From time to time, I tend to think I’m the laziest girl alive, and that I should be doing something about it. Instead, to run from the feeling of failure and underperforming, I watch TV (as some people watch series on Netflix). In other words, I run from my emotions and go the easy way. As this a pattern I’ve come to recognize through the years, I can now identify it when it appears. I usually begin by getting easily distracted on my daily work, losing my ability to focus for more than 15 minutes on typical tasks. I surf through my social networks more times a day than I can count, take more breaks, and with all that, comes the guilt. The fears of being unproductive and not reaching the expectations people have on me (and that I have on myself) come to the surface. Impostor syndrome As an anxious person, it’s sometimes close to impossible not to feel the weight of the expectations we think the world has on us. I tend to think I’m not doing and being enough since I strive for a vague idea of perfection in everything I do. Simply put, I’m rarely satisfied … Continue reading The pattern of laziness and evolution