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23 Sep 2006, 5:00 pm

sociable_hermit wrote:
In my case it's a mixture of these:

Avoidance of the task in the first place
Depression / lack of motivation
Uncertainty as to how to proceed / poor memory
Lack of confidence - need to double check everything
Being easily distracted
Trying to do everything to perfection
(this is very time consuming, and it also leads to thinking "it won't be perfect, so why bother?")
Juggling priorities
Over-analysing
No benefit to anyone other than myself - I am far more active when I have a girlfriend, because I'm doing things for both of us then. It doesn't seem worth it just for me.


Many of those apply to me, too! They include Avoidance, lanck of motivation and being easily distracted. If it's something like studying, I usually have the radio on while I'm working, so I'm partly distracted from whatever I'm listening to and yet I'm still being productive, and I get the best of both worlds! My best working tunes usually come from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers ('Tell me baby, what your story? Where you come from and where you wanna go this time oh...!')


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23 Sep 2006, 5:35 pm

scrulie wrote:
But I want to do more! I want to spend more time at work!


Yeah, so do I, but it's unreasonable. You're setting yourself up to fail, that way.

I've just screwed up big time by obsessing over work too much. My work is time-related, so it has fixed deadlines. Due to delays elsewhere in the process, my latest task was already late by the time it hit my desk. Plus I am training a new recruit so that has slowed me down even further. On Friday morning I realised I would have to work the weekend, so I had an extra long sleep on Friday night (as I was already close to burnout - a fortnight of only sleeping for 4 hours a night when I need closer to eight) and went into work for mid-morning today. Didn't bother checking my diary - I knew that I didn't have any rostered voluntary work this weekend, and I haven't made any social plans in ages - so no worries there.

Until I realised on the train home at 23.09 that today was my friend's wedding day. 8O :(


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