Hi Joe. I recommend finding a therapist that you really connect with, and perhaps looking into various 12 step groups, as there are many addictions that we humans struggle with that aren't necessarily drugs or alcohol. Wishing you the best.

Is there one for procrastination and malaise?

strangely, workaholics anonymous has meetings specifically for work avoidance aka procrastination (I used to struggle with that a lot too) http://www.workaholics-anonymous.org/meetings/13-meeting-det...

"Instead of thinking about getting better, I think it's more helpful to frame progress as things becoming easier." That's a huge insight when you actually become able to stick to habits over the long haul.

Doing all those things I mentioned in the article aren't just possible now, they're easier and in fact feel better than my routine before. I wish someone had told me this years ago... for some reason I thought that routines just continued to be hard forever, because I usually gave up before the point where they became easy.

I used to do the same thing. I'm impatient and I want to see results asap, which makes it really hard to slow down and take it one thing at a time.

The thing I've learned lately is that with habits, going faster in the short term slows you WAY down in the long run. Counterintuitive, but 100% true.

Thank you!!

1. Thank you for the question; I do think it's worth asking and discussing. 2. I'm not sure 'bitch' should be a negative term, and my self-esteem is high enough that I feel comfortable owning the term. 3. I'm a growth marketer and I knew it would get a bunch of clicks.

I agree with you that bitch should not be a negative term. After all it just a female dog. But colloquially it is used as a negative term. That’s the society/world we live in. It dosnt matter what you and I believe how it should be used. What matters is how’s it is actually used. You wouldn’t get the clicks you were after if the word was used as you think it should be would you? And my question comes from that perspective of grounding in our world’s reality. Given that, by used the term, it promotes objectification - May be not yours since your self esteem allows you to own it - but of women in general. And that might be too selfish of an action perhaps?

Maybe. But maybe it's like calling Voldemort 'he who shall not be named.'“Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” By using 'taboo words' like bitch, we decrease the stigma around them.

Yikes, thanks for pointing that out!

Yes I agree. I call it the 'dip of doom' that happens at the 4-6 month mark. If you push through it, you're golden, but so many people give up.

I recently got my life together and wanted to share what's been working for me.

I definitely relate to this.

Sometimes the anxiety of doing something important makes that something seem much harder than it actually is.

Lowering the bar helps ease that anxiety.

I've picked up a whole flossing habit just by starting with "at least one tooth and then you can stop if you'd like" ha

I did the same thing with flossing! Almost at one year streak now. Glad you've found something that works for you too. :)

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