I am home from the Gym. Of course I am not writing this to tell you how clever I am, but in case somebody should take an interest in the book I mentioned earlier: "The Psychology of Procrastination: Understand Your Habits, Find Motivation, and Get Things Done"(2021) by Hayden Finch PhD .

I sat up and read a bit in it after I had made myself ready for the bed yesterday. The first thing I wanted to do this morning was to tell about that, but I have waited until now. I usually take a break after training, so now I have the time to do it.

The author talked about perfectionism and other stuff as causes for procrastinations. I could not identify with perfectionism. In fact I took a conscious choice about never becoming one in my almost grown up years. It has to be the depression and procrastination chapters that will work for me.

The point is, however, that one does not have to have a diagnose to use anti-procrastination tools to help oneself. It is built over the same "shoe" as CBT.

She says that it is the people that uses schedules, planners, apps, that are the most successful people in the world. That is easy to understand, because the more you organize your life the more you are able to do. She says that if it is something procrastinators hate, it is schedules. They have to learn to get used to schedules. A schedule in itself will not help, but so will analyzing what we tell ourselves when we start procrastination, like "I will not be able", "I always fail" and so on. As one usually do in CBT one analyses one's thoughts rationally and probably see that one can make it. It is to have tools for how to start and stop that is the clue in the book. (I have a lot more to read about that and I will not write here about every part in the book). For now I just wanted to share about the main topic ...

Of course there are different sequences in grown up life. The young student with a couple of kids have to organize time different then the old pensioned person. But still there are similarities that organizes the day; dinner at the same time each day, get up in the morning at the same time each day, go to bed at the same time each day and so on.

A parent cannot sit down and say: "I am too tired to make dinner". The dinner is made either the parent feel for it or not. Life become different when the kids has left the nest. One does not have to do it, but it will do one good to continue the good habit.

Check up the book at Amazon to see if it is something for you (if you have problems to start doing things of course). Depressed people will always have such problems to some degree. That makes the book really interesting, because it touches about how many years have you delayed/procrastinated toward the education you wanted to start on, the visit to the friend you promised years ago, the job you wanted and so on ... The book takes the idea about 'procrastinations to a new level. It is not only about filling the dishwasher after dinner. It can be about your future goals (that you never have started on) as well.