Today was not a good day. I did a lot of procrastinating today. I did a little of the work I was supposed to do, but I did a lot of procrastinating. So, it wasn't a good day as far as training myself away from procrastinating.
How will tomorrow be better? What can I do to make it better?
I was procrastinating by playing online solitaire.
One thing I noticed is that while I play a mindless computer game, I focus just enough that I stop worrying. It doesn't require so much focus as to be difficult, but it's enough focus to take my mind off my worries. I think that's why it feels so good to play.
Maybe I can try actively worrying when I'm procrastinating. Because my only goal right now is to cure my procrastination habit, I really don't need to worry about anything at all, except when I'm procrastinating I need to worry about that. So, if it starts to be that whenever I procrastinate I manage to fill myself with that bad worry feeling, and then when I'm not procrastinating I don't worry about anything else and just say, "Yay! I'm not procrastinating," then I'll associate a bad feeling with procrastinating and a good feeling with doing whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing at that moment.
I'll try that tomorrow. Every so often, maybe every 15 minutes, I'll ask myself, "Am I doing what I'm supposed to be doing?" If the answer is yes, I'll say, "Yay! I win!" And if the answer is no, I'll say "Oh no! This is a big worry!"
And I'll report back at the end of the day tomorrow.
What did I mean about bookkeeping? I meant keeping track of how I do each day with my anti-procrastination project. I wonder, what is a word for "not procrastinating?" It would be nice to use a word that wasn't in the negative. Maybe "acting accordingly." That's a mouthful. Hmmm. Some other ideas: acting favorably, acting as desired, positive acting, proactivity. I think that's it: proactivity.
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