Coaching and Therapy

Hi,

First, I am beyond thankful to have found a support group like this. I look forward to growing and improving with you all. I am a single mom of 2 baby boys and am an entrepreneur.

In a lot of pain today. I've likely blown a wonderful job opportunity, one my family really needed, by going off on another cycle of crippling, extreme procrastination and perfectionism. Of responding to intense fear of criticism — of being judged lacking, in terms of my professional abilities — by swinging between (a) extreme avoidance of the trial project I was hired to do and (b) doing the work, but in extreme perfectionism.

Make out a list of concrete long and short term goals with deadlines. While you are going about your day ask yourself these questions:

1. Does this action help me progress toward one of my short term or long term goals?

Hi everyone- 

So I'm on the hunt to find someone--and pay someone--to call me daily M-F to check-in with me and make me review my "to do" list...then check-in later in the afternoon, to make sure I'm staying on task.

I don't need a "coach" per se, as I know what I need to do. I just need someone to nudge me to do it.

Does anyone have suggestions or resources? 

Thanks!

Bill 

Hi guys,

I've recently found the opportunity to go meet with a psychiatrist. It's something that I've been wanting to a do for a while, because I feel that my procrastination springs from a deeper issue that I want to deal with. What I'd like to know before I meet him is whether any of you who've been to a psychiatrist have felt any improvement because of it? My first appointment is this Sunday.
Looking forward to reading your feedback.

Hi all,

I've started taking Lexapro for winter depression.  I had a couple of weeks of side effects -- it did weird things to my appetite, I felt a little wuzzy, & had some headaches.  But that cleared up after about 2 weeks.

I know what this is from a theoretical point of view.

I am seeing a psychologist next Wed to work on some of my procrastination issues.

Has anyone experience of this technique, particularly as regards dealing with procrastination?

Would welcome anyone's experience strength and hope in this.

Regards Rexroth

Has anyone here ever had effective therapy for procrastination? I've taken hypnotherapy twice to try and sort out my habit of staying up wasting time until I'm dog tired, then getting up later and later.

The first time, it worked (I suspect because I used it as a totem of change exactly at the same time as I decided within myself to stop procrastinating). The second time, with a different therapist, it didn't work, quite possibly because that time, maybe because of the success of the first experiment, I expected it to work with no effort from me, like a magic pill.