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Hunter is running around in circles, screaming, and shouting. He is also slamming doors. He is in a terrible mood. Why? He has a hundred things to do and three hours in which to do them.
Yes, friends, he is mad at the world on the outside and really upset with himself on the inside. He has procrastinated his way to panic.
I can't even begin to tell you how familiar that feels.
He has developed a style of living that has most things slide off the todo list merely because they are no longer applicable. That works pretty well (with a permissive parent) until one gets to one' late teen years and discovers the rest of the world is not so tolerant of a failure to do what one is suppose to do.
Without a major change in his point of view, he is going to have a tough summer.
Stacey reminded him that suffering is optional. He didn't want to hear it. Funny, that. :)
From the perspective of age, I can comfortably say, "these things, too, shall pass." Doesn't help him, though.
Yes, friends, he is mad at the world on the outside and really upset with himself on the inside. He has procrastinated his way to panic.
I can't even begin to tell you how familiar that feels.
He has developed a style of living that has most things slide off the todo list merely because they are no longer applicable. That works pretty well (with a permissive parent) until one gets to one' late teen years and discovers the rest of the world is not so tolerant of a failure to do what one is suppose to do.
Without a major change in his point of view, he is going to have a tough summer.
Stacey reminded him that suffering is optional. He didn't want to hear it. Funny, that. :)
From the perspective of age, I can comfortably say, "these things, too, shall pass." Doesn't help him, though.
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Then *poof* I discovered that procrastination only pays off in headaches and worrying and panic and everything else negative. Suddenly, in the last year of my undergrad work, I stopped procrastinating.
You know what? All those problems associated with procrastination disappeared. It was such a stark realization that it actualy set in and really changed how I do things. If it had been a gradual improvement I probably wouldn't have noticed and would likely still be a procrastinator today.