Introductions and Procrastination Discussion

Seems that for me mess and clutter are intertwined with procrastination, related to similar issues of resistance and fear...there's also clutterers anonymous, I know, but I now see the clutter as a material outcome of procrastination and it needs to be conquered in small steps, one step at a time.

Is anyone else interested in having a clutter CI, or does it work better to include clutter in daily CIs (and get a sense of progress that way)?

Hello hello hello, this is my second message on here and I wanted to thank the person who had previously posted something regarding the 3 circles as a tool to help define sobriety in PA. The 3 circles is a tool that is used in the SAA (Sex Addicts Anonymous) program, and the inner circle is where one puts the behaviors one wants to abstain from, the middle circle contains behaviors that are slippery/can lead one to the inner circle, and the outer circle contains healthy behaviors such as meetings, taking care of oneself, etc. that help us to stay sober.

Hi,

I am a chronic procrastinator, and have been as long as I can remember! I can even remember procrastinating in year 3 at school, and finishing an assignment the morning it was due in year 7 (oh, my poor parents!).

Hi Everyone,

I am a lifelong chronic procrastinator.  It drives everyone around me crazy, and makes me miserable, to varying degrees.

I have had psychotherapy and am on paroxetine for depression, and of course my procrastination fluctuates with my emotional state.  At the moment I am OK, but not great.

There are all sorts of tasks that I procrastinate. It seems that to-do lists are the only way to stay organized even when behind. THis list is helpful, but maybe also a bit of a self-nag when it seems long or hard. So then I don't look at the list, get another notebook, the lists multiply.

And yet... at certain magical moments those tasks and chores, whether work or household, that had seemed heavy, suddenly become light. I just do them. I feel good.

Hi y'all. I've been a member here for over two years, I think. You would think that by two year's time, I'd be rid of this accursed habit of procrastination. But no. I'm ashamed to say that I've been yoyoing. As I look back at the lack of progress of previous years, my self-confidence diminishes. Now at my final sem in college, I'm procrastinating again. ::sad:: I've repeatedly betrayed many tasks lists that I've made. I like to list what I need to do, but I never do it, or I start way too late. The worst part is... it's all me. I've got no one else to blame. But it feels like an addiction.

Just a quick note...

I saw a discussion here (the one about Making the Right Choice) that looked interesting but I'm deferring reading it in the name of staying on task. I book marked it in my browser so I can quickly find it. 

This brings me to a question: 

Who among us has had good luck in creating and using a "parking lot" for useful, enjoyable, but otherwise distracting activities, so that you can healthfully put off something that might otherwise distract you from your MIT's at hand? How do you do it and how does it work for you?

...then I've been on a 72-hour bender.

This seems to me to be off topic for a standard check-in-type post, which is why I'm posting it here as its own topic instead of on the daily check-in page.

Over the last 3 days I've been trying to get started and get moving on Project R. If I could have gotten started I'd be finished by now. 

There are lots of reasons. It's a complex story without an obvious narrative, and I'm feeling blocked about that. There's been some family stress (already recounted elsewhere in the check-ins) involving my older son. 

What a news flash.  I had to laugh.

 Here's the link

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/procrast.htm

I've been wanting to do this since I came here.

I'm in my early 50s and have been self-employed as a freelance writer for half my career (worked in newspapers before that). I like what I do and do it pretty well, but I've always been a chronic procrastinator, last-minute guy. Despite that I got good grades in school and college, but always felt a nagging sense that I was undisciplined and under-achieving.

Just about every project I've ever done has been later than I wanted it to be, and the product of last minute frantic late-night work.