Karmacat: I'm passionate about my DFW journey to riches

GettingThingsDone

I've read both too, and can recommend them - that guy is brilliant!

Karmacat

It does, actually .... I have lots of Amazon vouchers saved up. I've just bought a Terrence Davies film on pre-release about Liverpool, and I was debating on using the rest for Christmas presents later this year or buying the full set of Angel DVDs ... now I might have to buy this guy!

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

Hi GTD, Hi pepe!

Yep, the pos thinking was good - The bit I loved best thats easiest to type is their classification of types of thoughts - positive, yep.... negative, yep .... and then necessary (collect kids from school, do the washing up etc etc) and finally ""waste"" - waste thoughts!!!! Yes!!!! The story of my life! What a brilliant way of putting it! And its 1.5 hours of free, fairly helpful CPD. I'll definitely be going back.

Waving hello - love the 'waste thoughts' - and the 'necessary' thoughts - hope you don't mind me popping past.

Waste thoughts are the story of my life. xx

Seaxwyn

Waste thoughts.... I seem to spend 90% of my time having those! Did they give you any tips on how to banish waste thoughts?

OliveOyl_2

you write them in a notebook, and recycle them in a story.........or is that just me?

I love random waste thoughts......or are waste thoughts things like regrets?

Seaxwyn

I like those kind of waste thoughts - what I hate are the money-related waste thoughts that plague me - constantly adding up debts and projected income and doing boring sums in my head.

Keeping_Motivated

I'm not sure about your course Karma and how they described wasteful thoughts but I got this from a website I read which may clarify some of the discussion for OO and Sea...

Waste (superfluous) thoughts:

These are worrying, brooding thoughts which keep running around in your head. This type of thought has a high tempo, achieves nothing and wastes your energy. Gossiping about others is the most common expression of wasteful thinking Superfluous thoughts are often about the past; "if only I had"... "If this hadn't happened", or about the future. "I hope", "If so and so doesn't show up".... Since the past has already gone, and 'the future is yet to come, these thoughts are useless. In fact some people live their day three times over; once in bed worrying about tomorrow; the day itself, and then again at night, going over what they should have done but didn't. This kind of thinking drains your energy and makes you less efficient.

Hope you don't mind me jumping in there Karma x

GettingThingsDone

I found David Allen's "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity" invaluable in processing "waste thoughts", and it completely changed my life. OK, it made a big difference to my life

My OH thinks it's a bit of a cult, but doesn't deny it has sorted out my life.

Put it down on a piece of paper, and think - what's the next action?

GTD

Karmacat

Hi all, especially welcome to Fay! KM, thats exactly what they meant - the kind of useless stuff thats whizzing around in your head. That sounds *another* interesting book - I can see my Amazon vouchers are going to take a thrashing!

I've had *such* an unusual day for me.... had to go do a mystery shop in a part of town that I *never* go to - and a friend had recommended I go there anyway, as the charity shops are cheaper there for knitting wool (have you seen the prices in some charity shops!!!!).

Anyway, I had a good old rootle, and realised that I had to know what I was going to knit first so hopped on a couple of buses home. Before that tho, I bought six really nice birthday cards, for a total of £1.98 - thats going in my £1000 in 100 days challenge, I tell you. I also have to gloat that instead of getting 72p from Tesco yesterday, I got £1.44, cos I was complaining so loudly and politely. And I'm still going to write a letter of complaint, as they basically implied I was a fraudster.

I retrieved my lovely fantasy book that I'd left at my accountant's yesterday, and staggering home (hunger, dontcha know) found that people a few doors down from me are having a renovation done. And lots of whole bricks are being chucked in a skip. And I have a raised bed to make in my back garden .... so I chatted to the builder, and have just spent the last hour and a half getting bricks out the skip (he even climbed in to chuck me the ones I couldn't reach) and then out to my back garden. I *definitely* know what I'm going to be doing over the weekend - even if it snows!

Now I've just got to input the mystery shop. And of course I have to have a mooch on here.

boredofbeingathome

Karmacat wrote: »

Hi all, especially welcome to Fay! KM, thats exactly what they meant - the kind of useless stuff thats whizzing around in your head. That sounds *another* interesting book - I can see my Amazon vouchers are going to take a thrashing!

I've had *such* an unusual day for me.... had to go do a mystery shop in a part of town that I *never* go to - and a friend had recommended I go there anyway, as the charity shops are cheaper there for knitting wool (have you seen the prices in some charity shops!!!!).

Anyway, I had a good old rootle, and realised that I had to know what I was going to knit first so hopped on a couple of buses home. Before that tho, I bought six really nice birthday cards, for a total of £1.98 - thats going in my £1000 in 100 days challenge, I tell you. I also have to gloat that instead of getting 72p from Tesco yesterday, I got £1.44, cos I was complaining so loudly and politely. And I'm still going to write a letter of complaint, as they basically implied I was a fraudster.

I retrieved my lovely fantasy book that I'd left at my accountant's yesterday, and staggering home (hunger, dontcha know) found that people a few doors down from me are having a renovation done. And lots of whole bricks are being chucked in a skip. And I have a raised bed to make in my back garden .... so I chatted to the builder, and have just spent the last hour and a half getting bricks out the skip (he even climbed in to chuck me the ones I couldn't reach) and then out to my back garden. I *definitely* know what I'm going to be doing over the weekend - even if it snows!

Now I've just got to input the mystery shop. And of course I have to have a mooch on here.

OOh revenge at Tesco's eh? They had better watch out with all your spare bricks:D :rotfl: