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.