Welcome to the February Edition of the Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour.\u00a0 This month we’re examining everyone’s favorite subject:\u00a0 Procrastination!\u00a0 I love procrastination.\u00a0 I can do it all day, every day.\u00a0 I make a game of it.\u00a0 In fact, I procrastinate about getting down to serious procrastination by tackling my To Do list on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
I have lists of lists (a form of procrastination).\u00a0 I use Easy Note on my iPad and Things<\/a> and Life Balance on both the Mac and iPad.\u00a0 Yes, perhaps three list-making and managing software programs would be considered excessive, but we have a master procrastinator here.\u00a0 If you’re merely an amateur, do not try this at home without proper supervision.\u00a0 You could get hurt (don’t ask me how; there’s no paper for paper cuts).<\/p>\n I have standard lists.\u00a0 Easy Note holds shopping lists and trip lists.\u00a0 Recurring, portable subjects.\u00a0 Things holds my Fly Lady Control Journal for household tasks as well as other household-related items.\u00a0 For instance, I have a category for Veterinarian which brings up reminders for when the kids need to see the vet.\u00a0 I have a Vehicle category which reminds me when our various vehicle registrations and inspections are due.\u00a0 With one or two vehicles, I wouldn’t worry, but we have two Navigators, a Jeep, a motor home, a motorcycle, and five trailers to monitor and keep current.\u00a0 Things is ideal for this.\u00a0 Things also handles Someday – Maybe items.\u00a0 In the vernacular of David Allen’s Getting Things Done<\/a>, these are projects you might decide to do someday.\u00a0 I get them out of my head and put them into Things, adding items as I think of them.<\/p>\n I added Life Balance this year, because simply getting things done isn’t necessarily productive in achieving the things I want to achieve.\u00a0 I looked around and found Life Balance, which allows me to structure my goals in a manner which allows me to see if I am achieving them in the balance I hope to achieve in my life.<\/p>\n One things that has helped me achieve the most effective procrastination levels yet this year is the following process:\u00a0 At the beginning of the year, I set broad, yet specific goals.\u00a0 Each week, I project what I want to specifically accomplish over the next week. Before going to bed, I jot down a list of what I need to accomplish the next day.\u00a0 When I get up in the morning, I begin working on that list.\u00a0 At the end of the week, I reflect upon how well I accomplished the weeks goals and set new ones for the next week.\u00a0 During the day, I check off the items on my list.\u00a0 I update my Things and Life Balance software usually toward the end of the day.<\/p>\n I find if I don’t do something like this, I am less successful at procrastinating about procrastinating and more successful at actually procrastinating.\u00a0 Remember, my goal is to embrace procrastination, which means I need to put it off as long as possible.\u00a0 Writing this article has been an effort in holding procrastination at bay, but, now that I’m nearly done, I’ll have to see what I else I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the February Edition of the Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour.\u00a0 This month we’re examining everyone’s favorite subject:\u00a0 Procrastination!\u00a0 I love procrastination.\u00a0 I can do it all day, every day.\u00a0 I make a game of it.\u00a0 In fact, I procrastinate about getting down to serious procrastination by tackling my To Do …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merry-go-round-blog-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14888,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions\/14888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}