How I got to 200 productive hours a month

Re:How I got to 200 productive hours a month by te_chris on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:23AM (#15310284)

Not even a just diagnosis as specific as ADHD. I was a chronic procrastinator due to anxiety and high expectations of perfectionism. Working with a psychologist using CBT has transformed my productivity by allowing me to learn that it's possible to let things not be 'perfect', whatever that meant anyway.

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Re:How I got to 200 productive hours a month by csdreamer7 on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:38AM (#15310334)

Thanks for posting this. I suffer from perfectionism too and it leads to a lot of procrastination. Realizing that getting things to 'okay' was fine was an important step for me, because my okay was often others 'good' or 'excellent'.

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Re:How I got to 200 productive hours a month by te_chris on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:01AM (#15311345)

My pleasure. It was only about halfway through my course of CBT that procrastination and perfectionism came up as related to anxiety. It was a mind-blowing moment.

The weird thing was I knew it all, but something hadn't connected in my thinking that it was better to do/make/release things than to not. The mind is weird place.

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