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Routine of any sort gets me stuck. I hate doing the same thing over and over. I like new things and I get bored really quickly. When that happens, I procrastinate. I download and watch whole seasons of TV shows. I read. I go visit people or I surf randomly on the web.
I've tried many ways to get myself unstuck, such as having a rotation of things that I can do or ways of doing things so that when I get bored of one approach, I use another. But that doesn't last much either.
Instead I just let the stuckness happen – I'll quickly get bored with it and will go back to being productive soon enough.
When I don't have time to let the procrastination happen, I talk sternly to myself, laughing at my own reticence. And then I just do it. I pick up the pen, call the client, clean the bathroom – whatever it is that I'm avoiding I just start doing it.
Once I've started, it's very easy to stop again at this point, so I just keep pushing through until either I've completed the task or I've started to enjoy the task again.
Of course, when I'm stuck, the main thing that keeps me stuck is guilt. I judge myself and when I do that the rebellious teenager appears and tells the judge to shut his yap and let me on with doing nothing. It's not that I want to rebel and deny – I just do it. Which is why when I just push myself through it, I end up enjoying myself and the rebellious teen retreats.
Alex Fayle
House Therapy
The Easy Life Evangelist
Alex, I very much relate to what you write. and YES, fighting stuckness won't do no good. It just strengthens it!
Posted by: traumwind | October 10, 2006 at 10:53 AM