Comments on: Friday miscellany: When you don’t stick to the plan

By: Marcia @ Organising Queen

Marcia @ Organising Queen — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 18:49:08 +0000

For me, it’s almost always because I have too many things on the list and I (somehow) think I’m Superwoman.

I had a ton of things (out and about things) yesterday, had a headache because of all the running around in the heat (South Africa), and then my body forced a shut-down so I was in bed at 6.45 pm…..

So I’ve had to scrap about 4 – 5 things I wanted to do, but just couldn’t from my weekend to-do list.

I put a post on Instagram about this earlier today
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf5aPn3DX7L/?taken-by=organisingqueen

By: Tana

Tana — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:47:44 +0000

I am too depleted to tackle the plan. That’s the problem 90% of the time. I also live amidst chaos and cannot also focus like I need to. Sometimes it will take all morning to do poorly what should have only taken an hour had I been able to focus. But doing the things I want to do? It’s always that I am too depleted to push myself that much harder. Thanks for verbalizing that one – it’s not usually on lists of why we don’t get things done.

By: Betsy Ramser Jaime

Betsy Ramser Jaime — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 19:33:08 +0000

Thanks, Laura! These are great reminders.

By: Christina Rhebergen

Christina Rhebergen — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 13:30:37 +0000

Great reminders.

Just to make sure I’m understanding you correctly in your first point, should it read “thAn do 7 random things…”?

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:08:52 +0000

I didn’t realise until I had the baby just how much my ability to complete a to-do list or stick to a plan to accomplish things was dependant on my energy levels. The amount of sleep I have on any given night is directly related to the amount I can do the following day…and I no longer have absolute control over my sleep.

By: Alexicographer

Alexicographer — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 04:23:48 +0000

In reply to lauravanderkam. I try to remind myself that it is better to have more stuff I want to do than I can do, than the other way around, though I suppose that is a point about which reasonable people might disagree.

By: lauravanderkam

lauravanderkam — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:34:04 +0000

In reply to Omdg. @Omdg- being realistic *is* hard. It requires admitting that stuff that is really amazing and that we may want to do probably isn't going to happen. I do think it's worthwhile to live in reality, but fantasy-land is always appealing.

By: Omdg

Omdg — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 16:36:01 +0000

When I don’t stick to my work, it’s almost always because my to do list is too long. When I don’t stick to fun plans usually it’s becsuse when the time comes I’d rather do something else. I’ve been trying to be more realistic about how much I can get done, but it is so, so hard and the list just gets longer and longer.