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Nellie – I felt relieved that I got it done, despite not enjoying it at all. There is still more of the same ahead, but this was the larger piece of it. And for a few minutes, I remembered what I already knew – that it’s easier to do things than it is to endure the pain of knowing I need to do them and procrastinating. But knowing that doesn’t reduce the pain of starting.
Re: what No Dopamine & Zaidyma are saying about over-committing….One of my problems is that there are so many things I want and need to do, that I can’t decide what to do first,. This tends to paralyze me, especially for projects where I’m not accountable to anyone else, where it’s just for myself that I’m doing it. I have guide-books for doing just about everything I want to do, but I can’t do everything from five different programs.
One thing that helped was a series of visualization exercises – imagining in vivid detail 3-5 things that I needed to do, as if I were actually doing them – then doing them. That was from a program laid out in a book, which started well but got too complicated – then I gave up. Better to stick with the first week.
I could spend all day (and often do) staring into space. What I’d like to find is a consistent method for triggering the “on” switch. Emotionally intense experiences can help, but also lead to situations with their own problems. The medication I’m on helps but is no magic pill when it comes to getting in gear. Overcoming inertia is a huge problem for me.
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