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PIA wrote:I'm not gonna lie...i have a thing for older men...

I'm older!


Who am I kiddin...I'm just OLD!

I know what you mean. I sit down finish a page and am amazed completely.
Then I get distracted, way too easily...........



















....this reading stuff is hard!!!!!!!!

Bubbaphan wrote:

PIA wrote:I'm not gonna lie...i have a thing for older men...

I'm older!


Who am I kiddin...I'm just OLD!

"Old" as in, "I know where I was when they walked on the moon-old", or "OLD" as in, "Larry and I fended off dinosaurs on our way to the school-cave-OLD"?

RinglingRingling wrote:

Bubbaphan wrote:

PIA wrote:I'm not gonna lie...i have a thing for older men...

I'm older!


Who am I kiddin...I'm just OLD!

"Old" as in, "I know where I was when they walked on the moon-old", or "OLD" as in, "Larry and I fended off dinosaurs on our way to the school-cave-OLD"?

well i like to keep it under 40 so larry is an exception...

well I got thru the day and met my goals, impressive. I do work best under pressure. I"ve done string writing for newspapers and always had a deadline. I could do this work easily. I could do all of this even at the last minute.

OceanCityGirl wrote:well I got thru the day and met my goals, impressive. I do work best under pressure. I"ve done string writing for newspapers and always had a deadline. I could do this work easily. I could do all of this even at the last minute.

Good Job!

When I am right on deadline on a magazine article, that's when I'm usually all over BuffettNews, reading and posting like crazy. Then I come through in a pinch!

ToplessRideFL wrote:

carolinagirl wrote: Seriously, deadlines are the ONLY way I get ANYTHING done.
!

In my case is sure helps....I do better when I know I have a certain amount of time to accomplish something.

Come to think of it.....maybe thats why I have a phlocking several times a year..... You should see the list of "TO DO'S" I know have to have finished by 9/22.

Of course some of that list is not necessarily my TO DO...but Mr. Top's..... And there lies a problem! However to his credit.... he works better under a deadline as well.

me too

OceanCityGirl wrote:well I got thru the day and met my goals, impressive. I do work best under pressure. I"ve done string writing for newspapers and always had a deadline. I could do this work easily. I could do all of this even at the last minute.

Honestly, I tend to think setting reasonable or small goals helps...it's not so overwhelming that way...and you can cross more stuff off a list, too.

Maybe Herman and Jimmy had something with that "write a page a day" routine.

10 ways to avoid procrastination:

1.

I have a huge problem with this...

When I really want to get something done, I write it on a Post-it note
and stick it inside my front door, and I can't remove til it's done.
I keep it down to no more than 3 at a time, cuz if the "list" appears manageable
it WILL get done faster!

It's not perfect... hell, who is?.... but it's really helped me a lot!

Procrastinate while you still can!

And I schedule things- Tomorrow evening we're moving the table in and clearing out the laundry room so we can use the old table for folding clothes. Saturday we're probably going to stucco the bedroom, and bathroom if the bedroom is easy and turns out well.

Quiet and Shy wrote:

OceanCityGirl wrote:well I got thru the day and met my goals, impressive. I do work best under pressure. I"ve done string writing for newspapers and always had a deadline. I could do this work easily. I could do all of this even at the last minute.

Honestly, I tend to think setting reasonable or small goals helps...it's not so overwhelming that way...and you can cross more stuff off a list, too.

Maybe Herman and Jimmy had something with that "write a page a day" routine.

PLEASE

Don't screw up your book by writing on a schedule and setting dead lines. Ernie Hemingway got up and wrote for a few hours in the AM, went to the bar for rum drinks and then went fishing. He took the time to LIVE LIFE so he could CAPTURE the essence of each and every experience. Ernie touches every sence in his writing and you feel his words. Creativity can not be scheduled or prioritized. Just give yourself some "just OCG" time to let those creative juices flow. And don't forget to drink rum and go fishing

Tequila Revenge wrote:

Quiet and Shy wrote:

OceanCityGirl wrote:well I got thru the day and met my goals, impressive. I do work best under pressure. I"ve done string writing for newspapers and always had a deadline. I could do this work easily. I could do all of this even at the last minute.

Honestly, I tend to think setting reasonable or small goals helps...it's not so overwhelming that way...and you can cross more stuff off a list, too.

Maybe Herman and Jimmy had something with that "write a page a day" routine.

PLEASE

Don't screw up your book by writing on a schedule and setting dead lines. Ernie Hemingway got up and wrote for a few hours in the AM, went to the bar for rum drinks and then went fishing. He took the time to LIVE LIFE so he could CAPTURE the essence of each and every experience. Ernie touches every sence in his writing and you feel his words. Creativity can not be scheduled or prioritized. Just give yourself some "just OCG" time to let those creative juices flow. And don't forget to drink rum and go fishing

Strongly disagree... I've read many a book on writing, and they say that if you show up to work at a certain time, and don't let yourself get distracted, your muse shows up too. Hemingway had a schedule... get up early each a.m. and write as much as possible before a deadline: noon. Creativity flies out the window and is wasted if you don't schedule, plan and set deadlines. All successful writers/painters/artists are disciplined.

carolinagirl wrote:

Tequila Revenge wrote:

Quiet and Shy wrote:

OceanCityGirl wrote:well I got thru the day and met my goals, impressive. I do work best under pressure. I"ve done string writing for newspapers and always had a deadline. I could do this work easily. I could do all of this even at the last minute.

Honestly, I tend to think setting reasonable or small goals helps...it's not so overwhelming that way...and you can cross more stuff off a list, too.

Maybe Herman and Jimmy had something with that "write a page a day" routine.

PLEASE

Don't screw up your book by writing on a schedule and setting dead lines. Ernie Hemingway got up and wrote for a few hours in the AM, went to the bar for rum drinks and then went fishing. He took the time to LIVE LIFE so he could CAPTURE the essence of each and every experience. Ernie touches every sence in his writing and you feel his words. Creativity can not be scheduled or prioritized. Just give yourself some "just OCG" time to let those creative juices flow. And don't forget to drink rum and go fishing

Strongly disagree... I've read many a book on writing, and they say that if you show up to work at a certain time, and don't let yourself get distracted, your muse shows up too. Hemingway had a schedule... get up early each a.m. and write as much as possible before a deadline: noon. Creativity flies out the window and is wasted if you don't schedule, plan and set deadlines. All successful writers/painters/artists are disciplined.

I agree. I need goals or I wll get nothing done. This book didn't have a page done until I set some goals. I"m not a taskmaster and if I really want to I can take a day off to hit the beach. But I do need to put some structure into my life.

check out these quotes to motivate
http://www.ericdavid.info/default.asp?i ... ticleid=63


in there is this Hemmingway quote
When I don't write, I feel like s***. I've got the talent and I feel I'm wasting it. ~ Ernest Hemingway

RinglingRingling wrote:
you mean your house isn't always spotless?

It looked spotless to you? Ooohhhh Todd........ thank you!!!!!!!

OceanCityGirl wrote:check out these quotes to motivate
http://www.ericdavid.info/default.asp?i ... ticleid=63


in there is this Hemmingway quote
When I don't write, I feel like s***. I've got the talent and I feel I'm wasting it. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Great quotes! Thanks, OCG... You're getting me motivated!!!

Here's some more motivation from Dr. Phil's talk to the YMCA National Convention, via a phone call from my hubs:

Successful people:
1- Have a concrete vision of success.
2- Have a written plan for success.
3- Winners do things that losers WON'T do.
4- You've gotta have so much passion for what you are doing that you can't wait to get up and do what you gotta do!

I think I'll go to my room now instead of trying to explain what I meant by my commnets.

Tequila Revenge wrote:I think I'll go to my room now instead of trying to explain what I meant by my commnets.

Sorry. Didn't mean to jump on you~ I'm sure you meant to not get stressed out or pressured to write and be sure to enjoy your life... It's a hard thing to balance.