This post is part of the series “30-day trial: Authority–I am the boss of me”. Go to: Day 5 | Day 7
Tasks for Day #6 (October 29, 2009)
Chosen Tasks:
#1) Send an email at work soliciting organizational tips.
#2) Write out a pledge to eat healthy tomorrow and follow it!
#3) Post cacao raw chili recipe from Monday’s potluck on the Madison Raw Food meetup site.
Randomly picked article: Update my Sound Sensitivity Article–due to be posted on Thursday October 29th.
Listen to Goal Setting CD
Random Strategy From Personal Development for Smart People: #12 Agendas-I need provide clear written agendas to meeting participants in advance, including for important phone calls.
Comments: Hmmm. I am having some evil thoughts right now about how my random strategy about setting agendas is going to interface with my day tomorrow.
Day 6 Results
I had a hard time incorporating the strategy of setting agendas, because frankly, I did not want to make up any meetings with other people in order to use the random strategy. So instead, I used it as an internal strategy. I set agendas with myself throughout the day and followed them. However I failed to give myself a written copy of the agenda ahead of time–it was all mental.
As a follow up to the masterminding theme from yesterday, I did send a survey to coworkers and former coworkers that I perceived to be more organized than myself and asked them questions about their workspace organization habits, including how they handle email and electronic files. I also invited them to provide me with their best tip based on any observations they had about me specifically. I look forward to receiving the feedback!
In the morning, I wrote out a simple pledge to eat healthy–”eat well; do not eat junk; it is that simple.” This technique was really effective. My eating has been a little out of kilter lately and I really cleaned up my act today. This was significant because we celebrated Halloween today at work and there was junk food abound. Yesterday I was given a cup of chocolates and I ate them all. Today I abandoned all the chocolates I received and I refrained from eating the pizza my coworkers and I won for winning the best group costume prize. Pizza is a non-food item as far as I am concerned…unless it is raw pizza.
I did my goal getter hypnosis CD after taking a hot shower. Wonderful!
I posted by cacao raw food chili recipe to the Madison Raw Foods Meetup site
This evening, I sat down and wrote the update to my Sound Sensitivity article in a rather short period of time. The trick was to pick three subtopics and focus on them. I can always address other topics in a different posting. I am happy with the update even if it is not perfect. Yesterday, I indicated that I would incorporate masterminding into the article. It did not flow that way. It will be an invitation incorporated into a future post. For now,it feels so good not to be blocked. Write…post…write…post.
