The Daily Efficient Work Thread!

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3 februari 2007 - day 22

damn as a consequence to yesterday I slept in pretty bad. apart from what I assigned myself to do I had to drag myself to do the rest and it took me all day. As negative as the previous sounds here's what I did today:

30 minutes of roomwork
stretchroutine again with the extra yoga-type stretch
Got my laundry done finally
Did some pretty intense guitar muscle memory drills with the metronome
While doing the laundry I picked up a book from uni I dropped out of and studied with newfound patience (lets ascribe that to the emotion of the moment)
Hey dadeaon btw it sounds like you know whats going on with people who want to kick their own ass in an encouraging way. you're absolutely right about posting being a motivation (yeah you're deadon about that ... is that nickname on purpose ? )

WElllll
8 more days to go ... oh the anticipation

[Scholar22]

55 pages done! (including title pages)

I still have to write a conclusion, and insert a few more sources to beef up the bibliography. But I'm almost there.

Next task on the agenda (starting Tuesday): studying for doctoral comps.

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4 februari - Day 23

Woops again forgot to post the same day. But its also that im spending less time on the internet.

got up at 9 again without the snooze.
then it was 15 minutes on my room. Didnt feel like doing that at all so it was 15 minutes no more.
Stretching went down easily as it has become more enjoyable recently even.

allright we're getting there

cheerio

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5 februari 2007 - Day 24

Pretty easy today.

9 oclock out of bed
Roomwork was half an hour
stretchroutine was painful again but I see some minor progress
Took a plunge again for the sake of showing up.
Played some guitar disciplined (without really feeling like that repetitive pain-in the ass loop) read schoolmaterial for an entire hour
Got things organised with the bank as well as one of the government/employment offices.

6 more days - havent skipped one day so far.

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6 februari 2007 - day 25

Boy what an unproductive day.

slept in like a modfo'r
took a afternoon nap, went out dinner with girlfriend got home an hour ago
then did my 15 minutes of roomwork and stretching
then typed up this message.

slacky day shyte laddy

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7 Februari 2007 - Day 26

Oh boy its getting harder at the end!
Its like Im hanging on a string and barely made it to do 15 minutes of roomwork as well as my stretchroutine.
this is the second day in a row of sleeping in rather heavily and hardly feeling any energy
But on the other hand finally got my ID application done as well as - damnit what was the other thing again - Can't remember even
Oh yes of course went to an appointment with my jobmentor and gotten great advice

allright thats it for now.

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8 februari 2007 - day 27

Today sleeping is has not vanished yet
even more so, I had to do my stretchroutine right before I wrote this in order to complete my daily assignment (Its 1:30 in the morning Brussels time now)
but I did my 15 min of cleaning my room earlier today
So this is still a valid day
No cheating after all
Allright

[srkmish]

20 rounds of running

3 hrs bet

waking up at 5 tomorrow- and 5:30-7:30- running to end point

i am gonna do it!!!

[srkmish]

i am gonna post my results tomorrow

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9 februari 2007 - Day 28

Got up at 10h30
Not that big of a getting-up-early-consistently-thing either.
Whatever.
The work on my room today was just fine and stretching was great.
Took another daynap also.

cya tomorrow.

two more days - better come up with a definitive version of my next 30-days to success.

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10 febrauri 2007 - Day 29

as preview to my review, Im amazed at how important it is to keep the gap between your old behaviour and your new behaviour not TOO large. Eventhough I only assigned myself to do only the roomwork for 15 min, I added stretching from day 1 which went OK so far. But I also added all these new habits I couldnt wait to install into my system, which came to bite me in th rear eventually. Especially when I slept in, when I skipped a day of swimming, when I forgot to write up a log of the entire day.
"unrealistic goals have the danger of making you feel like a failure even more because you've fallen harder by not achieving them. not to mention that the chance is very high that you will not achieve them - thus fall hard - simply because they ARE unrealistic"
These are the words of my studymentor when I attempted studying at uni. Now I can live up to that advice and take it into practice.

It is also very true what steve says about willpower. I went writing down my expenses, getting up early without snoozing, writing goals, plans etc.... in a very short amount of time on WILLPOWER alone, which I burned up a couple of days ago. Now I realise that I did that and I can move on being more realistic.

Next 30 days will be not too much added. I am going to keep my 15 minutes a day of roomwork as well as the stretchroutine. This time the 1 item thats gotta occur on a daily basis AND be reported on this thread is that I get up at 8u30 in the morning without snoozing and that the first thing I do in the morning is clean my room and stretch my body. So basically Im going rudder-of-the-day-style.

Today: did exactly 15 minutes of scrubbing that floor and my stretchroutine
2x10 counts standing up, 2x10 counts sitting down, 2x10 counts standing up, 2x10 counts sitting down.

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11 februari 2007 - Day 30

Allright. So I did it! Not skipping one day.
25 minutes scrubbing the floor
stretchroutine: 2x10 counts standing up, 2x10 counts sitting down, 2x10 counts standing up, 2x10 counts sitting down.

What I learned is that it really is important to set your goals for your next 30 days based on where you really are and not based on where you think you should be. It took me years to finally settle down that my situation concerning self-discipline was very poor and that doing something - anything really! - for 10-15 minutes a day would be a challenge.

All the extra stuff I did outside my assignment kind of fluctuated. There were days where I felt very deflated and thought I was fooling myself with all this stuff and that it made no sense doing this. My years of reading PD on and off did help me to reframe those moments though and helped my through it beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Now I got this out of the way.
Tomorrow its time for day 1 on my new challenge
I repeat:
On a daily basis for 30 days straight I will
get up at 8u30 in the morning
immediately start cleaning my room for 15 minutes
then stretch

What I've added is not only the getting up, but also the exact time when I do my assigned stuff.

Out with the old, in with the new.

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12 februari 2007 - Day nomansland

Damn I snoozed and slept in. I have to find a way to make this work and suggestions would be more than welcome. I need to find a way to not be too hard on myself yet driven to do my best to not make it happen again.
Admitted, I havent done my behavioural conditioning excersise. Guess thats the key.

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13 februari 2007 - Day 2 of nomansland

Hmmm. Momentum seems so easily lost. You know what typing on this board is designed to make goal achievement easier so why dont I do my exercise just NOW instead of bee-ahtching about it.
see you in 20 minutes.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Allright thats that.
I did clean my room too yesterday and today, it's gotten kindof automatic.
And you know what I'll have to make it 9:30 to get up without snoozing.

So that means tomorrow is my 1st successful day of my new challenge

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14 februari 2007 - Day 1

Yeah...
thats better. 9:30 still gives me that challenge to force my body out of bed but not in a way that its dragging outrageaously.
doing 15 minutes of work in the room was a little challenging especially because unconsciously I was trying to bail out and surf the net or play my guitar or stuff like that.
THEN after those fifteen minutes I got distracted (valentine's day ) and did stretching after that (which makes sense in a way too heheh).

Tell you what: see you guys tomorrow.

[Narz]

Originally Posted by Hsiang-Lin

My productivity level I'm sure is waaaay behind some of yours.

What is your definition of productivity? What are you wanting to produce? What is it to be "behind"?

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15 februari 2007 - day 2

...And we have a day 2, folks!

getting up 9:30 allrighty
no snoozing allright
cleaned up very nice a little more than 15 min
stretching 4x10 counts sitting, 4x 10 counts standing up allright

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16 februari 2007 - Day 3

9:30 getn up no snooze
clearing out the space: done
stretchroutine: 2x10 standing up, 2x10 sitting down, 2x 10 standing up, 2x 10 sitting down

I felt quite a bit of gravity pull after I got up and sometimes really feel like I need to relax after getting up and "relentlessly" starting to work right away. So funny now I think of it while relaxing behind the computer.

[srkmish]

goals for tomorrow- mats 155-194
chemistry-completion of written work
waking up at 6

[redmond007]

finish program
buy stuff for the house
get keys/talk to car loan guys
practice guitar
work out
meditate
financial organization at least 1 hr

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Tomorrows goals:

Stand up at 4:30
50 working sets training in morning

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17 februari 2007 - Day 4

Woopsadaisy, seems like I might have gotten a little drunk yesterday and slept in hungover until 14:00 pm
As I pondered over starting all over again I figured that that would not help me. (I'm still not entirely sure about this but a decision had to be made quick)
As long as I feel that Im pushing my limits I guess I'm doing fine.
...which was the case big time. The remnants of alcohol made it so hard to focus on 15 minutes alone, oh boy! So I constantly had to re-focus, re-focus re-focus re-focus .... focusing on my counting while I was stretching: it was a nightmare! LOL
So all in all I think its a good thing to keep the challenge going as it started 4 days ago, especially because its an oppurtunity to act in spite sliding and losing momentum.

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18 februari 2007 - Day 5

No problem today
Funny im at folks' and they were in shock
9:30 BAM got my body out of bed with no hesitation
then vacuumcleaned the livingroom and kitchen in the house (very funny moment)
then went to my old room to do the stretching 2x10 counts sitting, 2x10 counts standing up, 2x10 counts sitting down

we're groovin

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Srkmish introducing litttle changes in his life

goals for today- 10 rounds continuous running
chemistry whole syllabus written down
listening to paraliminal self esteem supercharger
getting up at 5 am

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DAY 1 ofa thirty day makeover