Why you procrastinate

[jacquelinefirkins]

Damn I am just starting to push myself through this and you feel so much better when you do. Like the old saying "thinking about it is always worse than actually doing it" so so 🤘

[stupud]

Thank doc. You're a fucking hero to us bpders

[Coldnfallen]

You say it as I was thinking it this morning. I have made a system. I get up and make coffee every day. I add one thing when I'm comfortable before I sit down with my coffee for the morning. My brain wants the coffee. I have to build the process to get coffee. I can't make a list of things because I will never follow it. But if a build a process to get a reward, it helps, loads.

[carluvrsd]

Can't we deal with this later????

[KonjikiKonjiki]

I tend to get overwhelmed easily and find it easier to put something off. Lately I have made my focus very small and my reach very short and am really happy with how much I'm accomplishing. ty for sharing this vid :)

[pjlegault]

I am putting this on my watch later list.

[boudicca]

Love this Dr. Fox--I am the world's worst procrastinator. It's funny--today I yelled at myself saying, 'why do I keep thinking on the short-term, ' while I was driving. (crazy).

[kevinhornbuckle]

For example, it is harder to live in a messy house than it is to clean it up.

[juliejones]

@drFox what would be your advice for times when I am overwhelmed by obsessive perfectionism which means I do 0% at risk of " failure" of not achieving 100%. It's a huge issue in my BPD 😬

[roamingthislife]

Can you do a detailed video on how to build in schedules? I am really terrible at this and feel like I have some serious ADHD brain going on at times in addition to the joy that BPD brings to my life... SIGH. It's hard to manage that lack of motivation AND inability to focus while still trying to be successful and on top of my game. Help!

[minutesago]

I know somebody with hostile procrastination. She spends a ton of energy refusing to do something but the arguments and stubbornness takes way more time than if she just would have done it. You would think that this wouldn't work, oh it works wonderfully. I end up doing it. The laziest person is the one in charge.

[minutesago]

An emergency is something that emerges. But if it's emerging it can also sink back to where it came from. I'm just going to wait it out. If I was a 911 operator I'd say don't call us we'll call you.

[katieg]

I'm a terrible procrastinator. If it's not something I can do all at once it becomes incredibly daunting and won't get done until I absolutely have to do it, at the last minute. At the same time I have a low tolerance for putting things off that I can do right now off, like if I have a return that I can do today it needs to get done today because the world might explode tomorrow I guess lol.

[frau_ic]

Recently life circumstances forced to deal with those issues in the short-term. 😏

[kevintewey]

" keep your eye on the prize "
what he means by changing Focus I guess
day after day living on the edge makes you think that our future is impossible

[minutesago]

I actually skipped my own 30th birthday party.

[minutesago]

This one's easy, I don't want to do it.