Me

I will get a serious case of hyper-focus while I’m downloading ill-gotten music from Amazon. I will ignore having to go to the restroom, I will ignore thirst, I will ignore other things that I think of that I need to be doing instead of that, I will forgo trips downstairs that I should be doing instead of this, etc. This is ridiculous. And I know that I will return to the downloading instead of going to the restroom and going downstairs to drop off my reimbursement paperwork. Big sigh. And the fact that I literally pissed my pants last week has not slowed me down either. I really need to find a way to block myself from getting to Amazon and other sites that can wait until I get home for. All I can think about is getting free tracks, so I keep going in and downloading albums.



I wish that I could say that things were better years back when I didn’t have a PC connected to the world wide web, but I know they weren’t. The only real difference is that instead of hyper-focusing on something when I couldn’t focus on work, I found other things to temporarily focus on instead. I’d go to the store and look around, I’d go visit someone that I was interested in, etc. Lol, just about the only thing that I wouldn’t do is walk around the building, or take a lap around the track, or go to the gym and walk on a treadmill or lift some weights. Interesting.



The 2nd thing that I’m currently hyper-focusing on is going to the thrift store to look for clothes to buy for costumes. Ever since I start making costumes for dance, I’ve been very focused on it. I come up with all kinds of ideas for it. However, I don’t put the same effort into actually making a costume. I will put off a planned one until absolutely the last moment possible, then I have to rush to get it done. I want to have the costume done, and I want to make it myself, however the actual work puts me off. For one thing, sewing (and beadwork) is very labor intensive, and fairly boring at times. It’s interesting: I feel bored by a knitting project towards the end, but I think it’s more impatience. With sewing, it’s in the beginning, where I have to combine so many small parts into larger parts. With crocheting, it’s a combination of impatience and boredom back and forth throughout the project. I like crocheting, but it can be a bit slow for me.



I just realized that I did not eat lunch. I forgot all about it, sitting here, surfing.



Thanks ….



‘Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.’ – Alexander Pope

'We are all here to do what we are all here to do. I'm interested in ... the future ... and the only way to get there is together.' - The Oracle

Me

Earlier




I'm making myself only work on one item at the moment, because I really really need to get it done. Although no set time limit has been set on the project, I should be farther along than I am. However, as to be expected, while I'm working on the one, I'm thinking about other projects, the ones that I am very behind on. More than just 'thinking' about them, I would say. I remind myself of that Star Trek episode with the Kelvins that could literally multitask, doing many things at one time, who had encased themselves in a human form so that they could invade human space. Meant to do many things but trapped in a body that can only do one thing at a time. A total bitch.



I am behind on everything, work, cleaning, xmas projects, CFC, Papyrus articles, everything. I have more than I have time for, but I can't really put any aside. I think they call that screwed.



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I wish that I had better control over my impulses. My memory lapses cause me fewer problems than my





Thanks ….



‘Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.’ – Alexander Pope

'We are all here to do what we are all here to do. I'm interested in ... the future ... and the only way to get there is together.' - The Oracle

Re: Better planning

http://www.diyplanner.com/node/6116 - comment-363863

I was reading one of the replies on this thread when I had a bit on an epiphany.  Everything that the repliers mentioned made sense to me.  As much as I like my Palm, I’ve learned to not use it for day-to-day to-do keeping.  So instead, I have continued to keep notes on paper and use the PDA for long-term data and for calendar items, so that it reminds me of things, usually by making some noise with an alarm.  However, there is one method that I’ve noticed that I come back to, every 1 to 2 years, and that is using blank paper, specifically a blank notepad, as the first reply mentions.  This will seem odd but some woman in this D*I*Y groups was mentioning that she works better with blank pages (she was asking how to remove the lines from one of the templates).  After reading this, her theory makes more sense to me.  I remember that Tommy Hood would always use a legal pad, except that he wrote all over it, ignoring the lines.  Lol, I think that me and the woman I mentioned see it same: lines ‘fence’ us in.  Lines kind of equate to rules; i.e. lines mean you ‘have’ to do it a certain way, which might change your flow of thinking.  Anyhoo, sorry for the long path through the forest to get to this conclusion: instead of coming back around to blank notepads, I need to start from that point this time around.

I even use the checklists like replier #3 talks about.  I’ve used them for many years, without even giving them a whole lot of thought; they were just my set of instructions on how to do something.  The major processes I performed with Sales Based Replenishment and PO Amendments had at least one checklist backing them.  And I now do the same thing in catalog.  A good process to stick with, I think.

Thanks ….

‘Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.’ – Alexander Pope

'We are all here to do what we are all here to do.  I'm interested in ... the future ... and the only way to get there is together.' - The Oracle

FW: 7 Habits of Highly Defective People

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'Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.' Alexander Pope

'We are all here to do what we are all here to do. I'm interested in ... the future ... and the only way to get there is together.' - The Oracle




From: Collins, Monica P.

Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:35 PM

To:
Subject: RE: 7 Habits of Highly Defective People



I didn't know about losing the 50 IQ points, but I am familiar with the rest of it. My personal theory or take on it is that the more stressed a person is, the less the thinking and reasoning parts of our brains work, leaving the 'base' processes running the show. When I'm stressed/pissed/etc, all of my dime-store words leave my brain, and I have an inclination to punch people in the arm because I can't put words to the thoughts in my head at that moment. Lately, when I find myself getting too far into an argument, I try to get out of it before everything's gone, and I'm only left with 'yeah, well up yours!' because I couldn't think of a classier line to throw out.



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'Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.' Alexander Pope

'We are all here to do what we are all here to do. I'm interested in ... the future ... and the only way to get there is together.' - The Oracle




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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:34 AM

To:
Subject: RE: 7 Habits of Highly Defective People



Are you trying to tell us something?










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From:
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 10:23 AM

To:
Subject: 7 Habits of Highly Defective People

I'm taking this course online today and ran across an interestingly true passage that everyone should remember. Definitely something to print and hang on the cork board in your office.



Defective people have a tendency to personalize issues. Rather than remembering to manage their hot buttons, they allow themselves to become emotionally hooked by events. The chief problem with this kind of behavior is that stress makes us stupid. It’s true. You may have heard the popular saying “under stress, we regress.” That’s true, and the reason that we regress is that when we get emotionally hooked, our IQ's actually drop.











Remarkably, studies show that our IQ's can drop by as much as 50 points when we are stressed out, irritated, harried or beleaguered!







That's quite a drop. Most of us cannot afford to lose that many IQ points and still be functioning effectively.

It's Me

I can't believe the thought that I just had. I just found myself thinking that I wished that Duv would make love to me, instead of just having sex. The last time that subject came up, Jim was making the same complaint of me. Guess I've done a 180, huh?

It's Me

Once I figured out how much time I need to get ready for work, I will sleep until that very last moment, even when I don’t need to.  I set my alarm for 6:00, since I was driving the truck to work.  When it went off, I moved it down to 6:30, and I wasn’t even  sleepy, I just wanted to get back into bed.  I did that all this week. 

I actually need more than an hour to get ready in the mornings, with all of the cat stuff that has been added to my morning routine.  And anything extra, like collecting my electronic devices out of the workroom or getting a pack of toilet tissue from the utility closet, of course adds time.  But I refuse to get up early if I don’t ‘feel’ like I’ve slept enough, even when I’ve had over 6 hours.

Thanks ….

‘Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.’ – Alexander Pope

'We are all here to do what we are all here to do.  I'm interested in ... the future ... and the only way to get there is together.' - The Oracle