... having important!stuff to do and procrastinating on it for weeks at a go. It's a vicious cycle: I don't have the energy for something, so I put it off; and the longer I put it off, the more it saps at my energy.

I know this, of course; but knowing it and actually having the grit and smarts to kick myself up the arse and get on with it are different things.

This weekend, though, I decided enough was enough. Excuses were just excuses, and I needed to get moving on no less than four major things (aside from study and sorting out Assignment 1) that I'd been procrastinating on over the past month (Optimum Life 06-07 financial stuff, Kiwisaver stuff, passport renewal stuff, and sorting out blurb to send to darth_sappho about the panels/discussions I'm meant to be leading at ConJunction), and it was time to do something about them. So this morning has been spent:

- Sorting through and filing the past year's bank statements and other 'must keep' correspondence - Poring through said bank statements to confirming that no further credits had gone through for my business after the point I told my accountant that it had ceased trading
- Tracking down my interest and RWT figures for the 06-07 financial year
- Double checking the actual dates my passports expire (I thought it was this year, but no, neither of them expire till 2009, so I don't need to do anything with them and can stop worrying about it)
- Gone through my Kiwisaver stuff and realised that the form I'd spent time last year tracking down wasn't in there, so I'm going to have to get another copy of it :-(

So that now leaves me with:
- Writing the blurb for my panels (I should get to that this afternoon)
- Sorting out Kiwisaver, damnit (once Gryphon has re-procured the form)
- Getting on with study (gulp)

And then, mes amis? I think I'm going to escape into the world of Atlantis for an episode or two. After Gryphon and I have been out to sort out our errands for the day, anyway.

Hugs and trying-to-get-organised-blessings





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