social self-experiment- the rules

Published on August 9, 2005 By momijiki In Life Journals

Ok... I just finished doing 20 minutes of general tidying up so I feel a little bit better. I have issues with housework which are better suited to another blog.

So what are the rules gonna be????

Best to keep it simple and just a week long. I should be able to manage 7 days, right? (sniggers derisively). I figure read one or two web articles about procrastination, do a reflection on them and then try out the rules... Hmmm... there should probably be a reading and writing time limit, too so I don't spend all my time doing this and not other stuff.

Ooohhh... I'm cautiously optimistic and looking forward to this.

So the rules are:
1. try this for a period of 7 days (option to continue or slide back into nasty ways)
2. Read one or two web articles about how to stop procrastination each day
3. reflect about the articles
4. post the rules and try to follow them...
5. stick to a time limit for reading and writing a reflection
6. Understand that there are going to be lots of uncomfortable times and just keep going

Hmmm... this should be good for now. Seem to have covered most of basic stuff. Back to housework.

Cool and this only took 8 minutes.

Comments

Dan Kaschel

on Aug 09, 2005

Reading about it won't help. I'll tell you what to do to stop it:

First, find out what you should be doing.
Then, find a reason that you should do it.
Keeping that reason in mind, do it on a set schedule that you have no excuse to break.

Often, the hard way is the only way. Just my 2 cents. Good luck, though. God knows we're all different.

Dan, a fellow procrastinator

momijiki

on Aug 09, 2005

This is a completely self-indulgent blog... I have to admit that.

Yep. I agree about the "do it" part. Usually reading stuff like this kick-starts me to go do something. But maybe I need to start reading things through a little more. Mostly, I feel like I'm not doing enough.

First, find out what you should be doing.Then, find a reason that you should do it.Keeping that reason in mind, do it on a set schedule that you have no excuse to break.

You raise a good question. The hard part, perhaps is the "what should I be doing" part. There is a lot of stuff that I want to do and one of my friends has suggested that I actually can't do all this stuff and will have to make choices. I think I need to spend a little time on my choices. One of which is to generally ignore housework. I hate it. I do it when necessary as I actually can't work in clutter. And I think I make a lot of stupid little to do tasks for myself.

I do the stuff I need to do for my job so I'm not a total sluff, but I definately get onto my own little world track and then find I gotta get busy doing stuff. Some of it is a little more complicated then the "just do it" maxim as well. Sometimes I want someone to hold my hand, stupid as that it, and I need to get over it. When push comes to shove, I'll get it done, but I don't want things to have to escalate to shove. Usually once I get started, I am ok. Some of the stuff I honestly don't know where to start.

Scheduling has always been a big problem as I'm kind of freelance. Work as it is is not a set schedule, so I need everything to be flexible so that I can work around work. This is not complaining. This is just me trying to figure out how I can get more things done more efficiently with less stress. I think this is also me trying to figure out how to live with a schedule and actually tell people that my schedule is more important.

So as an experiment, I am going to try this as one way to do the set schedule thing. The wierd thing is that while I feel like a complete time-flake, a lot of people (other than my mom) see me as a really organized person. Granted, these are usually people I work with so they are seeing the me that makes sure she pulls it together and muffs up as little as possible. Could even be I am pretty together and suffering residual mother anxiety.

momijiki

on Aug 09, 2005

By the way...

I did finish all the tidying up!!!

Dan Kaschel

on Aug 09, 2005

Where there's a will, there's a way. Best of luck!

Dan

foreverserenity

on Aug 10, 2005

This is a completely self-indulgent blog... I have to admit that.

Hey, it's your blog you can be as indulgent as you want!

As for the procrastinator part, could it be that you might feel overwhelmed at times? You're fairly organized at work and get things done. Only for some things at home you seem not to be organized. You might be putting too much pressure on yourself. Take it from one who knows. I procrastinate sometimes and then I get down to doing what I need to do. Sometimes it just doesn't pays to get all stressed out over the little things in life.

I hope your scheduling works out!

momijiki

on Aug 10, 2005

I hope your scheduling works out!

Thanks for the well wishes! A lot of it has to do with having some pretty major things that I am not in control of, so i focus on some petty things I can control and then when those things go south? Maybe it's easier to freak about those things. I dunno.

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