What is your Achilles heel?

Run into it head first and try to learn as much as you can while doing so, you have to try and take it seriously – remember everything in the world is abstract. From the lexicon hypothesis to god.

I’m horrible at writing papers, but when the time comes I simply press my way through it. I think what i hate most about it is that it is so time consuming.. but you have to find your “flow” your “hardiness” your “reason for being”

make things interesting for yourself

I have tried to learn piano. I did both my daughters’ work but I can’t keep it in my memory! so I had like 5 years of little girl lessons and flunked!

Johnpowell! So distracting!

(this does merit a serious response which will come at a later time)

I should actually say Fluther! So distracting! I have a bio final in four hours and I’m teasing JP from a distance on Fluther. How productive.

Being afraid of spiders.

I always leave work to the last minute, no matter what. I guess I get past it by actually realizing how much work I’ve left myself to do.

Studying for this Russian exam >< I always wait till 6am to do it (sigh)

If I can’t figure out how to approach a task, I get depressed and procrastinate.
I need to know what to do. Or I need to be able to figure it out.

Mine is, quite literally, my achilles heel. After ankle surgery to repair a broken foot/ankle and associated tendons, walking can be quite challenging some days. Of course that alone makes me depressed which causes me to engage in lethargic behaviors (sloth). So I hang out on the computer and things sometimes don’t get done which means I have to do them at the last minute, which causes me to over-do it, which makes my ankle hurt worse . . . you can just imagine the vicious cycle.

Fattening foods. It’s a huge struggle for me to eat healthy. Huge. And so is my ass. :(

Procrastination, my semi-low self esteem and doughnuts.

Ha.. pretty much what @tedibear39 said. Mmmm.. doughnuts. I seriously ate like 6 jelly-filled Krispy Kremes in one night at work recently. They were so many of them just sitting there, taunting me.

Procrastination is a huge one. I have so much trouble getting motivated to do a lot of things. It’s not fear of failure usually, it’s just that I don’t want to do them. So my bills are late, I’m late, my room ends up being a disaster because I don’t feel like picking up.. it pretty much affects most areas of my life. The only time I don’t procrastinate is when I’m inspired or really want to do something.

I have low self-esteem, as well, and it’s something I can’t seem to shake. I base so much of my self-esteem on my weight, yet I seriously have no concept whatsoever of how I appear to others. I feel unattractive a lot, but I’ve heard from people that that isn’t true.. I wish I could step out of myself and meet me to form an opinion for myself.

Candy and delicious food should probably also count as an Achilles heel of mine, judging from how much I indulge in it, but it doesn’t seem to have very serious consequences for me at the moment. My body fat percentage is quite fine. I guess I exercise enough.
So that’s cool.

Self-deprecation.

It occurred to me recently that I don’t even know why I do this anymore. It’s a bad habit, like smoking, except I took this bad habit up at 3 and I’m finding it a lot harder to quit. It was easier to quit smoking!

I am directionally challenged and I have bad vision – if I am lost somewhere and without my glasses, I feel very weak

I think I have mild ADD and find it very hard to focus on one task to completion. This has gotten worse since the advent of Fluther.

@MissAnthrope – Are you my long-lost sister or something?! I am literally unable to eat just one doughnut if there is more than one near me. They are my kryptonite.

“I wish I could step out of myself and meet me to form an opinion for myself.” Wow… that’s what I wish too.

My compassion.. a blessing and a curse… it makes me far too trusting at times.. and far too gullible.

Cooking. I’m not really allowed to go near anything that can start a fire.