Re: GAMES! Goals?

[Anonymous]

I like your score keeping, Carrie, it might motivate me to win a few against technology!

KrazyKat, I hear you with the clearing away and being stymied about what to do with it, that’s what paralyzes me from even getting started. I wish we had a rule that we wouldn’t bring anything into the house unless it had a designated place for storage, but that never works.

I think anything we do towards our goals counts – and we should feel good about it – even if we don’t always see a dent. We’re strengthening something, whether it’s our willpower or stamina or just stubbornness in trying to break the hold that ADD has over us. But we shouldn’t beat ourselves up when we fail – it happens. BTW, I checked in with my husband, and he didn’t throw anything away. He made yet another pile of just papers that he’ll have to go through again. But I respect the fact that this is how he deals with paperwork. He has to get it into its own pile and then motivate himself to deal with it in his own way.

My new landlord told me a story about how she hates to open mail and lets it pile up. She had an envelope that looked like something from a Readers Digest contest, you know where you have won a big prize (but usually the last envelope says someone else won), and gave it to her assistant to shred. At the very last minute, she said “wait, no, give me that back”, and it actually contained a REAL cheque for about $3,000. She had desperately needed a holiday, wanted to take her mom, had actually booked the accommodations online but didn’t know how she’d pay for it, and this little baby flew into her hands. She ALMOST shredded it. So maybe the moral of that story is that there might just be treasures in our stuff that we need to uncover.

Today I am going to try to work a schedule I just created using a new software tool – technology might just suck me in again, but I’m going to give it another shot. This one lets me see tasks, prioritize them, allocate them to different people, and see it on a calendar (I really need the visual) as well as tag them as recurring (like toilet cleaning). If I make too many tasks recurring and they start to collide on the calendar, maybe I will get the message (and plan differently) that I have too much on my plate and have to give something up.

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