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| Journal pages - thank you to Daniel |
It is time to enjoy a few blog posts from around the internet, grab a drink and make yourself comfortable for our weekly round-up.In my recent mid-year review, I noticed I have an entire list of tasks I've been procrastinating and moving from month to month. Some of them I've been putting off for years! Instead of just moving them forward again, I decided to dig a little deeper and figure out why I've been procrastinating them.
I wrote up a new list, and next to each task I wrote why I've been putting it off. This was eye-opening and forced myself to be honest. Some tasks carry a lot of emotional weight that I don't want to confront. Some tasks require technological skills or information that I don't have. Some of these cost money I don't really want to spend, or are multi-step time consuming projects I never seem to find the time for. The longest-procrastinated tasks combine several of these aspects. (Example: to transfer photos from a 20 year old external hard drive (where they were saved from a Windows desktop) to my iCloud via my macbook, which filled up my macbook's hard drive as it sees them as files not Photos, etc etc.)
Once I had figured out why I'd procrastinated each task, I started to write some solutions. Who to ask for more information, how to psyche myself up to actually do the things, when I can schedule time to do some of these things.
This exercise was very enlightening, and if nothing else now I know why I've been putting off these particular actions!
Do you tend to procrastinate intimidating tasks? What helps you confront them?
And as always on Fridays feel free to ask and/ or discuss anything ring organiser related!
Have a great weekend everyone!
We are very grateful to Paul for his wonderful guest post series here.
We thought it would be helpful to maintain an index of all his posts, which will be updated with any new content.
No. 1 The road back to Winchester
No. 2 DIY calendar
No. 3 Why modern technology doesn't satisfy
No. 4 Filohax: Time for a change
No. 5 Filohax: A Pigskin story
No. 6 Filohax on holiday
No. 7 To pen loop or not to pen loop
No. 8 The Filohax Filofax Filosophy - a first year review
No. 9 Balmoral 10 CLFJ 5/4
No. 10 Flatability's Filofax pen hack
No. 11 Filohax sketchbook
No. 12 Making my own inserts
No. 13 Argyll C2CLF 7/8
No. 14 Filohax Gloucester review
No. 15 Filohax wallet
No. 16 Filofax Grosvenor review
No. 17 You can only write on one insert at a time, so why try to carry them all?
No. 18 Cavendish/Portland big rings review
No. 19 Decoration... for Men (or for anyone really)
No. 20 To mollycoddle or not to mollycoddle...
No. 21 Sunbathing experiment
No. 22 Why tech needs analogue
No. 23 Simple Perfection
No. 24 The A to Z of maximalism vs minimalism
No. 25 Don't take Filofax damage lying down...
No. 26 Zibaldone zone
No. 27 Filofax Winchester Ostrich skin review
No. 28 Just enough space
No. 29 Indexing your life- 'one binder to rule them all'
Winchester 4CLF 7/8 / Tintin album
Winchester 4CCF 7/8 / Observer's Book of Birds and book of Birds Eggs
Argyll C2CLF 7/8 / Battle comic
Winchester 5CLF 7/8 / View Master
Winchester 5CLF 7/8 double gusset/ Battle comic
Winchester 4PLF 5/4 / 25 years old Moleskine sketch books
Argyll 2CLF 7/8 / Brooke Bond Picture cards
Winchester 4PLF 5/4 / World War 2 magazine collectors cards
Balmoral 10CLFJ 5/4 / World War Two magazine collectors cards
Kid leather slim personal and Viewmaster reels album
Swatch Mezza Luna on Filofax Ostrich skin Winchester
1994 Swiss Army Knife and Slimline Executive in Kid leather
Grosvenor 9KLF 7/8 and Observers Books
Winchester real Ostrich and 'What to look for in Winter' Ladybird book
Winchester 4CCF and 1979 Alien graphic novel
My first Filofax Winchester and Matchbox series 75 Ferrari Berlinetta
Winchester 5/4 Pigskin and Tintin album 'Explorers on the Moon'
I hope you have had a good weekend.