[STRIKE]- Phone insurance company re: window that DH has broken[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Check school holiday dates for April 2011 - Fri 8th - Mon 18th[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] - Send off packages for DH
- Pay Vodafone
- Book in DS bike for service[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Take DS bike for service[/STRIKE]
- Pay W Alarms
[STRIKE]- Send off client information to solicitors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] - Call solicitors re the above[/STRIKE]
25/33 = 75%I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.0 -
you are so well organised scrooge!
today i want to tidy living room and kitchen
washing drying
post office will couple of parcels - ebay sales
then ebay
before golf at 4 with ds
also finances need doingSave 12k in 2015 member 187. £62.50/60000 -
Morning,
Early start today, onwards and upwards! There is the annual prize giving event at DS school today, and DS is receiving the Headteacher's Award for achievement, so one proud mumma today
.
Plan for the day
Early morning cleaning
Washing on and out
Family up and out with lunches
Lollypop
Accounts Job
Prize giving
Lollypop
Then everything in purple on the list:- Red items to be finished by the end of the week
Outstanding To Do List - To Finish by Month End
- Fill in licence application - Monday
- Call sisters
- Look out stuff for HBOS - Monday
- Find a place for everything in the kitchen
- Cupboard 1
- Cupboard 2
- Cupboard 3
- Cupboard 4
- Cupboard 5 - Monday
- Set of drawers 1/2/3
- Set of drawers 4
- Fridge
- Storecupboard
- Under The Sink
- Laundry cupboard
- Oven
- Buy two bags with insurance money
- Training schedule/pay plan for DS
- Review plan for June and make one for July
- Ironing
- Get shoes re-healed
- Take in dress to get altered
- Spend three hours on website content and development
- Phone insurance company re: window that DH has broken
- Check school holiday dates for April 2011 - Fri 8th - Mon 18th
- Send off packages for DH
- Pay Vodafone
- Book in DS bike for service
- Take DS bike for service
- Pay W Alarms
- Send off client information to solicitors
- Call solicitors re the above
25/33 = 75%I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.0 -
Good morning,
Yes, it sure is an early start for you this morning scrooge.
You must be a very proud mummy :j. Your DS has done so well to achieve such an award.
I agree with Wilf, you are so organised. I'm ashamed to say that I have lapsed so much recently that it is embarrassing. I am definitely going to have to take some tips from you. I must say, seeing how much you accomplish does inspire me to get off my bum and do! As usual you have lots on your list but I know you will achieve them.
After having a brief look it seems like I have got lots to catch up on in this thread. I'm going to read and respond as I go along otherwise my post will be too long (and no doubt boring for the rest of you!)
I'm so pleased that you have been keeping up with The Shred. The rest of my month fell by the wayside but I'm very keen to start again in July and yes, I am definitely up for the 66 day challenge.
wilf, I hope you are getting things crossed off your list. If not, I think scrooge may have to give us a little prod (or maybe I should say encouragement) to get us into gear.
Back soon, I'm off to read and post (hopefully).
Enjoy your day everyone
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scrooge2008 wrote: »Morning,
Early start today, onwards and upwards! There is the annual prize giving event at DS school today, and DS is receiving the Headteacher's Award for achievement, so one proud mumma today.
Plan for the day
Early morning cleaning
Washing on and out
Family up and out with lunches
Lollypop
Accounts Job
Prize giving
Lollypop
Then everything in purple on the list:- Red items to be finished by the end of the week
Outstanding To Do List - To Finish by Month End
- Fill in licence application - Monday
- Call sisters
- Look out stuff for HBOS - Monday
- Find a place for everything in the kitchen
- Cupboard 1
- Cupboard 2
- Cupboard 3
- Cupboard 4
- Cupboard 5 - Monday
- Set of drawers 1/2/3
- Set of drawers 4
- Fridge
- Storecupboard
- Under The Sink
- Laundry cupboard
- Oven
- Buy two bags with insurance money
- Training schedule/pay plan for DS
- Review plan for June and make one for July
- Ironing
- Get shoes re-healed
- Take in dress to get altered
- Spend three hours on website content and development
- Phone insurance company re: window that DH has broken
- Check school holiday dates for April 2011 - Fri 8th - Mon 18th
- Send off packages for DH
- Pay Vodafone
- Book in DS bike for service
- Take DS bike for service
- Pay W Alarms
- Send off client information to solicitors
- Call solicitors re the above
25/33 = 75%
Hi me again, scrooge your missing something from your list! Day 30 (final day of the month) of The Shred... or have you already done it?Save £12k in 2017 #14
How much will you spend in 2017 #40 -
scrooge2008 wrote: »Here's an interesting bit of research. 66 days appears to be the magic number :eek:. Who's up for a 66 day Shred challenge???????
How Long Does it Take an Action to Become a Habit; 21, 28, or 66 Days?
By Kathryn Goetzke
So you start a lot of great new approaches, but they never seem to stick.
Ann Graybiel of MIT’s McGovern Institute has shown through research that neurons change their firing patterns when habits are learned, and then change them again when unlearned. However, as soon as something kicks back in the habit, they are fired back up. That is why it is so easy to pick back up negative addictions like smoking and drinking, but also why if you establish good habits but lose them, you can kick them back up much easier as well.
So how long does it take to establish habits? While the well established rule on habits is 21-28 days, the UK Health Behaviore Research Centre recently came out with research that found it took 66 days to form a habit. I would tend to agree with the latest research — if we can do something for 66 days straight, we can do it for a year, five, or thirty. 21 or 28 days seems to be just enough time to make it questionable, or make you confident but not be able to stick to it.
YEP I am definitely up for a 66 day Shred challenge. I am nowhere near as fit as you but I'm hoping to be! Surely The Shred has got to be a little bit easier this time around! I haven't lost any weight this month so really need to get my act together.
Scrooge I'll be picking your brains throughout the month on how to change my eating habits as I think just exercise is not going to do the job for me at this stage. I really must get rid of this middle age spread... its horrifying...:eek:Save £12k in 2017 #14
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scrooge2008 wrote: »Morning,
It's true that the worse jobs do get left until last, but because I keep seeing them on the list day after day, they do get tackled and the feeling of getting those jobs crossed off is the best of all.
Also, they are never as bad as I think they will be, so I end up wondering why it took me so long to do the job.
The most organised way of doing it would be worse jobs first (jobs I am most likely to procrastinate on), at a time of day when I have the most energy. I might try that. Thanks Wilf.
For the next week worse job 1 and 2 (or the jobs I am most likely to procrastinate on) will be highlighted in purple and will need to be done as early in the day as possible.
Outstanding To Do List - Items up to number 13 have to be done today.
[STRIKE]- More stuff back to Anne (1)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Blackberry download (2)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Smear Test (3)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- BT website design call (4)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Trip to Dr/chemist with DS (5)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Trip to the dump with carpet from yesterday (6)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Drop stuff of at the school (7)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Fill up with diesel (8)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Re-arrange appointment with W/L (9)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Call Roy (10)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Tern invoice (11)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Call client 1 (12)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Change both beds (13)[/STRIKE]
- Fill in licence application (14)
- Call sisters (15)
- Call Dad (16)
- Look out stuff for HBOS (17)
- Finish writing up MS for GR - needs to be in by Saturday (18)
Plan
[STRIKE] - The Shred
- DS finish homework
- Family up and out to shoes with lunches
- Lollypop
- Drop stuff off at school[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- RB and TD[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Accounts job[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Smear test[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Dr/Chemist appointment[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- BT website design[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Blackberry download[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] - Stuff to Anne
- Call client 1
- Trip to the dump[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Call Roy[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- Make tea [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] - Organise for Saturday
- Chill watching a film - 'Dead Poet's Society' again.[/STRIKE]
OK, I am going to bite the bullet and start listing my daily/montly list of things to do. I only crossed off about a quarter of the things on my June list and I am determined for July not to be the same. I have always been a list maker but have started to procrastinate even more than usual. I acknowledge that I will always have lots to do on my list as there is alway something that needs doing or that I want to do... but it really is time to take action.
Scrooge, wilf and cha97, thanks for posting your lists as it is encouragement for me to get my act together and start getting things done. Please feel free to give me a good talking to if I start to lapse. Thanks again you are all absolutely brilliant :ASave £12k in 2017 #14
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It's me again!!! Can you tell I am on a roll? Short of boring you... as promised, my list for today is
- [STRIKE]Sleep for 3 hours (working nights and haven't been to bed yet!)[/STRIKE]- [STRIKE]Call RAC[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Order garage sensor[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Email Pip[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Email BH[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Email LW[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]MSE forum updates[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Read[/STRIKE]
- Laminate board notes
- [STRIKE]July goals[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]Sort through work paperwork[/STRIKE]
- Insurance paperwork
- Filing
- Call Barbados
- Call UT
- [STRIKE]Housework[/STRIKE]
Will post my July goals later.
Ciao for now.
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