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Phew! The week is over and it has been a humdinger! I’m proud to announce that I was faithful and completed my penalty daily. I wanted to honor your serious acceptance of the Challenge, Vintage Treasures. So I was serious in my tasks. I did not realize how much of an impact it would have on my day!
To complete the questions, I had to be thoughtful and consider my end goal. This made me more mindful of what I was putting into my To Do List. Going over the TDL, I saw there were several items I could do in 30 minutes or less. What if I actually did them, knocked them out? Sure, it would take up a couple hours of my day, but it would wipe out a whole batch of numbers on the loooong daily grind. So I did them. The rest of the day was open for the bigger tasks that I could get chewing on. It was so freeing; I felt lighter, more enthusiastic, motivated.
So I did it again the next day. And the next. By this time, I ran out of small items to cross off, so instead I hit the items that weren’t short on time, but short on energy. These were often stepping stones. By turning my focus to the third question, I began to bite off larger chunks of the bigger items.
I’ve astonished myself. I cannot recall clearing so much of my weekly goals in a very long time. Things that were hanging over my head, things I’ve been putting off, things I would have put off in a normal week. All gone! Please note – we’re not talking eBay stuff here. I’m talking my FULL list. Everything from financials, to housework, to cleaning out the cat’s litter box. And the floor. And the walls behind the litter box. (I’ve ordered a bigger box, this cat has the aim of a blind farmer missing a barn with a rock salt shotgun!) (I can’t wait for her to learn there’s a HUGE litter box outside!) (We adopted her last month to replace the cat that got eaten.) (She’s a rescue, in bad shape.) (Hey… these parentheses are cool!)
Seven full days later and I’m exhausted and elated. I am motivated. I’m on a roll and can’t wait to see how far I go before I run out of steam. Let’s pray this is one of those self-powering rolls, so that I only go faster! LOL.
Re eBay, I completed my Challenge this week, listing all Death Pile items. I did not work through the 8 steps, though. I plan to incorporate those into my weekly schedule going forward, but I want to see how they fit into the new plan. I don’t want to lose all this forward momentum. Check out my numbers over on the Trash Elf Listing Challenge. I have a funny story to share there too!
Your keywords are Native American Papoose Doll.
I couldn’t find any info that helps you, but there were a bunch of similar styled dolls using those keywords.
Spreadsheet updated. Vintage Lacy puts her foot down and zooms into the lead again!
Oh, that’s brilliant! I enjoyed that! I missed the original Monty Python boat, and I do love catching up!
Yes ma’am. Answering the questions. I didn’t actually add them to my TDL, I just wrote the questions at the top of the day’s TDL page, so that I do them when I’m putting together my TDL. It’s the one thing that I tend to do first every work day – update the TDL – so it means that I will complete my quest… er… I mean penalty.
Green is not a good color on me… and I so very, very green right now!
What an awesome set up! Thanks for sharing.
If you’re thinking of getting moderators on Reddit, wouldn’t it work to just put moderators here? Same diffs, better outcome? You have moderator options in this forum. A Mod would take a lot of the grunt work off your hands.
I vote Mike be a Mod! 😀 😀 😀 😀
Welcome back, ChristineR. So glad you’re still with us, even if your head’s not back in the game yet.
Join Vintage Treasures and I in the Death Pile Challenge, if you like, over in the DP Support Group. But be warned, there be penalties if you don’t make it! VT is SERIOUS! 😀 Perhaps join in the Fall after College and your Dad’s stuff is all done.
I laughed out loud as I read your “glee” part! You are just awesome! I’ve written my 3 starters on the top of tomorrow’s TDL so that I START the day with them. Today, they’re at the bottom of the TDL, but I will close out on Sunday and report back.
Thank you for taking this seriously. I really appreciate it!
Well done on your achievements. I’m looking forward to hearing how your outside-the-box item works out.
Hey folks! Wow, you had a great week, both of you. Well done!
Not such a good week for me, the flu/cold/virus that I’ve been fending off for the past two weeks was victorious and I spent most of the week contemplating my mortality. 🙁
Despite best intentions, listed 5 items, of which only 4 were Death Pile. VT, you need to pop over to the Challenge and decide my fate!
Not a good week! 🙁
I’ve been fighting off the flu for about two weeks now, guzzling Vit C and stuff, but I think all the stress just lately was one step too much and I was down and out. 4th of July was spent huddled in bed feeling sorry for myself. Happy holiday! Not.
Despite best intentions to get my listings done, I only managed 4 Death Pile items.
So, Vintage Treasures, what’s my penalty?
eBay told me it was a glitch in the system and would I please “search through my listings manually and end any that were sold.” Not very helpful, considering I learned about it from having a sold item sold again. 🙁
I’ve done several searches and it keeps coming back with zero results. Can you post the link?
