by Christine Li | Dec 22, 2013 | Academic, Actions, All Posts, Techniques
When I help students figure out how to get through a week or two of multiple assignments for different classes, I teach them my version of the Foot-in-the-Door technique. I learned the technique when I was in my Social Psychology class in graduate school. The idea,...
by Christine Li | Dec 16, 2013 | Academic, Actions, All Posts, Techniques
The majority of my patients are college students, and working with this group of people is a great privilege. I get to watch people grow in leaps and bounds and rework and refine their personal styles of interacting with the world as they go. I have found that...
by Christine Li | Dec 5, 2013 | All Posts, Resources, Techniques
It is amazing what a single sheet of paper can do. When I tell my patients to download the free version of the Emergent Task Planner, many don’t bother, thinking, perhaps that this is just another task to fall behind on or to forget. Those who listen and use the...
by Christine Li | Nov 28, 2013 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Techniques
Procrastinators can have a difficult time getting around to feeling grateful. They may be chronically stressed, perpetually depleted, constantly bemoaning their plight. Feeling grateful may just seem like a ridiculous waste of time. I think the trick about feeling...
by Christine Li | Nov 18, 2013 | All Posts, Techniques
I have been recommending my patients learn how to use their morning time more productively for a long time. In working with many Procrastinators, I had noticed most struggled with finding time during the day to work and then also lost additional time trying to find...
by Christine Li | Nov 14, 2013 | Actions, All Posts, Resistance, Techniques, Thoughts
[Tweet “One idea brought to fruition is worth 1000 in idea purgatory.”] I am so pleased right now. A moment ago, I tried a new plug-in called “Click to Tweet” for my blog. And as you can see from the Tweet invitation above, it worked. When I...