How did you get over procrastination?

[axeman61]

When I get out of school, I work on my homework. Since I only go to college this semester two days a week, I work on pieces after school and finish early in the morning on the days I'm out. Then I can have worry-free fun, dancing and singing with a naked Esther Baxter.
...Yeah, the above scenario is a damned fantasy. I goddamn wish I could just do that. Kill homework and have 'pure' fun. A naked Ms. Baxter would be awesome too, but that's impossible.
Instead, a lack of self-control, forgetfulness, laziness, and knowing I'll typically do good come crunch time hold me back. The biggest hit I've taken from procrastination is a 2.5 in one of my quasi-online college courses. Screwed up my GPA a little, but it turned out to be no biggie. My problem is the stress of the last minute. I push to get work out, but it has me in a nervous wreck when it happens. I hate that. The painful thing is knowing the other side of the coin would be better. That's why I called it pure fun earlier. Playing games and surfing the net with nothing to do would be awesome.
Even when it comes to planning, I lack motivation. I know my plans don't have to be perfect, to cut things into pieces, etc., but can't get myself to stick to planning stuff.
I'm going to see a counselor about this the Thursday I get back from Spring Break. Still, if any of you have gotten last-minute-itis under control, I'd like to know how you did it.

[sixtymhz]

To get over procrastination is to just wait till its a good time for you to get over it.

[Million]

Maybe it's just me, but I think it's just close to impossible. I never got over it...but I still managed to get thru college and graduate school, surprisingly. Even now, I'm forever putting off the search for a much better job, because I've become complacent with having a regular cash flow on this one.

I was ok at first in elementary school...I'd actually do homework in a few minutes(super fast because I was just that awesome, and so far above my peers at the time. I'm not humble at all about this, because it was a matter of fact, rather than opinion....and it's funny and amusing to be such an elitist douche sometimes, especially when you happen to be correct about the situation) Anyway, there was a time when I did the work first....but then laziness set in, perhaps since I was so accustomed to always doing well academically....and I was a lazy bastard from about 6th or 7th grade on thru the rest of my academic career.

[Adam Warlock]

I'll tell you tomorrow.

[BornAgainCommunist]

i stopped pretending to care about homework in 9th grade yet i made half way through 12 on charm alone. It is possible to succeed, fuck society. at such a tender age, its good to think universal, drop some acid, take a drive, scoop up a burnt out raver bitch, find yerself. try to save yourself and youll never get it. but if you dont give a fuck then youll always have it. procarasta what?

[xero15]

I'll tell you tomorrow.

smart ass. for me it depends on the situation. i procrastinate on working out at sometimes but then i tell myself that if i dont get around to doin it i will be a weakling all my life so i get up and do it. homework i use to put off but then i tell myself if i dont get this shit done im gonna automatically fail. ill say that even if i have an A+ in the class just so i can do it. it all depends on you and how you react to certain scenarios and how much you care.

[King9999]

smart ass. for me it depends on the situation. i procrastinate on working out at sometimes but then i tell myself that if i dont get around to doin it i will be a weakling all my life so i get up and do it. homework i use to put off but then i tell myself if i dont get this shit done im gonna automatically fail. ill say that even if i have an A+ in the class just so i can do it. it all depends on you and how you react to certain scenarios and how much you care.

That's basically it...procrastination is all in the mind. You have to focus on the rewards for doing something now rather than later, and focus on how badly you want the thing you're aiming for. Your subconscious will eventually get it, and then you won't procrastinate.

[Biolink]

Maybe it's just me, but I think it's just close to impossible. I never got over it...but I still managed to get thru college and graduate school, surprisingly. Even now, I'm forever putting off the search for a much better job, because I've become complacent with having a regular cash flow on this one.

I was ok at first in elementary school...I'd actually do homework in a few minutes(super fast because I was just that awesome, and so far above my peers at the time. I'm not humble at all about this, because it was a matter of fact, rather than opinion....and it's funny and amusing to be such an elitist douche sometimes, especially when you happen to be correct about the situation) Anyway, there was a time when I did the work first....but then laziness set in, perhaps since I was so accustomed to always doing well academically....and I was a lazy bastard from about 6th or 7th grade on thru the rest of my academic career.

Similar story that I am going through right now.I was so ahead of everybody else,that I got real complacent because I was a straight A student until basically 6th grade,because I never really had to study.Now I am a student in Highschool that is not working to my full potential.I do the work and I'll study(Every now and then),but sometimes I feel like work is just a big waste of time.

[Arcas V]

Just with time. After so many medeocre grades I just got tired of it. Not that it's completly gone, though. All I can really say is to try and find interest in the topic you're studying... but that's bs if you have a class you really hate :bluu:

[Night]

Well, one way to look at it is to think about when you go to bed and how much sleep you get every night. Sleep is very underrated. Think about how many hours you get, and how you feel every morning and during the day depending on those hours you get.

For example, if you go to bed on the average of 1:00am, get 6 hrs of sleep and feel like a zombie (or maybe just "okay") in the morning, set a goal to always go to bed at 11:00pm at the latest every night to get 8 hours and feel MUCH better. If you get into that routine, then you end up pushing your action-items ahead, so you end up studying and doing your homework to meet your self-imposed 11:00 deadline. When you get decent sack time and the results are much better in the morning, then you start to tell yourself that you want to keep that up!

Looking back, I wish I did that... I was always one of those guys that started writing the paper at 2:00am of the literal due date, started studying at that time as well, and just got minutes of sleep and woke up to take the test... I probably would've gotten the same results had I just wrote the paper earlier, studied earlier, yet I would've physically felt much better with a decent night's sleep!

[Azrael]

Looking back, I wish I did that... I was always one of those guys that started writing the paper at 2:00am of the literal due date, started studying at that time as well, and just got minutes of sleep and woke up to take the test...
I got all of you guys beat.

Paper Deadline: 9AM
Paper Start Time: 6AM (Which includes reading, for the first time, any books/research needed to write the paper)

I wish I could help too, but I never broke the habit. I never had any motivation to do so - I got A's on all those 3hr jobs. The few times I actually sat down and pounded it out before hand, I'd get B/C's. I guess I just do my best work under pressure.

It hasn't really ended since graduation either. Like yesterday, I had a shitload of work to do, but I ended up browsing SRK all morning. I just can't concentrate unless that shit is right down to the wire.

[DS]

I got all of you guys beat.

Paper Deadline: 9AM
Paper Start Time: 6AM (Which includes reading, for the first time, any books/research needed to write the paper)

I wish I could help too, but I never broke the habit. I never had any motivation to do so - I got A's on all those 3hr jobs. The few times I actually sat down and pounded it out before hand, I'd get B/C's. I guess I just do my best work under pressure.





I wrote a paper on the economic success of anime in North America in FIVE minutes and got a A. I beat out a kid that did a paper on ovary cancer. He got a C. And if I would have failed due to procrastination, I would have fucked my English teacher in the ass. She was cute and she looked like she was willing.

I actually miss college now. Putting those older kids to shame. :sad:

[Kuenai]

I wrote a paper on the economic success of anime in North America in FIVE minutes and got a A. I beat out a kid that did a paper on ovary cancer. He got a C. And if I would have failed due to procrastination, I would have fucked my English teacher in the ass. She was cute and she looked like she was willing.

I actually miss college now. Putting those older kids to shame. :sad:

It's great putting the older college kids to shame, isn't it? :lovin:

Some teachers are easy to get a good grade with when you know what they're looking for in a paper. And when they like you. Like when I got an A in PoliSci 202 when I did each WEEK's worth of work at the last hour to post it, yet I got a B on the final presentation in Psych from the instructor when everyone in the class rated me at an A and my teammates at B's and C's. :rofl:

I still procrastinate, and I'm having a hard time trying to stop. Your idea of going to a counselor about it after spring break is starting to sound REALLY good right now. I'm doing it, damnit. Now I just can't put off setting up the appointment until th last minute =[

[white shadow]

What I find wierd is, whenever I don't procrastinate on my research papers or projects I always end up with worse grade than when I do procrastinate and do my work at last minute. :confused: Maybe it's much easier to focus on something with more diligence when you have pressure than when doing your work over a long span of time?

[J-ride]

I was cured of procrastination my freshman year of college. It really was mostly out of necessity, because as a science major, every single one of my major professors acted as if they were my only teacher, so I always had enormous work loads (or study loads) for each science class. I usually had 3 or more at one time. So, I always had to get stuff done early to manage, and by doing so, I barely was able to get everything done. But now that I work for a guy who wants things done quickly, it really comes in handy.

[Yumi Saotome]

I have all y'all beat.

I had to do a digital circuit design presentation in front of a tribunal of electrical engineering professors for my final exam. The project was on designing the most effective and cheapest TV remote control circuit possible that would also work on any TV and appliance you wanted it to. Each of us had to give a 30 minute presentation and take Q&A.

I kinda gave up on it and thought I was gonna fail the class so I threw together some slides 10 minutes before class and went in there and dazzled the tribunal with bullshit.

I dunno why, but public speaking has never been that worrysome for me and it seems like when I'm pushed against the wall, I have this ability to speak with crazy eloquence. Sometimes it feels like I'm watching myself speak rather than me actually speaking. I always did well in anything that required giving a speech presentation (many people would ask me how I could give speeches without ever saying "um" or stuttering or pausing to think).

Anyways, I suppose my improv stunned them so much that I was the only person who didn't get any questions from the tribunal. Afterwards, I overheard one professor saying "He had some great ideas, very creative and out of the box, BUT....." and I didn't hear the rest, but somehow I got an A for the class.

I don't know how to deal with procrastination either, unless I'm just unnaturally motivated to do an assignment. Speaking presentations are the worst, since I always leave that for the last minute and assume that my magic speaking skills would kick in, though that seems to work 99% of the time. Honestly, I still don't know how I do that though.

[blooper]

this topic always comes up around finals week.

on the bright side i got 240/250 on my final research paper that i did the hour before class. woo!

[Unreallystic]

Who says I am cured?

The best I've been able to do is rid myself of time consuming activites. In college I did not allow myself to watch anime during the semester, nor play any RPG. This was great in that all that was left was fightign games which I can put down with ease.

Though that all cahnged when an MMO (City of Heroes) walked into my life. Just evil. In a little under two years of owning that game I've logged over 100 DAYS of playtime...no exageration...that shit was crack. So - get rid of all time absorbing 'fun' activities during the semester - thru sheer boredom you will force yourself to do your work. It helps to try and work with people. And the final trick - the one that really got me to handle my BI...

don't leave campus/your school building - until dinner time. It sucks sometimes, but you'll find all your homework done, studying, and you'll get ahead of the game as well.
- :bluu:

[Jaldaboath]

I did?

[woof]

get mad

[Mavric]

Similar story that I am going through right now.I was so ahead of everybody else,that I got real complacent because I was a straight A student until basically 6th grade,because I never really had to study.Now I am a student in Highschool that is not working to my full potential.I do the work and I'll study(Every now and then),but sometimes I feel like work is just a big waste of time.

Do want I did and get someone to say you have a learning disability like dyslexia. I can't remember learning shit in high school cause I got to get out of so much :rofl:

[Biolink]

Do want I did and get someone to say you have a learning disability like dyslexia. I can't remember learning shit in high school cause I got to get out of so much :rofl:

You actually did that :rofl:

[Pained Auron]

i'm still working on it

[versus addict]

Less weed?

[ReptarBar]

who says i did?

[ReptarBar]

I just can't concentrate unless that shit is right down to the wire.

Co-Sign right thur

Hate to double post but i'm too lazy to go back and edit so fuck it.

[Cardiology]

emply the 5 minute rule

[solidfox]

Honestly to this day I never got over it, it's f**kin me over big time. In the end I agree with everyone here you gotta think of the long term awards and go from there.

[Goose]

Just don't do it. You can't procrastinate something you're not gonna do.