How My Brain Works
Before I get into it, I just want to put in a plug for pandora.com. Pandora is a site that gives you your own internet radio station, and judging by what you tell it you like or hate, it trys to give you songs that will best suit your taste. Thus far it seems a lot less scientific than it proclaims to be, but hey free music to listen to at work.
I have realized recently that try as I might I am only capable of having one major stress in my life at a time. For some reason when I am worried about doing two things I always think I should do whichever is most urgent first, but I usually feel like doing the one that is less urgent first. Unfortunately, instead of working on either I think of the more pressing task and how much I would rather do the less pressing and don’t seem to start either until the last possible moment.
It is strange to me that no matter what I am trying to accomplish, it always takes far longer and is way more stressful when I am scrambling to get it done. I am also constantly amazed at the unlikely problems that only seem to arrive when I am struggling to get something done last minute.
Everytime I go through the experience of having a relatively simple task stress me out, take twice as long, and generally make my life horrible, I always think, “I am going to get everything done early next time.” Unfortunately, I invariably fall into the before mentioned situation where I am unable to accomplish anything on time if I have more than one stressor.
