by Christine Li | Feb 7, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Resources, Techniques, Theories
Live Simply. Easy for you to say. It seems a great irony to me that living simply needs to be the more intentional way of living these days. It is an active process of removing unnecessary items and matters from your life, and then having more room for what you...
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 27, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Social, Theories, Thoughts
So often we let our minds wander. We enjoy prancing through the fields of fantasy. Unfortunately for some Procrastinators, these meanderings through the fields are akin to what we call our “biggest nightmare.” We can think the worst very easily and...
by Christine Li | Jan 22, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Social, Theories
Some Procrastinators often make their already difficult schedules even more difficult, by taking on more than they need to. Although they are swamped by work and burdened by upcoming or recently passed deadlines, they offer to do more. I tend to call this affliction...
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...