Procrastinators Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from chronic procrastination.

Introductions and Procrastination Discussion

If you're just joining, please introduce yourself here. This is also the section for general discussion about procrastination topics - articles you've read, questions, thoughts, insights, etc.

Frustrated - rant - long

7 April, 2009 - 11:19am - tramseyer

 

I'm frustrated - - feel like I'm chained to "putting out fires" and that's "helping" me procrastinate on what I'm supposed to be doing..

(and for some reason I can't get the chat box to work ??? Must be a java or mozilla/firefox thing?) 

Hi :) - intro and saying hello

5 April, 2009 - 8:29am - tramseyer

Good morning :-) 

Been here a while, was concerned about a potential employer seeing any post I made, but last night/early this morning made me realize it's not about them but what I need to be doing for me right now.  I looked up from a project I'd been procrastinating on to find it was after 1 AM. I do procrastinate less at work than at home. I have a letter of comindation from a former employer attesting to that. 

Thinking about a different approach to juggling

3 April, 2009 - 4:33pm - GeorgeSmiley

At any one time I'm juggling a lot of different projects. Generally I've tried to organize them so that I might be doing tasks for several different projects on any given day. Inevitably certain things get postponed, sometimes for days (see my earlier thread about two kinds of procrastination for more on this).

Lately I've been thinking about a different approach.

Fitting in Prayer Time

2 April, 2009 - 8:28am - Heather B

Hi.  I'm transferring a discussion over from the chatbox (is this ok with you clement?  if not I'll edit to make it anonymous):

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‹Heather B› ... when I don't put prayer first, early in the day, my day become self-will run riot.  Which SO doesn't work.

hello- kind of long

2 April, 2009 - 5:44am - reallyneedhelp

Hi, while I'm looking at the rest of this site I thought I'd add my introduction.

 

Introduction: wolfie

28 March, 2009 - 1:28am - wolfie

Hi, my nickname is wolfie and I'm an addict. I procrastinate chronically.

paper or plastic?

27 March, 2009 - 1:49pm - Agnus

I realize a problem I have been creating for myself: I use both electronic and paper notekeeping, but do not transfer info between them.  My paper notepad goes with me everywhere and I jot notes all day, circling those that call for follow-up - but I create action lists, schedules and reminders on my laptop, never even looking at my paper notepad again once I am back in the office. Man is that ever sabotage!

Help to get in and out quickly

24 March, 2009 - 5:38pm - dotnow

I have loved being on the site and thank everyone for their posts and progress.

One issue I encounter is trying to find my old post, esp. if i miss a day or two  (oops).  Any ideas on how to get in and out quickly?

 

thanks

 

Do It Now

Progress not Perfect ion

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two Kinds of Procrastination

23 March, 2009 - 8:49am - GeorgeSmiley

As I've been working here and making progress in overcoming some of my procrastination tendancies, I'm seeing that I procrastinate in two kinds of contexts.

yes and yes, vic

17 March, 2009 - 6:49pm - clement

I have described the feeling as 1) dread, 2) walking thru knives, 3) anxiety, and today, 4) panic attack.

Just today, i had to bring something downstairs to the basement--literally a 30 second task--but i avoided it, then forced myself, and i felt gut-wrenching stress. I dont understand it either, altho i have now given up understanding it. This is just my cross to bear. Might there be a way to cure it? Perhaps, but i have found and am using a way to manage it, fight it, overcome it, day by day in small steps.

Courage

17 March, 2009 - 6:11pm - vic

I just lost everything I wrote a minute ago because I thought I could get back to my comment.

Its ok. I was writing about my self loathing, etc., pain, but because I am feel like I am not alone, I had the courage to get through it.

I sent in the tax stuff to the accountant about an hour ago. The task itself was not so bad, but all the feelings and issues that went with it were incomprehensible. My stomach hurts, I am exausted and spent. I feel like I I was a suicide bomber and blew myself up, but I am still alive.

Unable to commit

16 March, 2009 - 8:24am - dizzle

I've been having some real trouble implementing anti-procrastination tools into my life. Perhaps I haven't been using the site correctly. Inevitably, whenever I "fall off the wagon" I come here to post in my sorrowful state. After having beat myself up for not getting anything done, I write of my trevails yet the behavior that lead to my missteps to recovery continue.

First Post! Kinda long...

13 March, 2009 - 2:30am - Teddy

Greetings,

 For the past 4-5 months, I've convinced myself that I must be the only person in the world who lives like I do, embarrassed to even tell one person about my procrastination, because they wouldn't understand. This site, which I found while procrastinating, changed my insight.

So I guess thats step 1.

Please, HELP ME!

10 March, 2009 - 12:04pm - cmyang

hallelujah to this site !

8 March, 2009 - 12:42am - NOLA

Hiya all .. I'm SO SO SO new to this site. I just googled it hoping with crossed fingers that such a thing exists, and behold - it does! I am just so relieved... and really need some support. It looks like I came to the right place.

 

Nice to meet you all -

 

Danielle ... in NOLA :)

Sleep procrastination?

4 March, 2009 - 12:29am - chemguy

I would like to know if anyone procrastinates on sleep? See I know I have a lot of stuff to do, but just knowing that I have that stuff to do makes me procrastinate even more.  And by "more" I mean I even avoid sleep sometimes.  Not anything crazy like staying up til 3 or 4 in the morning when I've got to get up at 8, but just enough to get me like 6 hours or more.  I know I should go to bed otherwise I'll feel like hell in the morning, but I still do it anyways..like now haha

hello... my fiancee is a chronic procrastinator, so it seems.. ?

3 March, 2009 - 5:11pm - maryblue

hello dear readers...

I am in desperate help ..

please excuse my writing english is not my mother tongue/language...

My boyfriend fiancee and future husband (we are getting married this May) has been driving his jeep/car, to and from the repair/garage station and to other places,

 without a valid insurance,

in a city that has 4.000.000 people with many cars,

(i.e. not in a village somewhere)

Hulloa says the newbie:)

2 March, 2009 - 6:53pm - Mansah

Hullo,

Addiction Control

26 February, 2009 - 9:32am - dizzle

Since starting to utilized this site a couple of weeks ago a lot of things have been going through my head. First off, coming to terms w/ the fact that procrastination is an addiction has been paramount to my understanding how to get "clean". Secondly, I realize how fricken hard it's going to be for me to get clean because really, I'm like an recoving alcoholic who goes to the bar while trying to stay clean.

Let it Go Just let it all Go....

18 February, 2009 - 6:53am - Shmuel

If there is one thing I have learned in life about beating procrastination it is to let it all go.

 

Hi Im shmuel and I just turned 27 and right now I am celebrating 4 years of sanity, or rather the fact that for the first time in 4 years I am sane. And not stressed out by fears and excess stress turned into visions of Nightmares walking before my eyes.

What you say does this have to do with procrastination. Everything......

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