if you've ever had to take a college test, you may know what avoidance behavior is. you get out your books and notes, arrange them all neat and how you want them. you sit down to study. you get about 10 or 15 minutes into the subject matter when it occurs to you that you need to do the laundry [or dishes or vacuum or fix the car]. all of a sudden, this other task seems much more important than your studies! so the day goes by and you have accomplished maybe an hour or two of preparation for your test. i got so bad at this that i made myself go to the school library to study. there's no laundry there.
today, i am giving a test. but that has nothing to do with my behavior. i need to buy groceries in the worst way. i have had plenty of time this morning to go and get it done. instead, i chose to catch up on my session notes and return business phone calls. legitimate things, right? but i could have done them after 3:00 when punkin gets home from school. so now, i either have to go after school (assuming everyone will finish the test early enough) or drag punkin with me after she gets home. i have made it ultimately worse for myself.
so, what do y'all practice avoidance behavior on?
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Right now I am avoiding putting years of photos into albums which needs to be done. I just dont' understand it. I never used to dread this job but now I have let it go so long that it feels impossible.
Procrastination is the word. The gnawing awareness throughout the delay is why the feeling is so good when we actually bite the pill and take care of things.
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