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How to Break Things Down & Put Things Together To Manage Energy, Emotion, Procrastination, Confusion, Impulsiveness, and Anxiety
By Jan B. Roosa, Ph.D.
Bill had developed a reputation as a procrastinator. He was anzious and worried and often thought of himself as a loser and lazy. The problem was a breakdownin his Analysis and Synthesis skills that are necessary to lead into Decision-Making and Doing. After learning these skills his self-doubting and anxiety went way down. He learned how to move ahead and was soon no longer labeled a procrastinator. You can imagine how that helped his sense of satisfaction and confidence.
There seem to be a number of people who "yes, but" a lot. Noticed that lately? You are germinating a plan --- anything from deciding to feed the cat, to birth a baby --- and the person with whom you are discussing throws in stoppers. "Yes, but if the cat eats, the litter box needs to be changed more often." "Yes, but are you sure we can afford a baby, now?"
He or she comes up with some reason that unnecessarily complicates matters. Or he finds holes in the proposal that seemingly scuttles the whole thing. Or she gets stuck on finding ALL of the factors in a situation, and can't move on until the search is COMPLETE, and exhausting to you and all those involved.
People who do this are paralyzing by analyzing --- Analysis taken too far. We often call this "thinking too much." It is as if their brain cannot break things down into relevant components AND move into integrating, i.e., synthesizing, them into a plan that can be put into action.
We often call this "thinking too much". Actually, it is overloading analysis and forsaking synthesis --- analyzing too much.
If we are unable to put together plans to make things work, we will over time become angry, cynical, fearful, saddened, feel stupid, or sometimes even possess the arrogance of ignorance. . .
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