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Post by twix on Nov 5, 2012 10:38:26 GMT
Yes, its time for another thread of boring stuff that needs doing.
So Phone doctors Literacy SAP KUW lesson plan KUW materials KUW write up Observation work Numeracy lesson plan materials write up Write cheques, write envelopes, put in put stamps on post. Wash up Clothes washing Have Shower. Check council tax Input mileage Ring jobcentre
Drink tea.
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Post by 16stonepig on Nov 5, 2012 10:40:52 GMT
How in god's name do people get life done. Just looking at that list I'm nearly crying in fear. I don't dare think about my own list...
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Post by twix on Nov 5, 2012 11:26:13 GMT
Yeah I know....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 14:50:08 GMT
Yes, its time for another thread of boring stuff that needs doing. So Phone doctors Literacy SAP KUW lesson plan KUW materials KUW write up Observation work Numeracy lesson plan materials write up Write cheques, write envelopes, put in put stamps on post. Wash up Clothes washing Have Shower. Check council tax Input mileage Ring jobcentre Drink tea. Yep. Drink tea.
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Post by twix on Nov 5, 2012 17:35:05 GMT
Phone doctors Literacy SAP KUW lesson plan KUW materials KUW write up Observation work Numeracy lesson plan materials write up Write cheques, write envelopes, put in put stamps on post. Wash up Clothes washing Have Shower. Check council tax Input mileage Ring jobcentre
Drink tea.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 8:54:16 GMT
The only useful thing I ever learned from a time management manual was to make sure your to-do list focused you on the next thing you needed to do to move a task forward.
You're much more likely to make progress if you write down 'put aside change for photobooth' than just adding 'photocard' to your list of topics.
When you've ticked that one off, you add 'use station photo booth on way home tonight' to the list.
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Post by wanderer on Nov 7, 2012 10:03:55 GMT
Its gonna take me half the day to figure out and program up todo list, reminders and other stuff on my new swanky phone....might actually get around to them at some point but they are not as interesting as the phone part!
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Post by li0nberries on Feb 8, 2013 16:13:15 GMT
Does anyone actually have something that works for getting your bum in gear? I've been beyond rubbish the past couple of days and haven't managed to do anything before I'm off somewhere else being extremely busy doing nothing.
The only thing I seem to be able to focus on for brief periods is this site?
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Post by jan on Feb 8, 2013 17:46:02 GMT
been giving this lot of thought - but apart from coffee and lists can't think of anything as I know for me have to be in the right mood which doesn't help and a lot of time spend so much time worrying about stuff should do but can't make myself do end up exhausted and still nothing done.
Know I love helping people though so wonder if the stuff you need doing doesn't have to be done by you (like essays) could you and a mate make your lists - and then swap - you do her stuff she do yours and you wouldn't want to let her down so get her stuff done easily and yours been done as well - just athought
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Post by li0nberries on Feb 8, 2013 18:13:28 GMT
Cheers, I can't think of anyone that I could swap the stuff on my list with at mo, cause even my list looks totally chaotic but that is definitely one to write down for the future.
Think I might start a new thread for ideas on helping to focus, cause I've found a couple on the Internet but different things seem to work for me on different days?
I don't suppose anyone knows if there's already one and if so where to find it?
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Post by Kathymel on Feb 8, 2013 23:07:24 GMT
I got some stuff done today!
I did this by allowing my son to stay off school because he was stressed about something. I told him he could only stay off if he agreed to do lots of jobs at home. Of course, this meant I had to make a list that would keep us busy for a few hours and I had to make sure he (and I) stuck to it.
We got the downstairs windows clean, washed the windowsills, stripped the beds, did the laundry AND hung it up, de-crapped the lawn and trimmed the grass back from the path. We then went out and finally submitted our applications to the local credit union (I've had them for 2 months) and got some items that I've been meaning to get for several months so I can finish some projects round the house.
God, it feels good!
Not sure the school will be happy with this plan on a regular basis.
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Post by jan on Feb 9, 2013 9:25:51 GMT
yeah go girl! what a fab day WELL DONE YOU XXX its a pity you and lion---- sorry can't remember end of name ---don't live near each other reckon you'd make a great team. Though you and your son sound pretty good together as well. Made me remember a time when i was younger (much) and a boyfriend brought his huge german shepeherd puppy round to my flat and it did huge dump in my living room and I was adamant that he should clean it up as it was his dog but he was having none of it so I put a bucket over it to sort the smell and then kind of forgot about it and walked around the bucket in the middle of my living room for weeks until finally got around to sorting it -- and hey presto it had bio -degraded or whatever you call it into fine like cobwb stuff and i just hoovered it up! ;D
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Post by Lesley on Feb 9, 2013 9:36:13 GMT
Know I love helping people though so wonder if the stuff you need doing doesn't have to be done by you (like essays) could you and a mate make your lists - and then swap - you do her stuff she do yours and you wouldn't want to let her down so get her stuff done easily and yours been done as well - just athought Must be something in the air! I was at an ADHD support group meeting last night where someone suggested just this - called it the 'Strangers on a Train' option (remember the old film? - Hitchcock?). I think it's a great idea, though i also don't have someone to swap with at the moment, unfortunately. Congratulations on a great day, Kathy - and it sounds as if you enjoyed the doing of it as well as the having got it done.
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Post by jan on Feb 9, 2013 9:57:11 GMT
been thinking some more ---- and I find that the main thing that gets me doing anything is when I see someone else doing something first -- and I could of been struggling to understand or procrastinating for ever -- and soon as i see someone else do it straight away i feel/think of a better way ---- this must make me horrible to be around. Anyone think of a job i could put this skill to use in? Anyone else like this?
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Post by li0nberries on Feb 9, 2013 11:05:40 GMT
Kathymel you are showing off now albeit with good reason ;D Janev I don't get the thing where I can see how to do it better but I can see where they aren't doing it right and I can't stand sitting there while someone else is doing something so I will always pitch in wether its helpful or not. (My partner loves this side of me NOT!) Two of the things I find help sometimes are setting a timer for each task of a min 5 mins up to 20 on a really good day. Then when the times up starting or continuing with something else on my list. The other thing I found that helps sometimes with tidying, is taking a photo on my phone of a small area and clearing that. I find working from the photo helps stop me getting as distracted.
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Post by jan on Feb 9, 2013 11:49:53 GMT
yeh thats what I meant - you put it better than I did.
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Post by Kathymel on Feb 9, 2013 12:34:44 GMT
I used to have a friend who would come round a couple of times a year (when she got fed up of listening me whine about how out of control my house was) and take me and the house in hand. She would ask me which bit I was going to deal with, then disappear into the chaos and start tidying. It's so easy to keep going when there's someone else there providing focus. We used to get the whole house tidied and cleaned in a day. Of course, I wouldn't be able to find anything for months afterwards ...
Another two friends and I did a jobs-we've-been-putting-off swap, one summer. They came to mine and helped me to treat woodworm in all my furniture, we went to one of the other's and weeded her allotment, and the third was supposed to be mending a leak in a flat roof. It didn't happen for ADHD reasons, but she did get two months worth of washing up cleared.
I get impatient with other people, too. I am forever snatching the knife out of my son's hand to butter bread, or sighing at my Significant Ex and removing the screwdriver for his cack-handed grip to do it myself. I try to stop myself when I can, now that I'm aware of it. It's difficult to do sometimes, especially when one is always late and in a hurry.
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Post by li0nberries on Feb 12, 2013 16:58:20 GMT
Don't know if this is any good to anyone else but found this site www.flylady.net/c/lp.php and its got some tips I've found helpful.
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Post by jan on Feb 12, 2013 18:51:19 GMT
;D i'm in, love it , thanks for that x
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