I've always had a side that leaned toward procrastination, but never to the point that I seem physically, mentally unable to take care of business.
For example, I still have a number of task not started, or unfinished that I need to complete to protect my property, family wellbeing, in the event of civil unrest.
I have done somethings, but I am very frustrated that I am having such difficulty getting key important task completed. "You fucking had the chance and failed them", is how I will feel if I don't complete these things.
I am hesitant to blame what might be pure sorry ass laziness on some outside force, but damn it man, I swear I seem to be under the influence of some bad mojo, and was just wondering if I was alone in this.
Me too. I make a list and then promptly forget I made the list, or where I put it. lol.
I remember once, back in my 30's, I took a course on Goal Setting. I came home, got out a notebook and laid out my short term, medium term goals.
Excitingly, as though a cataract had been removed from my eyes and I was seeing clearly for the first time, I announced to my wife, "The reason I have been floundering on my course through life is I've had no map to keep me on course." Problem solved, now I knew where I wanted to get, and had a well laid plan to get there.
About a month later, I woke up and remembered vaguely that I had made a plan and that was the end of that.
What I’m still learning is to keep plans on multiple levels.
High-level plan. I need it, so I know what direction I’m going to and what are the main goals.
Mid level plan. That’s where I can prioritise one project over the other and adjust them, especially when I realise some of them are not realistic to achieve. I then give up parts of those that are less important to me.
Daily plan. These are task-level activities where I only take those that are realistic to complete today and break the bigger ones into smaller pieces.
Updating all the levels (weekly/daily) takes some time but at least I feel that I’m heading right direction that I want, even if I know that I could do more low-level taks when not managing my plans at all. I prefer it over doing small random things.
I'm glad you have that ability to make a plan, maintain it, and follow.
Not much a follow a documented plan.
Let's call it ,THE PAW KETTLE SYNDROME,hey Maw why do today what we can do tomorrow.
I remember watching ma and pa kettle. Pa was always, "I'm a gonna get my shotgun and ,,,,,,"