Procrastination Feedback
He is riddled with anxiety.
He read an article online on how addressing himself in the third person can be useful to increase wisdom. At first instance, it feels incredibly weird, as if his life and his feelings weren't his own. Depersonalised. But he'll give it a shot for at least one month. Can't hurt.
Back to work. Yesterday he was going on about losing momentum and feeling like procrastinating a lot. He tried the following in the morning:
This he attempted in the mourning, after journaling and it was effective. Then he went for lunch. That broke his stride. Just before lunch, in the small free time he had, he started looking into family pictures as part of a Christmas project. When he came back from lunch, he worked the pictures he selected, editing them.
This threw him off, and getting back to work took much longer. At the end of the day, due to a customer chasing, he rallied enough energy to look into one of his pending work issues. When he did so, he did not follow the methodology proposed above.
Today he's feeling very despondent again, and with a very big urge to play computer games again. What is there in the horizon that he is dreading?
How can he change his perspective on each of these points so he doesn't pick bad coping mechanisms back again?
So today he will try again to repeat the method from yesterday (no music, one hour work stretches) and clear his stack. He'll try to do each bit purposefully.
He read an article online on how addressing himself in the third person can be useful to increase wisdom. At first instance, it feels incredibly weird, as if his life and his feelings weren't his own. Depersonalised. But he'll give it a shot for at least one month. Can't hurt.
Back to work. Yesterday he was going on about losing momentum and feeling like procrastinating a lot. He tried the following in the morning:
- work without music
- finish a task, or work for one straight hour, whatever came next
- walk and stretch at the end of each of these exercises
This he attempted in the mourning, after journaling and it was effective. Then he went for lunch. That broke his stride. Just before lunch, in the small free time he had, he started looking into family pictures as part of a Christmas project. When he came back from lunch, he worked the pictures he selected, editing them.
This threw him off, and getting back to work took much longer. At the end of the day, due to a customer chasing, he rallied enough energy to look into one of his pending work issues. When he did so, he did not follow the methodology proposed above.
Today he's feeling very despondent again, and with a very big urge to play computer games again. What is there in the horizon that he is dreading?
- Flying back home.
- Staying away from Anna
- Anna going on holidays with Maria
- Being without work, feeling chained to his laptop.
How can he change his perspective on each of these points so he doesn't pick bad coping mechanisms back again?
- Flying back home is a chance to be with friends, or to find times to be introspective
- Staying away from Anna is a chance to feel how much he misses her
- Anna going on holidays with Maria is a chance to have fun knowing that Anna isn't left alone and bored.
- Being without work, feeling chained to his laptop is a chance to pursue side projects or hobbies with a clear conscience.
So today he will try again to repeat the method from yesterday (no music, one hour work stretches) and clear his stack. He'll try to do each bit purposefully.