| Jun 27 @ 6:49 PM |
Good ole procrastination and worry
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Aeromuse
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Aeromuse - I so identify with putting things off again and again as you said and getting the body moving and the brain on hold. Thanks for the reply!
No problem Gray! Nike really hit it on the head with their slogan "Just Do It." Three little words - but it really does work!
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| Jun 27 @ 8:49 PM |
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meanjolene
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Worry worries me too much. I want it done...yesterday!
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| Jun 27 @ 8:57 PM |
Good ole procrastination and worry
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signme
Posts: 9,598
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By the end of July my house will be clean, I promise!
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| Jun 28 @ 9:58 PM |
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grayson_calif
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aeromuse - one thing though...when you have too much on your list of to do and they all seem so immediate...i'd like to get to the point when i know that some things just take longer to do and to be able to plan my time better and get them done.
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| Jun 28 @ 10:17 PM |
Good ole procrastination and worry
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Heaveninawildflower
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i'd like to get to the point when i know that some things just take longer to do and to be able to plan my time better and get them done.
Not to mention having the energy to do them...I did it right today, even if it burned me out badly...started weeding at 0600 this morning, went until 0700. Bear in mind that it was already in the 90's at that point. An hour of rehydration, then some housework and grocery shopping, but that's been pretty much it. It's 107 right now.
Some things really DO have to wait...when you're sweating 26 ounces an hour, even youngsters have to be careful, let alone the old birds like me.
Tomorrow I'll be out at 0600 again, probably for an hour or so, rehydrate, then hit the gym for an hour. I'm not at all sure about the rest of the day - it's supposed to hit 112. I talked to my SO a little while ago, and he may have to put his dog down tomorrow - he can't even stand anymore...he can walk a little bit, but if he stops he just collapses...I hope I get to say goodbye but I think SO may want to be alone...his choice of course.
BTW, he's been procrastinating as long as he could - this is gonna be really tough for him.
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| Jun 28 @ 10:21 PM |
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sweet5red
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procrocrastination makes me think of this......
Dont wait for a rainy day..
A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:
"This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package."
He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.
"She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:
"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".
I still think those words changed my life.
Now I read more and clean less.
I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.
I spend more time with my family, and less at work.
I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through.
I no longer keep anything.
I use crystal glasses every day.
I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it.
I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to.
The words "Someday..." and "One Day..." are fading away from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now. I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell.
I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends. She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food. It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come.
I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters... letters that i wanted to write "One of this days". I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at least, how much I love them.
Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives.
And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day.
Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.
Just something to think about... (Not personal to me and probably seen by many before but I think it's nice and makes you think)
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