Introductions and Procrastination Discussion

Hello! 

I'm very excited/apprehensive to be here!  I joined becasue I've been effectively not doing 80% of my job for nearly a full year and need to start work again but i'm paralyzed!  This is my first step to getting some help since the anxiety is nearly killing me. 

My father told me today that he has never detected a sense of urgency in me, even though I should feel urgency about getting things done.  Actually a former professor, who I had a falling out with, said the same thing, and my wife (relationship currently on the rocks), etc.

 When I was young I often fought with my temper-tantrum throwing bigger, older brother, and I think I learned to simply shut down, because I never won a fight, either intellectually or physically, and learned simply not to fight.

This is a grumble about my beloved other half - I really don't know the best way of handling this.

Hi- I just joined (well, joined a couple weeks ago & just got on today). I am constantly overwhelmed with too many tasks, including some ambitious ones, and nevertheless find myself wasting hours of time when I really do want to be productive and when I know for sure that if I can only start, I will even get interested. I am sick of living like this (and at a point where I need to take hold of my career and finances or I am sunk).

Hi all, I've just joined.  I'm a 56 year old doctor, working full-time (but fortunately not out-of-hours) and caring for my disabled husband and three cats.  I started a new job in January after 20 years in the previous one. This has involved moving 170 miles from London to South Yorkshire.  The job's great but any hope I had that starting with a clean slate would help me not procrastinate has gone out of the window - 10 weeks in, and I've got an embarrasing backlog of reports to write.

hello everybody, this is my first post here. I am 16, and i started worrying about my habits. they're awful. i want to go to the air force academy in a couple years, and i know im physically and mentally capable. and while i do very well on standardized tests, my schoolwork is suffering, mostly because of procrastination. During a particuarly bad session of procrastination and surfing the internet (instead of schoolwork!), i found this site. the irony was not lost on me, and i joined immediately.

Alright so I just signed up to P.A. and i'm sure i'm not alone with where do I start so...

I'm 25 years old and just moved back from vancouver B.C. Canada to the small town where my dad lives to work and save money to move to NYC. My mom is american so I can work both places.

I am posting the following announcement for the casting producer for a reality show called "Clean House", currently airing on The Style Network.

Do NOT respond to this on the forum. Do NOT post your address and telephone number on this site!!!!!!!! If you are interested, send the requested information to the email address below.

Well...after I did my check-in today I was overcome by an urge to clean out my stash of old magazines. So I spent an hour cutting out the recipes and such, and tossing the rest.

It sounds good, in theory, but it wasn't on my list. And if I were going to interrupt my list for a cleaning/organizing project, there are other MUCH more pressing issues I could have tackled. :rolleyes: Looking at the piles of dirty laundry threatening to topple over and bury me...

Does anyone else do this? 

Sometimes I get partway done with something, and I realize it isn't what I expected, or I realize there is something more important I should be doing, or I don't need it, or whatever. The logical thing to do on such an occasion would be to abandon it and simply "move on." But often I don't want to do that, so I keep at it until the end.

Like TV shows. If I've watched about half of the show, I feel obligated to watch it until the end.