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Monday, October 3, 2011

Success Team Update

Friday night I was all aflutter. There were still un-done tasks on my Success Team to-do list and the ST meeting was scheduled for 6:30 the next morning. What's a girl to do? HURRY that's what!

Two items on last week's list were very important to me:
1.) Order a copy of the inquest file for my great-granduncle. I've wanted this file forEVER. In less than 15 minutes I prepared a letter, added a photocopy, addressed, stamped and sealed the envelope. D.O.N.E.

2.) Ask for help reading a name on my 2nd great-grandfather's death certificate. I decided to ask an expert for help with this one, I just had to DO it. Email wasn't available, so back to the old-fashioned way. In less than 15 minutes I prepared a letter, added a photocopy, addressed, stamped and sealed the envelope. D.O.N.E.
Upper right-hand corner - what is Mama's maiden name?
Why did it take so long to start important tasks that took so little time to accomplish? I don't think of myself as a procrastinator, so what's up? Ya know what I think it is? I finish EVERYTHING ELSE first, and then I turn to my family tree. By then I'm too pooped to pop, so my research takes a back seat.

This week's list is a little lighter. And I've already tackled a few of the items trying to stay ahead of the game.

The most challenging task didn't actually make it to the list, but it was part of Saturday's discussion; explore ways to incorporate the things we WANT to do into our daily to-do lists.

Go Team!

3 comments:

Sherri said...

Love the addition of the video to your post. We really let things get to us too often in this day and age...always frantically running around and worried that we are late! Enjoyed this post.

Laura Aanenson said...

Thanks Sherri, that rabbit pops into my thoughts often these days. LOL Glad you enjoyed him too!

Eric Jorgensen said...

I'll be watching for any updates on the expert's take as well, but judging by individual character matching, my guess is "Anna Wigden" or "Anna Wigdeu". But then I second-guess myself that a "barely broken g" could be a "compressed-for-space y"; and "Wiyden" brings to mind Widen (formerly Wyda, and "Weide" in German), a village in northern Switzerland.

Curiouser and curiouser! ^_^

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