I've been using this method in a different direction, but with similar results. I try to do nice things for myself. Like re-filling the dietCoke when it's low, so that me-of-the-future will have dietCoke. And then I try to turn around and be grateful. Wow! Someone re-filled the dietCoke! someone filled my fridge with food I like! someone tidied my room so when I walked in it felt peaceful and calm! Wow! They must really like me! Oh, right, that was ME!
I sometimes wish liking were something one could can. I'd put up a few jars of kjc-is-amazing and you could pull one out of the pantry when you ran low.
Yeah, compulsive list-making helps SO MUCH. The problem then becomes managing the lists and not losing track of items if there's a bazillion of them. So far, I'm doing this by using a Moleskine weekly calendar that has the 7 days on the left and blank lined pages on the right. I write appointments & deadlines on the left and stuff I need to remember on the right. I'm also using Post-It notes and sticking them on the blank pages and moving them along to the next week if I need to... that cuts down on the frustration of having to write the same task over & over as weeks pass & it doesn't get done.
functional mewonderreaderSeptember 10 2011, 14:39:17 UTC
Love that whole concept of functional Me setting up tasks for depressed Me to follow. I will have to think on that...and breaking tasks down in to more do-able chunks.
Re: functional mekjcSeptember 21 2011, 06:06:37 UTC
Everyone's always told me, practically my whole life, to break tasks down into more manageable chunks, but no one ever really SHOWED me how to do it. It seems simple, but it's not as simple as it sounds because you need to know a fair bit about how you work in order to figure out a do-able chunk of work.
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I wish I liked myself more.
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Yeah, compulsive list-making helps SO MUCH. The problem then becomes managing the lists and not losing track of items if there's a bazillion of them. So far, I'm doing this by using a Moleskine weekly calendar that has the 7 days on the left and blank lined pages on the right. I write appointments & deadlines on the left and stuff I need to remember on the right. I'm also using Post-It notes and sticking them on the blank pages and moving them along to the next week if I need to... that cuts down on the frustration of having to write the same task over & over as weeks pass & it doesn't get done.
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