Out with the old, in with the new: the January NSD challenge

beanielou

Welcome Pie to our lovely thread & to MSE.
Keep posting.

niccatw

Keiss_21 wrote: »

Thanks you two...I felt so much better admitting that I have a problem in the first place....so perhaps there is hope after all! I do tend to set myself far too many things to do, and expect too high a standard...so less projects, and less pressure on myself needs to be the way to go methinks!!

So today I have started on a list of things to do in January. I will no doubt break it down into smaller weekly and daily lists later. When I complete one, I will tick it off with the date beside it. I started doing this last year, and it helped a lot...seeing when I did things came in useful sometimes.

Actually, perhaps I will start off a spreadsheet....I have one for weight loss (or in the case of 2010, gain ) and another spends, so another could come in handy. I also need to devise little prizes for myself as rewards for completing tasks/projects...not sure if I should be using food as a reward as I am trying to lose loads of weight! Perhaps, an afternoon of cross-stitching can be "won" if I complete 5 biggish tasks in a week.....I don't want to make it a competition, as I will be back to doing too much again!!

If anyone has other ideas of how to cope better with doing too much, then I am all ears (and eyes!).

Less to do doesn't match with starting a list and a spreadsheet Keiss .

Me time works for me too, be it getting up half an hour earlier (very rare!) to have a cuppa in total silence, doing some yoga (the meditation bit at the end is fab!) or sewing. It doesn't matter that your "me time" is productive as long as it absorbs your attention fully and you're not thinking about all the other stuff! (My sewing isn't productive but it is all-consuming )

Remember - don't sweat the small stuff. And view all the stuff as small stuff! Makes it so much easier!

Read Henry William Davies' poem "Leisure" and keep it in mind when you're doing too much! I've been trying to say no more often and do less (that's coming from a girl with two jobs and studying for a post grad! It's necessary!!!) But clearly I'm rubbish at it!

I have started to asked myself "what does this mean to me in the grand scheme of things? And stressing over work isn't what I want to be doing. Or making myself ill to get that pesky case study in on time. So what if I get a lower mark than I'd like? I still learned lots. So what if I can't get that report finished before home time; there's only so much time in my day.

But I do care if my nephew is too shy to play with me because he sees me so little. Or I can't find time to visit my friend and play with the kids. Or find time to catch up over a cuppa.

Because they are the things that me sane! Hence my resolution to spend more time with the people who make me laugh!

Oooh 'eck, I came over all philisophical and went on a bit of a rant! Oops! Only came on to declare NSD 1 officailly

cw18 wrote: »

You've got a friend here then

"Builder's Brew but hold the sugar" is the ONLY way to drink tea (though I actually use skimmed most of the time)

Then Cheryl, Moneypenny, you'll be fine with my tea making as that's the way I drink it too .

muffin_man_7

Keiss_21 wrote: »

Thanks mm7...ooh surp

Still working on a birthday surprise for DS1 while he is at his GF's. Hope to get a large frame painted (primed this afternoon & 1st coat going on tonight!) then put in loads of piccies of him growing up . The frame will look great in his room here...the old frame colour (white) just didn't go. (BTW...got the 4 foot by 18" frame, complete with piccies, mount and glass for £5!!!)

I am keepng the B&W piccies already there as he will probably prefer them, so he can remove the other pictures if he wants to

keiss may i ask where did you get the frame? sounds like a good plan for xmas2011 lol i need 7 so soon as i get my son in law to help with my printer i can start printing cute pics the black wont work even though its got ink in it , my eldest loves photos every where it would be good to put pics in she hasn't seen for ages and some from this year too you've done it now, you got my head spinning with ideas hope i manage to do them at least i've got 11 months so can pace myself i could even do this as my reward for getting other stuff done

cw18

niccatw wrote: »

Then Cheryl, Moneypenny, you'll be fine with my tea making as that's the way I drink it too .

Let me know when you're putting the kettle on and I'll be right over

Got to teach someone else how to make a decent brew tomorrow - in between dragging him kicking and screaming into the world of budgetting spreadsheets :eek:

brummiebabe

Yay...NSD number 1:j- haven't been out of the house!!!!

JES_F1

Not spent anything today so off to a good start - 1 out of 1!

:rotfl:

I did spend some Amazon vouchers received for Christmas though so 'shopped' without parting with any real money. :D

:j

Decluttering

NSD #1 today, haven't gone anywhere!

jedi82

Hi Spoony, good start, number 1 for me today
Jedi x

kdenty

Made it through NSD no1. Does anyone else find that when your trying not do something it becomes am obsession and all you can think about, so sometimes end up doing the opposite?

Today I kept thinking about not going out and spending but soooo felt like going to co-op for snacks!

madras79

hi newbie hear can i be put down for 15 nsd please