by Christine Li | Apr 28, 2015 | All Posts, Feelings, Resistance
In my work as a psychologist, I listen to patients and the fears they harbor. Since I tend to work with Procrastinators, the fears I hear about most frequently go like this: fear of making mistakes: we worry about doing something the wrong way fear of being awkward:...
by Christine Li | Apr 18, 2015 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Social
Procrastinators are known to have problems with getting work done. I wonder, often, if there is something more to Procrastination other than the actual work. In my experience working with clients who are trying to recover from chronic Procrastination, the root of...
by Christine Li | Apr 3, 2015 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Techniques
Procrastinators are great at telling themselves what to do and what not to do. Unfortunately, many of those directions are rooted in a need for total clarity. Procrastinators tend not to act if there is an absence of clarity. In case I’m not making sense yet, here...
by Christine Li | Mar 17, 2015 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Social, Techniques
Lately, I seem to be feeling stuck every day. Whether it’s an e-mail I don’t want to reply to or an uncomfortable interpersonal dynamic I don’t want to address, it seems I am in a bad run kind of way. There are so many reasons we can get really stuck. So stuck that:...
by Christine Li | Jan 30, 2015 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Social, Techniques
I'm really pleased to introduce this guest post by my new friend and kindred spirit, Susaye Rattigan. I discovered her ultra-informative post on LifeHack — 25 Incredibly Useful Websites Every Entrepreneur Should Bookmark — and then found another post by...
by Christine Li | Jan 28, 2015 | All Posts, Feelings, Resistance
Disappointment. What a thoroughly nasty topic. We can feel disappointed when: we let ourselves down we eat or drink too much we watch too much Netflix or Amazon Prime (I just discovered what binge watching feels like) we let other people down we experience loss our...