My day as a list

Thought I would try something different and write out my day as a list.  Yesterday was a particularly unproductive day and I felt very frustrated by not getting a lot done.  Tuesday on the other hand had been a really good day. I had managed to complete a few tax returns. Anyway, this was my day yesterday:

• Press snooze
• Wake up
• Shower
• Quickly get ready
• Wake up the girls

• Resist the urge to pick up my phone
• Clean their teeth
• Cajole them downstairs for breakfast
• Get their breakfast out
• Drink hot water and lemon
• Unload last nights dishwasher
• Hurry the girls
• Send them up to get changed
• Clean their breakfast away
• Get them changed into their uniforms
• Break up a fight
• Comb their hair
• Break up another fight
• Get them downstairs
• Get their shoes and coat on
• Remind them to pick up their bags
• Get them into the car
• Put seat belts on
• Breathe
• Go to school
• Diplomatically decide which one to take into class first
• Take the eldest in first as usual
• Extract the youngest off my leg and into her class
• Drive home
• Put the kettle on and bread in the toaster
• Put laptop on
• Take coffee and toast to desk
• Check my things to do list
• Start working
• Reply to work email queries
• Put the fan heater on
• Make another coffee
• Think about dinner
• Check the fridge for dinner
• Make a shopping list
• Go back to desk to work
• Phone mum to make sure everyone at home is well
• Declutter my personal email (aka. procrastination)
• Do some things I forgot to put on my to do list
• Do one thing on my to do list
• Have lunch
• Prepare the girls snack
• Contemplate going food shopping
• Put off going food shopping
• Work for an hour as I now only have an hour
• Time for school run just as I’m getting into my work
• Get there early enough to get good parking
• Sit in the car and check my phone
• Walk to the school gates
• Pick up the youngest first and walk over to pick up the eldest
• Drag them out of the playground to go home
• Dodge the speeding cars around blind corners
• Finally get home
• Give the girls their snack
• Tell them to get changed
• Rush them out of the house for swimming lessons
• Do some school reading with the girls as they take it in turns to go to their swimming lessons
• Go home
• Cook the girls dinner while trying to make them do some homework
• Feed the girls
• Cook our dinner
• Take the girls upstairs
• Give the girls a shower and wash hair
• Husband home
• Leave husband to get them ready for bed
• Go shopping
• Buy too much but hold onto the receipt
• Come back and put shopping away
• Tuck the girls to sleep
• Finish cooking
• Eat
• Watch TV
• Do some writing – this blog
• Create a to do list for tomorrow
• Clean
• Go to bed

Not a bad day really but was very tired all day. On Tuesday when I did get a lot of work done, I promised myself that if I do the tax returns which had been bugging me for about two weeks (well, for a few months), I’d go yoga on Wednesday in the day time.  Somehow that was enough incentive to actually do some work.

Yesterday I didn’t have any incentive except that I really, really, really ought to do it.  I might possibly need to create rewards for myself to get some work done. Or at least the stuff that I keep putting off doing.