Quotes from Gloria Arenson

Procrastination is your way of avoiding your fantasy of reality.

Believing these thoughts causes great suffering in my clients' lives. At those times, I feel like Alice in Wonderland talking to the White Queen in Through the Looking Glass. When Alice tells the queen that she can't believe impossible things, the queen replies, "I daresay you haven't had much practice… Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

There is no time in the limbic system. Because of this our past often takes us over without warning and we relive it in ways that can be very troublesome. The

Putting things off or not finishing is behavior that many of us adopt to avoid uncomfortable feelings of pain, guilt, shame, anxiety, or fear. Procrastinators