Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Four new actions - revisited

  • weight lifting (so I'm toned)
    • pain
      • boredom
      • have to get up early
      • can't chill at end of day if I go to gym
    • pleasure of not doing
      • get to sleep in
      • get to chill at end day
    • pleasure if I do it
      • toned body
      • sense of well being
      • feeling in control
      • feeling like I can follow through
      • clears my head and is stress reliever
      • would get to eat more as will be burning more
      • sense of accomplishment
  • calling abo and isha
    • pain
      • dealing with why didn't call before
      • dealing with having to do it regularly
      • might ask me to do something I don't want to do
      • not sure I want them in my life
    • pleasure of not doing
      • get to ignore it
      • not dealing with them and probable guilt trip
    • pleasure
      • i know they would be so happy if I did call
      • getting rid of guilt
      • knowing I'm helping them
      • being a responsible attentive offspring / niece
  • cooking vegetables in more interesting ways for my kids
    • pain
      • don't know how and hate to confront that
      • kids might not eat it - rejection
      • time it takes to do
      • dealing with DH when have to throw it out
      • might turn out yucky
    • pleasure of not doing
      • saving time - chilling out at end of day
    • pleasure
      • introducing kids to good cooking
      • having my family eat healthy foods
      • having variety in our meals
      • adding another skill to my repertoire
      • adding to my quest for superwoman status
  • introducing scrum/agile properly to my team
    • pain
      • resistance of team
      • getting yelled at by boss
      • might be rejected
      • might be viewed as failure
    • pleasure of not doing
      • no rejections
      • no extra effort
    • pleasure
      • a team running like clock work
      • knowing I have helped make it happen
      • teaching new ways of dealing with our issues and succeeding
      • being able to implement my dreams
      • following through
      • feeling powerful and action oriented

Four new actions

I should be coming up with four actions I have been putting off, together with pain I expect(ed) to be associated with them - ie, reason for NOT doing them so far.

Candidates:
  • weight lifting (so I'm toned)
  • calling abo and isha
  • cooking vegetables in more interesting ways for my kids
  • introducing scrum/agile properly to my team

Did it! My first two actions

  • Created the blog
  • Changed that badly scheduled lunch

This means that so far, I'm am so on the ball for this Personal Power thing. Just started on Tony Robbins's program, and I'm determined to be still me in 30 days, but a far more fabulously successful, happy, healthy and sans saddle bags. Definitely not too much to ask :)