Procrastinating
I'm a world class procrastinator. I will spend hours blowing off tasks that take minutes to complete. And all that time, of course, I feel guilty about it.
I have to constantly remind myself that there is great reward in things being done. Past tense. I am not a process person. I am results oriented. I don't need to watch the game; just tell me the score when it's over.
Three times in the last eight months, my MD has given me paperwork to go have lab work done. I had a glucose tolerance test about ten months ago, through a different MD, and assumed that this series of orders included the same thing. Glucose tolerance tests take a long time. And you can't eat until you're all done. But this morning, I was up early, so I decided to bite the bullet. I was going to endure the process and get that paperwork out of my life. Put it in the past tense.
I didn't need a glucose tolerance test. Fifteen minutes, five vials of blood, and I was all done.
I wasted so much energy blowing this off! At least, now, it's done.
I have to constantly remind myself that there is great reward in things being done. Past tense. I am not a process person. I am results oriented. I don't need to watch the game; just tell me the score when it's over.
Three times in the last eight months, my MD has given me paperwork to go have lab work done. I had a glucose tolerance test about ten months ago, through a different MD, and assumed that this series of orders included the same thing. Glucose tolerance tests take a long time. And you can't eat until you're all done. But this morning, I was up early, so I decided to bite the bullet. I was going to endure the process and get that paperwork out of my life. Put it in the past tense.
I didn't need a glucose tolerance test. Fifteen minutes, five vials of blood, and I was all done.
I wasted so much energy blowing this off! At least, now, it's done.
1 Comments:
I read somwhere that procrastinators are adrenalin junkies. They crave the rush of the last minute crazies that come with putting things off.
BAH!
My sister's therapist told her that her inability to get things done is because she is a prefectionist and if it can't be done perfectly, she will put it off until it reaches critical-mass and then she does it half-assed just to get it over with.
PUL-EEZ!
My maiden name is Nations and my parents always said that my middle name was Procrasta! I've found that when I finally get around to doing something I have put off for ages, I don't get a feeling of accomplishment, just guilt for not doing it sooner. Either way I lose.
See me NOT getting my work done? What did I tell ya!
-Lori
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