My blog has its first birthday today, with this, my 100th post. It's been an interesting year of writing. Now it's time for a change.
I was somewhat reluctant to get involved with Psychology Today and this blog early last spring when I was first invited. I'm busy at work and home. However, I'm glad I made the choice to author this "Don't Delay" blog. I have thoroughly enjoyed my writing, and I've learned a great deal reading colleagues' posts. I think the Psychology Today blogs are one of the most interesting, dynamic and informative online sources about psychology in the world.
Now one year, 100 entries and hundreds of thousands of readers' views later, I think it's time for a change in my writing.
To date, I have created quite a comprehensive collection of entries in which I have summarized and commented on just about everything written about procrastination in the recent past. Note, I said, "just about everything." There are more research papers and books that I will get to (for example, I'm reading a soon-to-be published paper on "future-oriented self-regulatory behavior and proactive coping" that I think is very interesting). However, I want to do more than this.
Although summarizing research literature and interpreting the results is interesting for me, and given the number of readers and positive comments, interesting to Psychology Today blog readers as well, the blog is too much a one-way affair. I need to hear from you to guide at least some of my writing in the year ahead.
- What about procrastination troubles you?
- What do you want to understand more clearly?
- What stories are you willing to share about your own procrastination (or someone close to you) that we can discuss as anonymous case studies?
- Do you have comments you want to share about the blog?
I've set up an email account at blogtopics@procrastination.ca for your input. Alternatively, you can just post a response to the blog itself using the tools provided on the Psychology Today blogs. I won't reply to you individually, but I hope to incorporate your comments, struggles, stories and insights in future blog postings.
It's important to note that I am a researcher, not a counselor or clinical psychologist. I will not provide any counseling or provide any sort of clinical appraisal of your situation. If you're troubled by your procrastination, you should see your family physician for a referral or contact a clinical psychologist or counselor directly.
This blog is about making sense of procrastination. I do hope it contributes to further self-reflection and insight. I know I learn a great deal from reading, writing and thinking about reader comments.
One thing that I will do in the near future is provide a "reader's guide" to the entries. I'll organize this guide so that the blog entries will read more like a book rather than a chronology of postings. I hope this will help readers who find this blog now (they may feel less overwhelmed by the volume of entries, and they will have an easier time finding topics of interest).
It's been a year and 100 posts. Where I go in the year ahead with this blog will depend to some extent on your input. As Clay Shirky says, "Here comes everybody!" I await your input and thank you for joining the growing "Don't Delay" community at Psychology Today.
