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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.
