by Christine Li | Feb 12, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Techniques, Theories
I've spent a good deal of my life struggling with feeling invisible. In different ways. As someone in my earlier days who had more ideas than ways to articulate them. As an ethnic minority unsure of how to represent myself in my community. As someone insecure about...
by Christine Li | Feb 5, 2014 | Academic, Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Techniques, Theories
It has struck me lately the irony that procrastinators work too hard. After all, the common perception of procrastinators is we're not working at all. But that common perception is really only partially true. I think all procrastinators know that. We are hard-core...
by Christine Li | Jan 31, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Theories
Working as a psychologist for many years has its perks. And I am not talking 401(K)-type benefits. I tend to think of them as my own private perks. Here's a sampling: I hear people tell me things they have never spoken openly about before. Perk for me: I get to see...
by Christine Li | Jan 29, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Steps of the Day
Sure, I’m up for being grateful each day as much as the next person. And I do believe whole-heartedly in the benefits of having a sense of appreciation for the things we are, have, and experience. I also believe in the power of focusing in on what is bugging us. And...
by Christine Li | Jan 21, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Theories
We may waste a lot of time in our lives pretending to be people we are not. We may pretend to be: compliant silent a go-getter solid confident perfect agreeable a do-er This game of pretend may have started many years back, early in your childhood even, when you...
by Christine Li | Jan 20, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Techniques
[Tweet “Half is better than none when there are things to be done.”] Being a Procrastinator often means being stuck in the middle of things. You’ve started something, and before you know it, you’re on to something else. You’ve decided you are going to...