Re: How To Beat Procrastination – A Research Summary

[billd]

If I could do all this:

>>”To beat procrastination, you need to increase your motivation to do each task on which you are tempted to procrastinate. To do that, you can (1) optimize your optimism for success on the task, (2) make the task more pleasant, and (3) take steps to overcome your impulsiveness.”<<

Then I’d not have been diagnosed with ADD! LOL

I mean, really – how does one make cleaning a toilet more pleasant? Use lemon flavored cleaner?

How does one make tilling a garden, cleaning a pool, sorting out crap that piled up because it’s unpleasant stuff?

The solutions are obvious, I’d say “duh” but it’s SO easy to say “oh, just do this and it will make it easier”.

If I could “just do this”, I’d have been doing it.

Sorry, for the ADD person, at least THIS PARTICULAR ADD person, it’s a whole lot harder than that. It’s not really that simple to just conjur up interest or make something more pleasant. I HATE doing the dishes for example, I hate the food junk in the water, I hate standing there doing a boring chore. Hard to see how it would be more pleasant.

I’ve got a stack of things do to that I normally LIKE doing……but because it’s going to be rather routine, time consuming, and take some “work”, it’s been put off. I’m trying really hard to convince myself that I really need to do it – and remind myself I really do enjoy that sort of work, but it’s not going well.

I can see if it’s a non-ADD person with procrastination issues – but these aren’t just “in our head”, there is a “medical reason”, so just thinking myself into a correction won’t be that simple.

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