Procrastination!

[billd]

I surrender my title of “longest posts”. A new champion has been named.

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[Anonymous]

Lol 😆 I would love to know why I cannot see an easy project through to completion, but I can spend hours writing long posts on forums!! I have seriously got to learn to shut up!!!

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[billd]

I think we are twins born of different mothers…………

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[Scattybird]

Hahaha – make that triplets………

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[Anonymous]

LMAO!! Too true 😉

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[Anonymous]

I procrastinate things that take deep concentration or that interrupt my hyperfocus. Things like: I need to get gas before work tomorrow, that tank is empty once again, but I want to get home. I now get the once I start traveling I have to make it there as fast as possible and with as little stops, that my grandpa used to do.

I also read forums while watching tv instead of doing things I should be doing like figuring out what to fix for dinner. Sometimes it sucks to be me.

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[Scattybird]

Hey Lanakila000,

Don’t say it sucks being you…it’s just sometimes the situations we get into suck. At least that’s how I try to look at it – at least I do when I am being positive anyway. The number of times I put off filling up the tank because I’m running late to get home and OF COURSE there will be time tomorrow (because I’m going to get up early (or at least on time)) and OF COURSE there isn’t time (because I couldn’t get out of bed) so that means I am late in the morning too…..but I have to fill up so am even later…. Yep……it sucks and somehow never changes.

I spent tonight looking for my ID badge to get into my office tomorrow. I still haven’t found it – I have such a careful routine with it too. Aaahaha. So tonight I won’t sleep because I’ll be thinking about where I put it. Ah well……. and on it goes…… 😮

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[Stash]

This is the stuff that drives me crazy and frustrates me so much! I have driven past, and actually even walked past, a million places that I needed to stop at for one reason or another. It sounds so ridiculous when you say it out loud. “I was on empty, and I drove right past 4 gas stations, but stopping was just too hard.” No wonder people have a hard time accepting the reality of ADHD.

Small victory – I actually stopped at the grocery store on the way home last night. I came so close to not stopping, but I actually repeated out loud “stop and get groceries, stop and get groceries” as I cut across a lane of traffic in a last second decision. But at least I have a bit of food in my fridge & freezer now. (we won’t go into the lack of nutrition in the foodstuffs I managed to purchase….I tend to buy based on least number of steps to get to my mouth)

@scattybird – good luck with the ID badge! It might turn up in the freezer, but I’m sure you’ll find it!

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[Anonymous]

I have even procrastinated something while I was actually IN the shopping centre where I needed to be to do whatever it is I needed to do. I have simply decided that I have had enough and want to go home, regardless of not having finished everything I needed to do. I always regret it later, when I have to go out of my way to go back to the shops, but at the time I can’t ignore that desire to go home.

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[billd]

wow krazykat, happens to me a lot. I put off going back to get something – and it’s only 2 minutes from where I am in the store, but I decide I’ve had enough.

I can’t stand large stores – especially large grocery stores. They drive me nuts – I almost fear them. I go in, grab what I need or think I need, and get out fast.

I can’t tell how often I’ve made it home only to put the things I didn’t get back onto a new list for my next trip -when I could have gotten them that same trip.

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[Scattybird]

I just love this site – I have never met so many people before that I can relate to. Do you think it’s all down to ADD or do other people do this stuff too? I hate grocery shopping so much I wait until 20 minutes before the shop shuts. Then I rush in, grab what I can and get out again quick. By leaving it late I don’t have to fight against the crowds and I can get several days supplies in 10 minutes (if I’m not too fussy!). It goes wrong when they rearrange the shelves though.

The lady who cleans the building I work in found my ID card in the wash-room – I don’t even remember going in there! No doubt it’ll take me ages to put everything away in my house that I ripped out of place last night when I was looking for it (not that anything was in place really but I like to pretend).

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[billd]

I go in to places like a grocery store (dragged in kicking and screaming, begging for mercy) at 6am, or WalMart – no lines, no crowds.

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[Anonymous]

For a long time, I would do the early morning shopping thing too, on the way home from school drop off, but only for groceries, as only supermarkets are open that early. Most other shops aren’t open until 15 minutes after school starts (and that’s a LONG time to wait lol!!). Early morning is certainly a quiet time to go – I get a good car park, and there aren’t too many people.

Recently my daughter has wanted to come food shopping with me, so we go after school. It’s a bit busier, but I can’t put it off, because my daughter is there to keep me moving in the right direction!! And it has grown into a routine, as I can do it on the same day every week regardless of my work shifts. Routines are good But next year my daughter (the youngest) will be at high school and catching the bus home instead of being picked up, so I will have to look at a new shopping habit Even if I decide to pick her up on shopping day, the high school is in a different direction and the shops aren’t on the way home. Blah!!

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[resipsa]

This is for Babyjo … tips for studying. This worked for me in college. Begin reading your text immediately upon waking in the morning and read for at least 15 minutes. Immediately means immediately. No pee break. No getting out of bed. Put the nightstand light on a timer if need be and have the book open and the paragraph marked where you want to start. For my purposes, “waking” meant the instant the eyelid uncovered the cornea. Ya, I know … if I “get up” at 6 am it may be 7 am or later before I figure out what my name is. No matter. In that 15 minutes of reading you are not going for understanding, you are only going for the act of having DONE the reading.

Hope that helps.

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[phoenixmagicgirl]

So my medication wore off two hours ago…I’m currently trying my hardest to review for a quiz i have on Wednesday morning for school. I’ve found that putting away the electronic devices you own helps me. Out of sight out of mind… as they say.

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