Procrastination is a Disease

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What the hell is the deal with procrastination?  It seems like the solution to stop procrastinating should be extremely simple: STOP DOING IT.  But unfortunately, things don’t work that way.  At least once a year, I get motivated and write down a list of goals I want to accomplish.  I’m pretty sure that for the last ten years, 99% of that list hasn’t changed.  Apparently, I have a lot of aspirations each year, and I only end up accomplishing approximately 1% of them.  So the goals I don’t accomplish just roll over each year.  If this were a graded assignment, I would get an A for the goal setting and an F- for the follow through.  I’ve already figured out that I have a tendency to get overly ambitious about too many things, which results in me getting overwhelmed, and then I end up doing nothing.  I’ve tried to just focus on one thing at a time, but it’s really hard.  I feel like my brain has a cord that isn’t quite plugged in all the way.  Maybe I just have ADD?  I would actually be very upset if I found out that I've had ADD all this time.  How do people stop procrastinating?  No, seriously.  I feel like this is serious.  I can’t focus, I’m lazy, and I lack discipline.  I don’t even know what it’s like to be disciplined; it’s possible that discipline is an innate quality that I just don’t have. 

I’m a big believer in cognitive therapy.  Although I’ve never actually been to therapy, my educated guess would be that it’s the most affective.  For example, I know that when someone has an eating disorder, one way for that person to understand their behavior, is to keep a food journal.  They write down everything that they eat but they also record how they felt before during and after eating, to see if there’s a pattern.  Most people have triggers, which set off different behaviors.   It’s just hard to be aware of what those triggers are, so that’s why keeping a journal is helpful.  I should keep a procrastination journal; maybe I'll start tomorrow (ha ha, nudge nudge, wink).  I'm sure if I went to therapy, that's what they would recommend.  Or they would diagnose me with ADD or something else, give me some meds, and all of my problems would be solved.

Hey Weather People, Keep Your Opinions to Yourselves

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Weather people, or pardon me, meteorologists, need to learn how to shut their mouths.  I don’t turn on the news each morning to see them prancing around trying to act cute, while they tell us how great or how bad the weather is going to be that day.  No, all I want to know is approximately what the temperature is going to be like and whether or not I should bring an umbrella with me.  That’s it.  Maybe some fog and some cold isn’t a bad thing for everyone.  Maybe, just maybe, the fact that it’s going to be sunny and hot tomorrow, isn’t something that makes me particularly happy.  Have they ever stopped and thought about that?  Or is this something that is required of them, something that is listed in their job description:  “If the weather is hot and sunny, this makes you happy.  Yay, everyone will have a great day today.  If the weather is cold, oh no, it’s not going to be a good day.  Lets give the audience hope that tomorrow will be sunny, and therefore better.” 

I would actually overlook all of their annoying and pointless behavior if they just gave us a nonbiased, black and white reading of the weather.  But they just can’t do it.  It’s almost like an addiction; they just have to slip their opinions into the forecast.  It gets on my nerves, and frankly, it makes me want to rip my hair out.  Just the fact that it never fails, no matter where you are, what channel you’re watching, the weather person will always incorporate a generalized opinion about the weather.  Just watch and you’ll see.  At least they’re consistent.  They consistently annoy me every morning.  I don’t know why this gets me so worked up.  It really may just be the fact that I’m not a morning person and everything anyone does in the morning pisses me off.