How I Planned My Day

Good Day

I had a pretty good day, productivity-wise. Not bad at all, even with my having started late.

email

I've got my work email down to 7 items. I wonder how long I can keep it that way?

Doing much better today

I’m feeling much better today.  I think that the Fanapt is finally out of my system.  I made my second-best time getting to work this morning.  I have been pretty diligent with the two items I set myself to work on today too.  Very nice.

 

I had a craving for eggs today, which means that I needed some protein.

Oops, forgot to mention ...

... that as of this morning, I have gotten a project completed! I even got it done early, so I might get some extra points on my review at the end of the year! Woo-hoo!!!!

Pretty good day today

I actually got a bit of work done today, even with dealing with the residual tasks from yesterday's silent auction. Finally! And, I even was willing to tag my time, probably because I was getting something done. I've noticed that whenever I am anxious to put off tracking my time, I'm usually not being very productive. Due to the med I was trying, I was like that for almost two whole weeks! Jeez!

FW: Time Management ... and saying no ... and 2 Alsos

 

 

From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 7:36 AM
To: Collins, Monica P.; Bradford, Mickey L.
Subject: RE: Time Management ... and saying no ... and 2 Alsos

 

I don’t know if I have mentioned this before, but work wise things took on a whole new perspective when we changed our rating system.  When it was ‘show us what you did’, I did ok.  When it changed to ‘tell us what you will do’ around 2003, things became much harder.

 

I have gotten a few concessions, the most important one being that I don’t have all of my assignments dumped on my at one time.  I’m only expected to be concentrating on one at a time.  I currently have three that I have scheduled myself to work on because two of them are due EOM October.

 

Thanks ….

 

Monica Collins

 

 

From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 4:12 PM
To: Bradford, Mickey L.
Subject: Time Management ... and saying no

 

I have three things that I have planned to work on this week:

·         SR #12842 (SHOW ZIPS FOR VC ON  CYR-ACS POINT OF ORIGIN), which I have set as due by EOM October;

·         SR #16011 ( CONVERT CATALOG POS TO LASER PRINT), which I have also set as due by EOM October;

·         Work on SDLC Documents, which is due by EOM January.

I also have to spend some time this week preparing my new Windows 7 PC.

 

In the attached PDF, I have included the schedule that I set up for myself to accomplish this year’s goals. 

 

These are various time management courses that I have at one time accessed:

Elements of Project Time Management	Currently taking
The Fundamentals of Effective Thinking	Started
Problem Framing	Will be taking
Problem Solving- Generating Alternatives	Will be taking
Developing Excellent Time Management Habits	Will be taking
Developing Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills	Have taken
Developing Good Time Management Habits	Have taken
Introduction to IT Project Management	Have taken
Techniques for Improved Time Management	Have taken
An Introduction to Project Management	Have taken
Your Time and You	Have taken

 

I’ve included a conversation that I had a bit ago, concerning saying no.  I don’t argue that I help others far too much.  An example would be what caused me to be late to today’s meeting.  I don’t even know if it was my job to handle the little file problem they had (I really doubt it).  And, ‘it’ll only take 5 minutes’ usually doesn’t, although this one was close.  And I do know that adage that a problem on someone else’s part does not constitute a problem on my part.

 

 

Marks, Sanford J. [1:54 PM]:

if I wnat the max amendma=ent number is sql what do i code?

Collins, Monica P. [2:43 PM]:

i think that i used amendment max

i'd have to pull up one of the progrms and see

Marks, Sanford J. [2:43 PM]:

 =

amendment max

?

Collins, Monica P. [2:49 PM]:

Why is PTLDTBLS in byt RETAI and QUALI?

Marks, Sanford J. [2:50 PM]:

because qual does it's own thing

leave it be

Collins, Monica P. [2:55 PM]:

can i submit an endevor package if i am only updating procs and parms?

Marks, Sanford J. [2:57 PM]:

yes

Collins, Monica P. [3:08 PM]:

k, look at paragraph 2000-GET-SINGLE in PTGTANUM.

Marks, Sanford J. [3:09 PM]:

k   ty

 

 

Again

Today, yet again, I have accomplished very little. Sad.

How I Did Yesterday

FW: Conversation with Lacy, Robert P.

 

 

From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 10:16 AM
To: Lacy, Robert P.; Collins, Monica P.
Subject: Conversation with Lacy, Robert P.

 

Collins, Monica P. [7:07 AM]:

k, we need a title for massey

Lacy, Robert P. [7:16 AM]:

rocket scientist

we've all been calling him that

cause technically, he is

Collins, Monica P. [7:18 AM]:

noooo, no, no, i meant since we are now his padiwans(sp).  Mr RS, maybe ...

Lacy, Robert P. [7:18 AM]:

hmm

Collins, Monica P. [7:21 AM]:

k, here's my plan for my iPods:

Collins, Monica P. [7:26 AM]:

* This week, special order a WD 1TB Passport from here.  Because we carry others for this particular make, I should be able to hopefully special order it and also get 20% off as well.  I'll order another one the next time we have 20% off again. 

Collins, Monica P. [7:28 AM]:

Remove most everything from my iPods, except for my favs in each genre.  I'm thinking that I might go ahead and remove the extraneous stuff from iTunes as well, since it is a secondary catalog, because everything resides on external drives.

Lacy, Robert P. [7:28 AM]:

lol

Collins, Monica P. [7:29 AM]:

* And, I'd also keep my videos.  What's so funny?

Lacy, Robert P. [7:29 AM]:

so you will just bring the drive to work

and listen to stuff off of that?

Collins, Monica P. [9:25 AM]:

Actually, what will happen is this:

Go down to 2 ipods, with following: videos; fav albums; white noise; playlists.

I will then copy as much as I can to the 1TB Passport.  The rest will get copied later this year when I purchase a 2nd one.

Being that I will be down to two pods, I can go back to carrying the music one in my purse again.

[9:27 AM] The conversation has been marked with high importance.

Collins, Monica P. [9:29 AM]:

(somehow, I keep hitting some key combination that turns on high importance.)

Lacy, Robert P. [9:30 AM]:

lolk

Collins, Monica P. [9:30 AM]:

Anytime that I want to listen to something not already on the iPod, I can plug the Passport into this PC.

now what's so funny?

you mean the high importance?

I have no idea how I've done it.  It's the second time in two days lol.

Lacy, Robert P. [9:33 AM]:

hmm

Collins, Monica P. [9:53 AM]:

did you only answer the one email?

Collins, Monica P. [9:55 AM]:

still sleepy?

Lacy, Robert P. [9:56 AM]:

always

Collins, Monica P. [10:01 AM]:

Oh, should I run my converting the shop.aafes.com mobile app with Scott before or after I do it?

Lacy, Robert P. [10:03 AM]:

after

suprise

Collins, Monica P. [10:04 AM]:

Yeah, I figured you'd say that.  That usually has a way of backfiring, but I guess that I'll have to muddle through somehow.

Last Week

* I've got my goals set for next year. I might actually have a chance of accomplishing them. I really need to, since receiving a promotions seems to be the only way that I'm going to get a raise, since I'm at the top of my tier right now.

Monitoring My Time Last Week

Last week, I was not good at all with recording my tags in ManicTime. This morning, I had to finish tagging just about every day last week, because I did not do it on those days. Last week was a bit hectic and I kept skipping it. Between that and skipping because I know that I have not done enough within a given hour, I do myself in.