Inertia

It's music with me. I need to prepare and send out the music for my choir for this term and seem to find lots of excuses not to get on with it - it involves filing away all the Christmas music - I hate that job!

And when I am singing in a concert I always learn the music in detail the day before the concert - why do I leave it so long?

Procrastination is the name of the game - knowing there is a deadline tends to ginger me up a bit! Pathetic really.

I make lists and prioritise. That helps me to focus and also not to get too wound up about jobs that can wait. I agree though inertia is bad news. I was like that before Xmas and although I got al my tasks done there was no joy in it. I'm a bit better now by starting to plan some things to do in the spring and summer. I hope you pick up soon .

Well I'm washed, dressed, have made the appointments for our B12 injections (which raised a laugh because I told the receptionist that we were due our B52 jabs), made lunch, ate it while talking to DD2 (housebound with the tonsillitis and cough virus as is DD1) as she wanted a chat. We have been forbidden to visit as they don't want us to catch the virus. So only 1 task completed from the list.

No food left apart from shortbread, sweets and mince pies so off to the supermarket, once I've got DH ready, to restock - the washing up and tidying will have to wait till later (or maybe tomorrow?)

I'm in the process of finding my mojo which cleared off sometime back along, I am making myself do stuff I really don't want to straight away, (another poster was very helpful on this subject) have been doing this only a couple of days, I know, early days, but am feeling quite chuffed with myself, think I caught passing glimpse of lost mojo this morning. Feeling flat as a fart is a miserable time, especially in this god damn awful weather, I see you forced yourself to the bank so you are on the way, maybe you could rope in DH to help? Sometimes just saying something out loud helps me, my dd had some good advice when I was moaning about having no will power about over eating, just say out loud I will have that tomorrow, that seems to work for me sometimes.... I do hope you can find something to revitalise you

I allow myself little rewards if I tackle a task which I don't really want to do. For instance, if I clean the oven I might allow myself to eat a bar of chocolate or whatever.
At the moment I have a mountain of paperwork that needs sorting, so if I can get to grips with it I might allow myself a day shopping and lunch out in Exeter soon.
This seems to work for me, - most of the time!

Set a timer. It's amazing what you can achieve in 10 minutes if you know that's time allocated. When I don't feel like doing the vacuuming/floor washing/whatever I set a time for half and hour and lo and behold, it is done and I have the rest of the day free instead of procrastinating it away ... with the vacuuming/floor washing/whatever still not done ...