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[rdwaynewright]

Got a lot done today. Most of my paper, cleaning, curtains/blinds installed, made out my daily schedule for tomorrow! Much easier to make a schedule the day before instead of the day of. I also met two really nice homeless people. One was a man named Bill (I think; I'm terrible with names) and I met him on the way to my appointment with my therapist. He's staying at a local church. He was telling me his story and stuff. I wish I'd had more time to talk but I was running a little late for my appointment. :/ I hate having to rush off after talking only a couple of minutes.

The other man's name I didn't get but he was selling a paper called One Step Away for $1. It's a paper written by the homeless in shelters and then other homeless people sell the paper on the streets and in train stations for $1. They get to keep $.75 and the remaining $.25 goes towards the production of the paper. I think it's a brilliant idea. The stories are really interesting in the paper and you get to see just what people are struggling with. There's even a guest article by Prince William in the paper. He wrote the article for an international organization comprised of homeless newspapers in multiple countries (his charity serves the homeless) and they republished it in One Step Away as a guest column. I thought it was pretty cool.

I wish I'd given the man more than a dollar but hopefully I'll see him again. I saved my other two because I was looking for this older veteran who'd been there only a moment before asking for change. I went to get a couple of bucks because I felt bad but when I came back, the veteran was gone. :( Interestingly, this younger guy was in almost the same spot when I got back and he was homeless too.

Funny how that worked out.

Comments

[phantomkennel.livejournal.com]

Good for you being productive. I got a few things done today but still too distractable. Feel like I'm getting back on track. I'd been doing well this year but somehow my brain unraveled last week. You keep it up!

[ayaneva.livejournal.com]

My therapist is making me write out my schedule for the next day the night before. i was supposed to start doing that last week but I kept forgetting! I wrote my schedule for tomorrow and I'm only allowing myself a couple hours of internet time, since I have a paper to work on. I even blocked out my schedule on my phone and set reminders to try and keep myself on task. If I don't have a pre-planned structure for my day, I get absolutely nothing done because I don't know where or when to start. For that reason, task lists have no effect. I have to have set times for things. So I have my schedule from 10am to 11:30pm all written down for tomorrow.

Maybe you can try the "schedule the night before" thing and just schedule times to do stuff. It might not have to be as precise as my schedule but I think having specific times helps for important things helps.

[phantomkennel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I definitely need to structure things more and break things into small pieces. I know the tricks that work for me, just need to make myself do them! I find that even getting more organized at home helps, like you talked about at the start of your post - if I make myself stay on top of one part of my life it helps the others go more smoothly.

[blown-lightbulb.livejournal.com]

That paper sounds so amazing. :D

[ayaneva.livejournal.com]

It really is!