06-05-2016, 07:47 AM
(06-04-2016, 05:50 PM)DisneylandUSA Wrote: [ -> ](06-04-2016, 01:05 PM)Jake2015 Wrote: [ -> ]And a Question for you all due to an insight I just had:
Before I begin I wasn't sure if this could be posted anywhere else in the forum for Shannon and others to answer, so Ben if you want to move it please do.
I have realised that I'm a night owl. I have always known this but as I procrastinate all day from studying, the time here is now close to midnight and now finally I sit to study. In fairness sleep or drowsiness does enter my eyes so no idea if this is a subconscious defence stopping me from studying haha
So my question is, is there a sub to repel this night owl function and help me to function at my best during the day and sleep during the night?
If you are wondering why, then allow me to shed more light on this first, before you answer:
Basically my university functions like all on a daytime schedule. Lectures are in the very early hours of the morning. Exams are also in the very early hours of the morning.
Coffee shops to post offices/mail rooms to shops and stores all function predominately on a day time schedule.
To be a night owl is great and fun but its not conducive for the day time world. It means I'm like a night shift worker sleeping or being tired in the day when others are out working. I need to change this, rescript my mind so that I function in the day at my best and sleep at night as nature intended.
perhaps my night owl is due to me believing the night is quiet and serene, or perhaps its a false belief and really is simply a bad habit that I created which I think could be the real case, or even a far bigger truth could be that this is a safety net and in actual fact I believe am a night owl when perhaps all I am is a day time procrastinator?
I however do know that I am working now at night because I have wasted all day avoiding work, fear probably and now must work!
so any insights and help please to see what you all think?
EPHRA 2.0; It will be working on Avoidance behaviors especially, Fears. Different Fears including, Fear of Success, Fear of Failure, Etc..
Majority of Procrastination behavior is Avoiding Unpleasant tasks
Disney omg thats it, I procrastinate because I want to avoid unpleasant tasks. From an early age I have the same image in my head of being woken as a kid early, feeling tired and wondering how my father ever woke so early for his shifts. I also procrastinate after an intense bout of motivation.
Ill start a task with high goals, lofty ideals and motivation to do it and believe in my heart that I can, but then life, obstacles and procrastination all get in the way and derail me. I then find it a struggle to get back to it and when I do the cycle repeats.
I now have no obstacles and yet the fear of learning so much material I think keeps me from moving forward.
The greatest of all time Muhammad Ali, (boxer) passed away and the tributes are coming in. This man had no subliminals, he had nothing and yet he got on and did what he needed to, in the most brutal of professions at the most disgusting of recent times, facing fear at every turn.
I live in the now, I have not half of the struggles that man had and yet I can't seem to get up and do things. Why is this the case?