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Simply..JGID Week....

17/7/2019

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JUST GET IT DONE week.

I'm a great fan of the baby steps approach and treating myself gently, but I am also a procrastinator (first class) and there are things which I ought to do....or I should say ought to have done days, weeks, even years ago! They nag at me, sometimes barely a whisper, sometims very loudly and still I put them off.

I loved my sister's story of cleaning every inch of her vacuum cleaner rather than sit down and write the almost overdue essay.  Maybe it runs in the family I am thinking now as I write this blog post rather than make the tricky phone call.  A fine excuse!

Time for a more radical approach I thought, when I browsed a book called Hell Week in Waterstones bookstore. I could hear Wim Hof's voice saying Give it all you've got! (I'd love to know if any of you tried his breathing method and found it useful. I do it every morning now and it has been instrumental in giving me the energy to do JGID week.) I also watched the Wimbledon finals and marvelled at the discipline and commitment of the players. Other voices chimed in. Face It Life Is Hard! When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going! You Can Do This! Feel The Fear And Look It In The Eye!

I'm half way through and it is hard. I am pushing myself.  I have got a lot done (and feel as if I have spent hours navigating poorly designed websites and listening to 'Your call is very important to us, please hold....') I am determined. It's only a week after all. And the reward will be the freedom from that nagging voice and a day out without it's presence. (Edinburgh I think..)

A variant on my title - J*DI.  jUST (insert the first letter of your preferred expletive!) DO IT.

Are you one of those people who just do it without the carrots and sticks that some of us need?


On a gentler note here is a piece about wild flowers in public spaces here in uk (though I think Lady Bird johnson campaigned for such approaches on US highways many decades ago).


11 Comments
PennyL
18/7/2019 02:53:08 pm

What a brilliant idea! I’m going to treat myself to a J*DI week. I’ve got so many things that need to get done, and bother me, but I’ll do nothing rather than anything to get them done!

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Freda
19/7/2019 01:44:39 pm

You can do it PennyL!

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Mary
18/7/2019 03:15:15 pm

I will join you as a first class procrastinator and one who could easily find an expletive for the *. Not familiar with Wim Hof so no breathing exercises here. This has been a week bookended by child care for a five year old, so I have been preserving my energy for one very intent boy who demands Nanny's full time attention whether it be playing cars or doing art work. Art work is my preference as it keeps me off the floor.

Funny you should mention Edinburgh...I keep thinking that I need to make another winter visit--perhaps Scotland. Carrots, indeed. :)

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Lucille link
19/7/2019 05:46:36 am

I was getting very clever at floor game avoidance with the four year old but as there is a newly walking one year old now, I am back down there. He has learnt to wait while I get up though!

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Freda
19/7/2019 01:47:49 pm

Good exercise Lucille!

Freda
19/7/2019 01:46:59 pm

Fun Mary. (So is your idea of Edinburgh - I shall look forward to that!)

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Rosemary
19/7/2019 04:11:24 am

This really belongs to yesterday's posts, but it's a quote I've been familiar with for a long time. It seems brutal, but has its place for some people at some times. It's by Bertrand Russell

“A man of adequate vitality and zest will surmount all misfortunes by the emergence after each blow of an interest in life and the world which cannot be narrowed down so much as to make one loss fatal. To be defeated by one loss or even by several is not something to be admired as a proof of sensibility, but something to be deplored as a failure in vitality. All our affections are at the mercy of death, which may strike down those whom we love at any moment. It is therefore necessary that our lives should not have that narrow intensity which puts the whole meaning and purpose of our life at the mercy of accident.'

Will endeavour to J*DI.

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Freda
19/7/2019 01:50:43 pm

That feels appropriate for both posts Rosemary and is new to me. Joie de vivre is strong in us I think.

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cathy
19/7/2019 05:39:43 am

resident procrastinator here. I can come up w more reasons to put something off, then when I actually do whatever it is, I wonder why I waited. I can come up w several words for * but all will remain in my head.

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Freda
19/7/2019 01:51:37 pm

Tee hee..

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Damsonlily
25/7/2019 11:16:17 am

Finally coming up for air after our second house move in eleven months, wifi now connected etc. and I find you embarking on Get It Done Week!
You have my complete sympathy here, Freda. The hours I am spending getting addresses changed on everything (again) comes a close second to the large number of unpacked removal boxes in the spare room, which are now not neatly and quietly waiting as they did while we were in the rental house but are glaring accusingly back at me.
Could I have sorted them while we were there? Well, you know the answer to that.....
It's so much more fun to go out and play!

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