ARRGH! Make it stop! Make it stop!

[CDNSushi]

Do you ever get your head so full of random ideas, things-to-do, miscellaneous thoughts that you can't get anything done?

Man, I'm on a serious deadline here. I need to read two book chapters and complete an assignment for the online course I'm taking and I have to have it done in a few hours... But I just can't THINK!

Yeah, I'm procrastinating here... <sigh> But unplugging the PC/Internet wouldn't help though because it won't unplug all the stuff that's going on in my brain -- which doesn't need a plugin or a net connection. It's happy just to keep distracting me regardless.

I don't think I'm ADD or anything but... I just... can't.... concentrate...

Any suggestions??

[Bugbear]

No... No suggestions.

Wait, did you try drinking a glass of water while standing on your head? It might work for hickups.

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Go eat something with blueberries in it. Seriously, blueberry essence has something in it that helps sort thoughts into actions.

Works for me anyway.


--Chelsea McMurdo--
Concocter and fan of natural healing and remedies

[SteveB]

Have a favourite snack or beverage? or internet site to surf?
Allocate one of these for each important project completed.
Write down the list by priority and reward.
I am here posting AFTER practicing two rounds of Amazing Grace on my chanter.
A good round of one of the tunes that I need to memorize for class, and a simple pleasure, then back to the work. It gives the brain a chance to store and defrag the last project and clean up before the next.

Slainte

[BroosterB1]

Click your heals together three times while saying "there's no place like home"? Oh wait, that to get out of Oz, for random thoughts when you have a deadline.......Go for a walk, kiss your wife, take a shower...that's what I do.ith:

[CDNSushi]

Go for a walk, kiss your wife, take a shower...that's what I do.ith:

In that order? Wow. Some interesting suggestions thus far. I like the one about the blueberries though...

Status update: got my writing done; still have to read a pile though. I think I get the way I do because I tend to get overwhelmed by projects. But yeah, the PRINCIPLE of the thing is to clear out your head by doing something completely unrelated, and having a plan of what to tackle, in what order, and in what timeline when you come back from your mental break...

I'm taking a mental break now.....

:soda:

[Bugbear]

Have you tried focusing your thoughts by lifting cinderblocks with your mind? It's a lot safer than splitting cinderblocks with your forehead...

Just joking. Good luck with your reading.

[Mr. Kilt]

I have the same problem as you. I have things to get done, yet I seem to find ways of procrastinating. I don't think I have ADD, but you never...Oh look! Pretty birds!!

[piperdbh]

One of my 9th graders told me that instead of ADD, I have ADOS: Attention Deficit... Oh, Shiny!

[Downix]

Quick way to test for ADD, drink a 2 liter of Mt Dew. If you can concentrate better, get yourself checked out. If not, well, enjoy the buzz. 8)