Avoidance Behavior?

Monday, January 12, 2009, by Leigh Anne & Sherra

Question of the Week

What’s your favorite way to avoid focusing on a task that you know you should be doing?

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Leigh Anne says,
Oh, I have so many!! Usually something on the computer – reading my email, reading blogs etc. I have been known to clean out a drawer or two just to avoid doing something. You can tell by how clean and organized my house is how many things I have been avoiding!!

Sherra says…
Like Leigh Anne, I am a master at avoidance. I’ll organize files on my hard drive, re-arrange my iTunes playlists, play Boggle on the computer, call a friend and talk for an hour…and there is always a drawer or cabinet to re-organize because my kids almost never put anything back where it goes. I’m also really good at taking a nap.

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11 Responses to “Avoidance Behavior?”

With the cyber world right at my fingertips, there are too many ways to avoid the things I should be concentrating on. Shopping online, online games, email, and of course these wonderful blogs! I try to set a time limit on my cyber-goof-off time otherwise the day will be over before I know it and I won’t have accomplished anything. Yikes!

Facebook! Aargh! I could spend hours on that website.

I agree with Sarah: Facebook! It’s entirely too addictive and I LOVE connecting with old friends again. I also read blogs, window shop on-line and play games with my kids.

Sounds like the computer is our common “avoidance tool”. I’m the same: e-mails, blogs, and facebook!

Computer usage in any way and ESPECIALLY the phone are my avoidance tools! I still feel like I’m accomplishing a little somethin’ somethin’ if I’m connecting with friends on the phone!

Blogging It’s way to addictive.

I play Solitaire on my DS, or surf the web, anything that takes my mind off of the task at hand works for me!

Oh, how this laptop aids me in avoidance. I am fully capable of sitting in front of it for hours. Blogging, reading blogs, online communities, email, skyping w/ friends and family…oh the blessed computer. And when I have something wretched, like continuing education exams…my house is spotless, the frig, the oven, the washer/dryer.

Wow I am the only one that doesn’t spend that much time on the computer…that is because I am living in the past. I am not that savvy on it so I don’t really explore . I rearrange my store, or paint a wall…that is my distraction to bookwork or cleaning. I do also have to admit I am a soap opera junkie . In the winter I love to read.

I check my e-mail way too often and try to respond. . . . .also I comment on Leigh Anne’s blogs. Also I get online and work on genealogy–trying to put so many puzzle pieces together.

Oh I agree with so many of these! Facebook for sure, reading blogs, and watching Gilmore Girls on DVD will always occupy me and let avoid something I should be doing!