Introductions and Procrastination Discussion

Well, I'd like to introduce myself, like everyone else here, as a prime example of a procrastinator.  I'm brand new to the group and well to posting anything online in general.

Hey everyone. I'm Tristan.

Today, my parents called me out of my room and told me that my insurance had been stopped. I needed to get into college to get it back again.

When they were explaining it, I felt like a child being punished. I couldn't do anything but nod and stand there as they said what they needed to and left.

I keep thinking I want to kill myself. This isn't special, since its been a habit of mine, since third grade, when things get rough. But I'm really depressed.

I'm not new, but I only made one post here a long time ago when I was afraid to graduate from high school.

 The recent economic troubles have thrown me for a loop, the place I worked part time shut down (it was actually going to happen sooner or later). That threw me off though and recently I allowed things to get totally out of control again.

I attend University in Canada and I've haven't gone to my classes in THREE DAYS. So, I'm really mad at myself. I've been a procrastinator most of my life, probably since Grade One or Grade Two (age 6 or 7). I would just arrive to school late, skip and avoid work. It's crazy to think how I'm even in University with my bad school record. But here I am, and I used to think it was because I didn't care enough or knew what I wanted to do in life to really dedicate myself but now that I know for sure what I want to do with my life, I'm still procrastinating.

This bugs me quite often.

Say I've written some music for a project, and it's at a stage where nobody in the entire world, except for me, has heard it. I'd make a decision to keep it that way until I 'release' it, however that may be, so I wouldn't upload it to music profile websites or send it to friends etc. Imagine me feeling very strongly that no one person would be allowed to hear it until it was available for everyone to hear.

I consistently underestimate or overestimate how long something is going to take, or how long it will take to get somewhere.   Is this a common problem for us?  If others have experience with this and found ways to improve, I'd love to hear about it!

Jo

Hi there,

I’m Tom, 18 years of age and a musician. I live in the UK, and as of the 9th November 2008, am an admitted chronic procrastinator.

Hi.

I have both a laptop and a desktop computer... The laptop is a Mac and the desktop is PC. For some reason, I can only log in here on my laptop.... I was just wondering if anyone else has the same problem?

I am also having trouble formatting my text. I used a strikethrough and changed the color of some of the text in my posts, and neither will show up... any tips?

Thanks,

Sammy 

I couldn't really find another more suitable heading for this so I opted for here. It felt "too big" to go in the daily check-in list.

Bottom line: I've experienced some major regression in the last several weeks. Prompted by what? Probably stress [mounting unmet deadlines again]; political distraction; stress with the youth class I teach with Mrs. GS [alluded to in some check-ins]. 

And what happens when this builds up: I deliberately turn away from the tools that are available to me to help me manage things, and instead pursue escapes.