The Procrastination Syndrome

ADD Symptom: Procrastination.  Lots of it.

As if ADD was not enough, I have just been informed this past weekend (on the boardwalk over a caramel apple by a high school cashier) that I suffer from The Procrastination-Projection Syndrome.  I know. I am just as shocked as you and had no idea that high school kids were really this smart.

It is all starting to make sense to me now:

1.    Procrastinating with college so much that, thirteen years later, I’m still in class.
2.    Procrastinating with therapy so much that I still lie to my therapist.
3.    Procrastination with “finding the right guy” that I actually married the wrong one.
4.    Procrastinating with writing so much that I have accumulated eight file boxes of “notes and ideas” that I haven’t looked at since the Y2K scare.

How better to confirm a medical diagnosis that by getting a second opinion.  Online.  The website, e Not Alone, advertises a book called, The Tomorrow Trap, Unlocking the Secrets of the Procrastination-Projection Syndrome.  Since the cheapest copy on Amazon sells for $1.94, you know it’s got to be reputable.

If I was an ass*ole, I would sue the people who started Stumble Upon because the website does not come with a disclaimer warning readers of its addiction and has only worsened my procrastination. It is more addicting that any drug I have ever tried. You place the Stumble icon in your toolbar and just click on it when the urge strikes.  I just did it and this is what I saw:

How would I have ever learned this and this is the definition of Learning With Fun.

Over the past four weeks, it seems the Wellbutrin has done something for my focus but nothing for my procrastination.  If anyone knows the miracle cure, please find me but don’t tell me its David Allen & Co and his GTD Method.  Reading the first three chapters was like going to the three AA meetings, and on the forth, buying a six-pack on the way there. 

Gotta go Stumble.

Comments

[I Eat Snowman Poop]

I like the new look.

[lisa mcglaun]

wow, I read the whole thing no problem..that is spooky. I've got to join stumble, find out what all the buzz is about. By the way, I like the new look of your blog. Very clean feel.

[Hanna]

That was really amazing I read the whole thing too! Amazing that human brain

[lakedaemon]

I too lkie yuor new look stie and tuoghh I cloud raed the wohle paargarph I had mroe fun raeidng it plhnecitaloy

[melevision]

Its very cool to be able to read thihgs mispeeled all crazy like.

[Cynthia Blue]

Procrastination is self-reinforcing, too. It can provide a relief from anxiety and worry, if only short term. It does come back.. and can be worse.