Looking for accountability partners (task check in) #2

Yesterday was great! We stopped at a couple of yard sales on the way home and I found two things I've been wanting for years. I hope everyone is feeling better today. Moving with a knee injury does not sound fun.


1. Homework due.
2. Chores
3. Portfolio

Yesterday I took out my trash. The day turned out better than I thought it would. I felt better after getting more rest. Today, I will:

1. Clean my kitchen.
2. Clean my bathroom.
3. Watch some videos.

Hope all of you are well. Happy Sunday!!

I’m meeting my daughter in another town to see a movie. I didn’t float this morning as I had things to do. Today I will:

1. See a movie
2. Clean house
3. Study QiQong

I hope everyone has a nice Sunday!

Feel like I am going to forget my meeting this morning.


1. Meeting
2. Library
3. Cleaning

I straightened up my kitchen and bathroom. Merry Maids is coming today to do the rest of the cleaning. I will try to relax. I feel nervous about this. I will do my best to calm myself. I hope everyone has a good day.

The Merry Maids sounds interesting! Hope you will feel satisfied with them.

I'm on my way back from an unexpected "extra-vacation". Hope to be back to basic from tomorrow morning. I will write my to do list later today.

May you all feel that what you are able to do is OK (either little or much)!

With emergency after emergency, the basics have fallen through the cracks. Today is calm so I’m going to work on catching up the house and other things to a baseline level. I also have a zoom meeting to attend tonight.

I hope everyone has a good day!

I feel very tired and just want to go to bed, but the book (about anti-procrastination) says that we shall ask the ordinary CBT questions and if we are "clever" we will understand that we have been able to do things when tired before. If so, we can do it again.

I choose to be clever.

Plans for tomorrow :

- Jogging for 1/2 hour.
- Empty the dishwasher.
- Wash dishes that are not fit for the dishwasher.
- Call dentist (one of my teeth broke).
- Make a grocery list.
- Walk to the grocery store for groceries and to deliver empty bottles.
- Home-office.
- For relaxation: Reading.

May you all feel that what you are able to do is OK (either little or much)!

I got my weeks messed up and scheduled something for tomorrow and kind of wish I hadn't, whoops. I may cancel - this was a reschedule of the meeting I was supposed to have yesterday which the other person canceled after it was supposed to start. TBH, all I want to do today is go to the beach and read a novel I got from the library. I have a list of things I need to get done before I head out of town. There are also a bunch of 'shoulds' but I may let them wait a bit.


1. Beach - perfect day for it.

2. Read novel.
3. Start knocking out pre-trip to-do list.

This has not been one of my best days. I had to rest for an hour after the jogging. When I went out of bed again, I became sidetracked by something I found on the Internet. I became filled with "depressive thoughts". It took a while before I understood that I had let myself become sidetracked by some unimportant "things". I forgot to call the dentist, and forgot my bottles at home, but I have done the most important (jogging, empty dishwasher, visited the grocery store and doing my work at my office. My work helped me to consentrate and to have my focus right.). I will do no physical training tomorrow.

My plans for tomorrow :

- Shower immediately after breakfast.
- Fill dishwasher and wash what cannot go into the dishwasher.
- Call the dentist.
- Home office

May you all feel that what you are able to do is OK (either little or much)!

I unloaded the dishwasher, did some cooking and reloaded the dishwasher. Now I am relaxing. I have a med appointment in a couple of hours. I hope everyone is doing well!

I took mom to a doctor’s appointment in another town and knocked a bunch of errands off my to do list. I am tired now and have a headache but will still cook dinner and pick up. Tomorrow:

1. Follow brother to the mechanic
2. Take brother to pain management appointment
3. Float at the pool
4. Take the trash out
5. Call plumber about fixing a large leak
6. Prepare for Thursday’s medical appointment

I hope everyone has a peaceful Wednesday.

I am so frustrated. I sat by the breakfast table and procrastinated about going to have a shower. I tried and tried to motivate myself, but could not find the energy to do it. I felt shame and despair. I wasn't a procrastinator originally. As a teenager, I went out of bed before my mother in the mornings because I wanted to clean my room. She always wanted to do that herself and I wanted the responsibility, so up I went and did "things". I could have mentioned the one situation after the other that showed that I was more than willing to do things.

I remembered the book about how to fight procrastination. I read some of the underlinings and the Psychologist Hayden Finch (2021) explained that it has nothing to do with laziness, but with how the brain has become used to functioning and that there will be setbacks when one starts fighting it (her book is about how to unwind these brain "complications"). She tells that there has been very little scientific research on procrastination earlier. It is first in the last ten years that science has taken it seriously.

Oh yes, there happened "things" in my life when I was middle aged, that was terrible and unbearable. This morning I felt comforted and accepted by this psychologist words, not lazy, and went to rest for one hour.

May be this is not interesting to read about for other people, but it gives me some kind of relief to write it down now when I remember it, and of course I hope that if there should be somebody else with the same problems reading this , they can start feeling less lazy.

For now I am having a cup of coffee and I have rearranged my plans. I will fill dishwasher first and then take my shower.

A good day to everyone! : throb:

I did very little work yesterday. I went to the beach and read my novel. I also started crossing off random things from the to-do list.

1. More random items.
2. Grocery store before lunch so there is lunch.
3. Homework - limit it to two hours MAX.

My med call went well. I'm going back on Zoloft. Cymbalta was causing too many side effects. Today I will cook vegan chili and clean litter boxes. I hope everyone has a good day!

After I had rearranged the order of my to do list, everything went well. I have been busy all day long until the evening news. My appointment with the dentist isn't before Monday. I don't have pain, so it is OK to wait.

I will study the "anti-procrastination techniques" for 45 minutes. After that I will slow down before I go to bed.

My plans for tomorrow:

- Free choice at the start of the day.
- Gym.
- Free choice after the visit to the Gym.
- Fill dishwasher.
- Dusting.
- Visit grocery store.

May you all feel that what you are able to do is OK (either little or much)!

Feeling disgusted with myself. My homework was to provide peer feedback on other people's writing assignments. I did not want to spend more than two hours on it but spent close to six. This is a very poor use of my time. I struggle because I want to give helpful criticism but also spend a lot of time refining so it sounds nice. I wish I had not spent so much time on this today. I had considered leaving for my workshop early but tomorrow is going to be busy since I didn't get much else done.

The good news is that I submitted all my feedback today instead of dragging it out even more.

Don't beat yourself up. We all make mistakes. Happy for you that you had some good news to tell as well.

I cooked 6 meals in 2 days. I put some of it in the freezer for next week. I have no chores to do today except clean the kitchen. But that's pretty easy. I've been cleaning as I go. So today I will relax and play games. I hope everyone has a good day today!