Introductions and Procrastination Discussion

The Tool of the Week is:

3.  Ask Yourself Why: While you are visualizing doing the task, see if you can detect what it is about the task that feels odious to you, what uncomfortable feeling you are avoiding. Knowing what's behind the avoidance can help you get past it - for example, address real problems or ignore irrational fears.

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So, I'm procrastinating and surfing the web tonight, feeling miserable and guilty about all the work I wasn't getting done....as usual. A google search on procrastination brought me to a post on this forum....and then I notice that my web browser had already filled the account login on the left with my info. I clicked to login and realise that I signed up for an account here over 2 years ago, but then never really came back and then forgot about this site. Maybe I wan't ready to tackle my problem back then?

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2.   Visualization: Plan what to do, then imagine yourself doing it. The more specific and vivid your visualization, the better. See yourself doing the task, and doing it well.

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I stumbled on this site while googling for some sort of solution for my extremely screwed up life – through my googling I stumbled on PRO’s quote “The jokes about procrastination infuriate me.

I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but it is a very specific case (I think) and I couldn't figure out where else it should go.

I know this might sound odd, but I do a lot of procrastinating in bed, either to avoid going to sleep or avoid getting up. This wastes away huge swathes of my day. Indeed, the frustration this causes has often brought me to tears.

Thing is, when I'm in bed I'm alone. It is just me, nobody to check up. How can I go about wasting hours of my life away like this? Can anybody please help me through this?

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Hello.  I am so glad to be here.  I never heard of anyone else having this problem.  What a relief!  I have struggled with this for YEARS.  Since finding this site tonight, I have done a lot of reading online.  All instead of getting ready for a really important day today.  I do work well under pressure though, which is how this day will begin.  So what should I do from here?

... and lately, he's been making his presence felt.

I had a rough week. One day I'd doggedly bring my dysfunctional behavior at work into the light — into the PA Chatbox — and just report what was going on. Which was failure, overwhelmingly; I'd painstakingly make a plan and then fail to stick to it, over and over and over. And consciously I'd congratulate myself for sticking with it despite it being a painful process that I can't see delivering me any instant gratification.