This is who I am nowadays.... when it comes to my online training.... ack!
I committed myself to 350 hours of online training (plus homework and assignments) which I need to finish within 1 year. I have til March 2013. It's far away enough we think, but it's not really, considering I have completed only 1 month's worth of online studying since 4 months ago. This course usually takes people 6 months average/minimum of focused attention to finish. Until October 2012, I am squeezing it between work and other commitments (which includes other lectures/classroom sessions with lots of reading and homework until end of this year!). I am also aware I plan to travel for at least 4 weeks between October and December, so again, 1 month less "free" time to concentrate on it. Then the Holiday Season before... MARCH 2012!!
I have to stop procrastinating NOW!
I make some novel plan to take a day off work (like today) to tackle it all day. ALL DAY, concentrated work for at least 8 hours. But it's minutes shy of 3pm now and I still haven't logged in!!! My downfall started as soon as I turned on my laptop (9am). I checked my email first, and in it was a promo for cheap flights!!! I'm waiting for a friend to decide whether we are taking the deal I found, etchetera.... Since I was in that mindframe I also started looking into another route I planned to do between October and November, or mid-to-early-next-year. And discussed it with another friend from one of those countries being considered. :-)
When I felt I wasted enough time (11.30am), I closed all the tabs and files related to travel... and instead of finally logging in.... I decided to cook Mexican for the first time!!! I wasn't hungry. I just HAD TO do it now! ;-) I couldn't wait until dinner. I was excited to do it, been waiting since last week to cook, but it was always too late to after reaching home past 10pm, or I grabbed a fast meal outside instead.
Anyway, lotsa preparing, cleaning, serving, eating, self-congratulating, photo-taking and many dishes (not only Mexican) cooked later... as in now... I think I will just crash and watch a movie or take a nap. I'm too relaxed, distracted and don't want to do homework. I have an unrelated class to attend at 7pm today. I will just take it easy until then. :-)
P.S.
Obviously, writing this post was another way I avoided what I really needed to do...!! ;-)
Procrastination this week started from Saturday night really, that's why I termed myself the "great procrastinator". I always found ways to do "other things", that were/seemed more important, heheheh ack!
I was rushing home to have dinner then sit down to study. I bumped into some friends/associates. They also just finished the weekend meeting I missed, to attend a conference I just left from (I caught up today with a facilitator from my group who kindly kept me informed, when I should have been in that meeting coz I will be leading tomorrow night's discussion, ack, thank you!).
I ended up having dinner with one of the ladies and we chatted the night away. It was a very good "spur of the moment" night, and I appreciated the honesty in our conversation. I crave for those conversations lately. My life has been quite routine, focused on various works. Sunday was also another chance to let my hair down - caught up with Bestie after church (and we always part from each other saying, "we should do this more often" but time just flies and pressures takes over, ugh) then Mom and another friend. Sunday night I finished several housework and built myself a wardrobe from a flat-pack (on my own, woohoo!), to free up my Monday purely to start work on my assignments. We know what happened with that plan (see above, heheheh)....
I committed myself to 350 hours of online training (plus homework and assignments) which I need to finish within 1 year. I have til March 2013. It's far away enough we think, but it's not really, considering I have completed only 1 month's worth of online studying since 4 months ago. This course usually takes people 6 months average/minimum of focused attention to finish. Until October 2012, I am squeezing it between work and other commitments (which includes other lectures/classroom sessions with lots of reading and homework until end of this year!). I am also aware I plan to travel for at least 4 weeks between October and December, so again, 1 month less "free" time to concentrate on it. Then the Holiday Season before... MARCH 2012!!
I have to stop procrastinating NOW!
I make some novel plan to take a day off work (like today) to tackle it all day. ALL DAY, concentrated work for at least 8 hours. But it's minutes shy of 3pm now and I still haven't logged in!!! My downfall started as soon as I turned on my laptop (9am). I checked my email first, and in it was a promo for cheap flights!!! I'm waiting for a friend to decide whether we are taking the deal I found, etchetera.... Since I was in that mindframe I also started looking into another route I planned to do between October and November, or mid-to-early-next-year. And discussed it with another friend from one of those countries being considered. :-)
When I felt I wasted enough time (11.30am), I closed all the tabs and files related to travel... and instead of finally logging in.... I decided to cook Mexican for the first time!!! I wasn't hungry. I just HAD TO do it now! ;-) I couldn't wait until dinner. I was excited to do it, been waiting since last week to cook, but it was always too late to after reaching home past 10pm, or I grabbed a fast meal outside instead.Anyway, lotsa preparing, cleaning, serving, eating, self-congratulating, photo-taking and many dishes (not only Mexican) cooked later... as in now... I think I will just crash and watch a movie or take a nap. I'm too relaxed, distracted and don't want to do homework. I have an unrelated class to attend at 7pm today. I will just take it easy until then. :-)
P.S.
Obviously, writing this post was another way I avoided what I really needed to do...!! ;-)
Procrastination this week started from Saturday night really, that's why I termed myself the "great procrastinator". I always found ways to do "other things", that were/seemed more important, heheheh ack!
I was rushing home to have dinner then sit down to study. I bumped into some friends/associates. They also just finished the weekend meeting I missed, to attend a conference I just left from (I caught up today with a facilitator from my group who kindly kept me informed, when I should have been in that meeting coz I will be leading tomorrow night's discussion, ack, thank you!).
I ended up having dinner with one of the ladies and we chatted the night away. It was a very good "spur of the moment" night, and I appreciated the honesty in our conversation. I crave for those conversations lately. My life has been quite routine, focused on various works. Sunday was also another chance to let my hair down - caught up with Bestie after church (and we always part from each other saying, "we should do this more often" but time just flies and pressures takes over, ugh) then Mom and another friend. Sunday night I finished several housework and built myself a wardrobe from a flat-pack (on my own, woohoo!), to free up my Monday purely to start work on my assignments. We know what happened with that plan (see above, heheheh)....
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