Procrastination @ MindSay

I know I know...I've been slacking on updating. I've been (and still am) pretty busy. I will have an update (hopefully a proper one) by Sunday evening or Monday at the latest.

It's 4:20 in the morning. Ha, I should smoke it up, not. I don't touch the stuff. So I've come to the conclusion I must suffer from three diseases.

 

you might ask what? Well, I think there has to be something done to find a cure because the combination between the three are slowly causing me to go crazy.

 

1. Procrastination. I have diagnosed myself with the procrastination in the advanced stages. This is where it affects every aspect of my life. I can't accomplish a simple task without pushing it to the last second. I think it's a challenge now. I try to convince myself that I'm only procrastinate to get maybe the slightest adrenaline rush. But it's only a lie. It's a disease. It has too be. I can't help it. It only progressively gets worse as the years go by. I saw the results of an entires semester's worth of procrastination today. I have to say I handled it well. I only had myself to blame.

 

2. The late night disease (otherwise known as Insomnia). I did try to actually sleep tonight. However, my mind is cluttered with a million fragments that I can't seem to put into any type of order. Words were just spilling out of my mouth earlier, and I had to stop and remind myself that random thoughts (at the time) will never help me accomplish the task I had set out to do. Never-the-less, I still haven't finished the paper because I haven't connected my thoughts and put them in an orderly form. The symptoms: blogging on myspace and any other internet site.

 

3. Stress. This takes the worst toll on my body. It is more like a contributing factor to 2, and only made worse by 1. Energy drinks are now my enemy. I love them, but on a night that I could have actually been sleeping I hate them.

 

So if procrastination is ever listed as a real disease, someone please tell me they found a cure.

Have you ever been hypnotized? I think I haven’t. But I have certainly been in some sort of trance through the use of audio files and self-hypnosis.

 

It feels as if you were awake, but you had no strength at all. You just stay there, eyes closed, with a relaxed mind. And you’ll only come back after a big while or a strong self-commanding thought.

 

So I was thinking. What if I could use hypnosis to treat procrastination and my lack of self-discipline? So there you go. I’m using my internet connection for something productive.. I’m downloading a bunch of self-hypnosis mp3s.

 

I hope I get something done tomorrow..

I'm just procrastinating a little longer before beginning my 2-page (single spaced) essay for my class, which is due Tuesday night, but which I am determined to finish today.  This afternoon, if possible, so I can go for my 3-mile walk and then watch TV tonight with a clear conscience.

Bit of advice: if a doc prescribes the antibiotic Cipro, you might want to ask if there's something else that would do the job.  I took Cipro for 5 days 3 weeks ago, and let's just say that some side effects are continuing and that additional visits to the doc have been necessary.  Other side effects which have thankfully since disappeared are dizziness, lethargy, insomnia, and lack of appetite.  I had taken Cipro many years ago and definitely do not remember anything like these effects.  I shall never take it again, of course.

There shall be rejoicing in the streets (at least in my street) when this cataloging/classification class is over.  It comes under the category of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...but I could SO have done without this class.  Ok, Snuggs, I'm whining again, but you said I could if it would help! And I think it does.

Today was my first major yard sale foray this spring, and I made a pretty good haul! Here's what I got:  3 Ralph Lauren oxford cloth shirts (in excellent condition with dry cleaner tags still attached) for $1 each; a very nice soft black leather purse for $2; Gloria Vanderbilt pale pink jeans for 50 cents (which I'm going to let my mother cut off for capris); a Jones New York aqua cardigan for $1; 2 Zipfer beer stoneware mugs from Germany for 50 cents each (for my coffee, of course); a purple 100% cashmere scarf made in England, new and never worn - for $1; and a huge plastic tub of books for $20 - including 5 hardback Harry Potter books that look new, lots of paperback school required reading books, etc. - I should be able to trade them at the used book store for at least double that or maybe more.  So I'm well pleased!

Something that I have a problem with when it comes to my work is procrastination.

I am really good at putting projects off especially if I am not worried about it. And a lot of times, I'm not. I am a very laid back person. I can get stressed but that doesn't seem to help my procrastination, in fact, it seems to make it worse. Because the more I worry about something the more I want to put it off and not even think about it.

That's my issue.