general What's your biggest flaw?

[ComanderZhabikKlavik 2,775]

Laziness and procrastination. This is a problem for me; I have too many plans for my life and laziness gets in the way. I have a way to combat laziness that always works: watching videos about self-development, it always helps. After these videos, you are determined to develop and not be lazy. Daily propaganda of self-development helps against laziness. Now there are a lot of videos on YouTube about how self-development ruins life. Some people engage in self-development for the sake of self-development; they do not have a specific goal. I have certain goals, so self-development improves my life.

[Iforgotmybrain 5,358]

I can be a bit of a perfectionist and be a bit obsessive. For example, if I have an appointment for something, that's the only thing I'll be able to focus on until its over. If I sell an item and it needs packaged and shipped, I won't be able to focus or comfortably do anything else until I have said item packed up and either shipped or scheduled for pick up. And even when its shipped I'll be worrying that I didn't pack it right and it's going to get damaged until its finally delivered. This happens with my writing too, I'll edit or rewrite things way more often than they really need to be because I'll be so focused on making sure I've written everything as well as I possibly can even if the first draft was perfectly fine.

I can also be overly emotional. But I almost don't consider that a flaw. I'd rather be too emotional than be aloof and completely devoid of empathy and sympathy.

[Finding_Marty 720]

I have two things that really get on my nerve sometimes but I doubt I can help it:

1. I have a real problem with work-life balance. I know that lots of people in my profession have the same problem and mine is caused beause of two things - I can't say 'no' to people when they ask me for help and somehow I feel I need to prove myself I can do it all. Anyway, this June was very difficult for me because I worked everyday as much as I could, got no weekends, slept around 4-5 hours a day mostly because I was thinking how to schedule everything and how to finish it all on time. At the end of the month I was a total mess without energy and promised myself I won't work during weekends anymore. I had to say no to people who asked me for my service during weekends in July and I felt bad about it. My work is quite specific and I mostly work as much as I want. So I made some plans for this July. I wanted to work max 8 hrs a day, have free weekends and finally focus on learning new things - since February I had little time for this. And now it's all the way around. I work as little as I can. I just feel like I don't have strength for this... but at the same time I feel that if I countinue like this I will lose all the opportunities for work I have achieved so far. So probably soon I will work everyday, as much as I can again. This happens to me all the time and really bothers me... I just can't find my work-life balance...

2. Another thing is my character. I think I am extremly open to people, which means I don't mind treating people like we were old good friends and this is not something I pretend (perhaps some people may find me phoney and keep their distance). I wanted to change this in me but to be honest I wasn't happy to act like not me. This does no harm to anybody so I decided to be my-self. Next thing is you may sometimes think I am rude... but it's never because I want to offend or look down on somebody. No. I do it only to people which I really like (and see my problem above with being open to others). The problem is some people may take it personally and it's understandable for me. As you can imagine I stick with people with characteristic humour who understand such 'jokes' and are 'rude' to me as well. I try to fight it as long as I know the personality of the person I speak with but I may make mistakes so please remember, if I ever say something not nice to you or you find me rude, don't be mad nor sad. Insulting you will never be my goal. I just may find it funny. it's obvious you may not. It's my weird sense of humor.

[Igloostellar Snow 1,243]

My anxiety can really effect my life in negative ways. It prevents me from doing things such as talking to people and- well, literally moving at all. (In school, I'm always afraid everyone is judging every single thing I do, so I don't like to raise my hand to ask questions or move from my seat.) Honestly, it's affecting me on this site right now. I'd love to make friends with people on here, but I'm worried that I might say something wrong or do the wrong thing. Oh, maybe I've said too much. I'm starting to regret writing this. Uh. 

[Finding_Marty 720]

46 minutes ago, Interstellar Sketch said:

My anxiety can really effect my life in negative ways. It prevents me from doing things such as talking to people and- well, literally moving at all. (In school, I'm always afraid everyone is judging every single thing I do, so I don't like to raise my hand to ask questions or move from my seat.) Honestly, it's affecting me on this site right now. I'd love to make friends with people on here, but I'm worried that I might say something wrong or do the wrong thing. Oh, maybe I've said too much. I'm starting to regret writing this. Uh. 

I used to feel the same way! 

[ComanderZhabikKlavik 2,775]

10 hours ago, Interstellar Sketch said:

My anxiety can really effect my life in negative ways. It prevents me from doing things such as talking to people and- well, literally moving at all. (In school, I'm always afraid everyone is judging every single thing I do, so I don't like to raise my hand to ask questions or move from my seat.) Honestly, it's affecting me on this site right now. I'd love to make friends with people on here, but I'm worried that I might say something wrong or do the wrong thing. Oh, maybe I've said too much. I'm starting to regret writing this. Uh. 

When I was in school I had the same problem.