[QUOTE=LizJ]I always seem to have trouble estimating the time that it takes to complete a task or project. I will over-estimate how long it will take to do a very simple task, like writing a letter to a friend, paying a bill = I put it off and then it never gets done or is late. On the other hand I may come up with a huge time-consuming project and then try to get it done in a very short period of time. Makes me crazy![/QUOTE]
Oh yes! I have to really make a concerted effort to get anywhere on time. If is for an appointment, then I have to "pretend" that it is at least 30 minutes earlier than it is, in order to possibly get there on time. If I am anxious, and really don't want to go to begin with, it is even more difficult.
i was always told 'you're going to be late to your own funeral!'
i had an uncle, who was, in fact, late to his own funeral.
it was outside of a small town in the great white north, close to christmas time.
while en route to town, the sleigh carrying his pine box, with him in it, broke down- guess where? right near the tavern he frequented all those years in the sticks!
having good sense, a deep chill, and a natural thirst, the family members transporting him to the funeral home stopped and tipped a few.
that is how he was late for his own funeral. but, i digress.
i'm constantly in trouble for promising i'll be done more quickly than it really takes.
i work as fast as i can, but the clock always moves faster.
in the back of my mind i know sometimes that the 'five minutes' this little thing will take, will invariably make me 20 mins. late. yet, i get sidetracked anyhow.
My mother always used to say I had no sense of time and she was right. Time always has gotten away from me. I used to even be late to job interviews and got expert at explaining that I got lost some how or other which would be true to some extent. It seems like if I don't leave early I'll mess up and be late.Yep! I am the same. I think I can paint a picture in an hour yet I know writing a letter and posting it will take me a month! I never get things done. I have terrible sense of time. This morning tried to get ready for work, thought it would take me 20 mins. Forgetting how ADDish I am, it took me an hour. I forgot things, couldn't decide what to wear and got easily distracted by things around me.
What is time? Just made up numbers we all live by in hope our lives my run smoother!!
that's me too. Something as simple as taking out the trash, emptying the dishwasher, etc. is too much for me "it will take too long", I say to myself.
Somehow though other tasks that I think I can get done quickly take way longer than I thought and usually interupts the plan for the rest of the day.
I try to take a second and "talk to myself" and remind myself that the simple tasks really don't take that long and make you feel better once they are done. On the other hand with the in-depth tasks I try to break the task up and figure out how much each part of the task will take and get a true measure for how much time I need to allow.
This whole process is new to me but it seems to be working, when I remember to utilize it.
I always procrastinate or miscalculate the amount of time it will take me to get where ever I need to go. I am always rushing and late. I have been late to every doctor's appointment I have been to in the last 6 months. Insanity!I always seem to have trouble estimating the time that it takes to complete a task or project. I will over-estimate how long it will take to do a very simple task, like writing a letter to a friend, paying a bill = I put it off and then it never gets done or is late. On the other hand I may come up with a huge time-consuming project and then try to get it done in a very short period of time. Makes me crazy!