Are You Worried about Fitting In?
Recently I've come to think Procrastinators may be overly conscious about fitting in. For example, we may be more likely to think... Is it good enough? rather than Does it stand out? We may be more likely to worry... Does it sound right? instead of asking Have I said...
Some of the Best Advice I've Ever Received
Happy New Year Everyone. As you may have guessed by the image above, I've fallen a bit behind on my own self-imposed blogging schedule, just to prove to you I know what I'm talking about when it comes to Procrastination. Though it may be a bit late to send you a...
Accept Your Losses
Many, many years ago, I made an unwise decision about where to put my money. I don’t recall the exact details of where I spent that money, but I’ll never remember what my friend said to me when I was thinking about my next money move. He said, “Remember the Chinese...
Techniques to Try: Take a Pause
This may seem ironic, but I do believe Procrastinators are terrible at taking breaks and resting. Just awful. While others may believe Procrastinators are blowing things off or just chillin’, Procrastinators are being incredibly busy doing some of the following...
What Other People Don't Understand about Procrastinators
There's a whole bunch of things I don’t understand about people who do not Procrastinate. I don’t understand how they can break through their anxiety every time. I don’t know how they can keep to their own plans every time. I don’t know how they must feel when they...
Rediscover Fun and the Feeling of Being Free
Procrastinators are real drags. We complain. We mope. We are heavy in spirit. We have lost the pleasure of having fun because we feel like we are behind time. As if time is running ahead of us. That is certainly not a fun feeling. Others around us don't really know...
Technique to Try: Put One Thing First
Celebrating 100 Posts! (Lessons Learned Too)
Celebrating 100 posts! YAHOO! Maintaining this blog has become a great creative outlet for me both personally and professionally. It’s also been a tremendous learning experience. Every time I sit down to write, it’s a new adventure. If you've been following my...
How to Determine If You are a Perfectionist
I often am asked if perfectionism is linked to Procrastination. I answer with a resounding "Yes!" We Procrastinators hold back from completing what we start, for fear of being found out for the imperfect creatures we feel ourselves to be. We each have different...
Consider Yourself In
This morning I felt inspired to write about considering yourself in. Part of the inspiration came from the Lao Tzu quote above. When you take the meaning of the quote in, it's breath-taking. We are master creators of myths, dramas, illusions, pictures, nightmares,...
Technique to Try: Get Rid of the Excess
It's very easy to accumulate things. E-mail comes in without our asking it to. Laundry piles swell unremittingly. Daily snail mail brings with it a pile of paper. Everything we say "yes" to tends to hang around until we actually do something to terminate it....
Technique to Try: Thinking More Clearly
If I'm honest with myself, well, then I don't feel much like myself. I am a terrific liar to myself. I tell myself: I can fit 20 minutes into the space of 10 I can feel great tomorrow even if I go to bed at 2:30 a.m. I can skip the process of putting important to-do...
Derek Jeter Reveals a Secret to His Success
I hesitated about writing a post about Derek Jeter because hey: I don't follow baseball everyone else is writing about Jeter I wouldn't want you to think Derek told me his secret to me in person #heehee Despite my reservations, I could not resist writing about...
Communication Needs to be Transactional {to be Good}
Since I spend my days working as a psychologist, I spend a lot of time thinking about, participating in, and looking at communication and communication dynamics. I think about: what people are saying what they are not saying what they want to say what I want and...
8 Methods to Cope with Procrastination-Caused Stress
When we Procrastinate, we create opportunities for a chaotic mess of cognitive and emotional changes to enter our lives. The following is a list of techniques to help you re-emerge from a Procrastination gap, if you are in one: Be patient with your up-and-down...
Who Are You Waiting For?
I've been having some difficulty getting my act together regarding this blog lately. I haven't been posting consistently, and some days it feels like the well has run dry. What I've realized in thinking about this current situation is that running a blog is kind of...
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