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How do you fight procrastination?

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Seriyvolk
Profile Joined July 2011
37 Posts
October 24 2011 18:28 GMT
#1
While I'm at school I always think about how important it is to do my homework and read what's on the study list. Yet when I come home I immediately relax and just play starcraft or watch streams.

How does an average teamliquid reader counter this OP phenomenon?
Nagisama
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada4481 Posts
October 24 2011 18:32 GMT
#2
I never really did. Always last minute'd everything in school. The pressure is always what helps get the work done eventually.
Calendar"Everyone who has accomplished more than you has no life; Everyone who has accomplished less than you is a noob." | Elem: "nagi is actually really smart"
AirbladeOrange
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2573 Posts
October 24 2011 18:32 GMT
#3
I tell myself I'm being a piece of shit and just go take care of what I need to. No tricks, just action.
Deja Thoris
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa646 Posts
October 24 2011 18:32 GMT
#4
I'll tell you tomorrow.
Szubie
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom294 Posts
October 24 2011 18:32 GMT
#5
Don't go home, stay at the library to work. When you get home, then you can relax and do whatever (assuming you finished everything at the library).
IMMvp, Maru
Fallacy
Profile Joined September 2010
United States227 Posts
October 24 2011 18:32 GMT
#6
I found this article helped me out quite a bit:

Procrastination
Stand up for what you believe in even if it means standing alone.
Maxd11
Profile Joined July 2011
United States680 Posts
October 24 2011 18:35 GMT
#7
Just picture your homework is the evil (whatever race your having trouble beating at the moment) and then just "GO EFFING KILL IT!!!" -Day[9]
I looked in the mirror and saw biupilm69t
Nyovne
Profile Joined March 2006
Netherlands19137 Posts
October 24 2011 18:39 GMT
#8
Moved to blogs.
ModeratorFor remember, that in the end, some are born to live, others born to die. I belong to those last, born to burn, born to cry. For I shall remain alone... forsaken.
d00p
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
711 Posts
October 24 2011 18:40 GMT
#9
On October 25 2011 03:32 Szubie wrote:
Don't go home, stay at the library to work. When you get home, then you can relax and do whatever (assuming you finished everything at the library).


This. Ez. And no laptops. A laptop really isn't necessary for studying.
Hadraziel
Profile Joined May 2010
Russian Federation114 Posts
October 24 2011 18:40 GMT
#10
Getting yourself to work is like jumping off a cliff. You need to clear your mind from all thinking, and get to work without your instinct noticing it.
PolskaGora
Profile Joined May 2011
United States547 Posts
October 24 2011 18:41 GMT
#11
You know what they say, hard work may pay off later, but procrastination pays off now!

In all seriousness, though, it's just willpower. I had the same problem in highschool but when I went to college I told myself to get my shit together and I noticed a huge improvement in my overall work habits. Once you get in the habit of not resting until your work is done it gets quite easy actually. Plus it feels amazing when you can finally unwind after busting your ass doing homework and what not.
Tracking treasure down
Seriyvolk
Profile Joined July 2011
37 Posts
October 24 2011 18:46 GMT
#12
On October 25 2011 03:32 Fallacy wrote:
I found this article helped me out quite a bit:

Procrastination

Thanks, that's inspiring.
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
October 24 2011 18:46 GMT
#13
I procrastinate and I'm working on a master's degree.

Procrastinating is how I keep my life from being boring. I handle stuff well in a state of emergency at 4 AM anyway.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
beberly
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States117 Posts
October 24 2011 18:51 GMT
#14
OP, I'm feeling your pain.

I'm in my last year of law school. I've been in school for 20 years straight. That's 80% of my ENTIRE F*CKING LIFE. I'm just...burnt out. I have 2 papers I need to work on, as well as working an externship, going to class, networking, and applying for jobs. And I'm doing about none of that. I just never have the willpower at the end of the day. And it's now starting to negatively affect my mood. When I'm working or in class, I think about the work I've been procrastinating and it depresses me. Then I get home, and instead of actually SOLVING the problem by doing the damn work, I just screw around on the internet or watch TV or work out or do anything other than my work.

We can be procrastination-beating buddies. When you get home tonight, just sit down and DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. I'm going to do it, too. Hopefully 3-hours-from-now-Me has the same amount of resolve as current-Me.
BradwMD
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States43 Posts
October 24 2011 18:53 GMT
#15
I do the same thing, except without the procrastination. How? Well, there isn't always going to be an entertaining stream on, there isn't always a time when I feel like playing starcraft or any other game, so what do I do in my downtime? I work on an assignment.

On the occasion where there are a lot of streams on or I am in the mood to play games, that is where willpower comes in, I just think to myself that if I work on my school stuff now, then I have all the stress-free time in the world afterwards to do whatever I want to. If i do it the other way around, and save the assignment for the last minute, I know that I will have stress, and no one wants a lot of stress.
Mothra
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States1448 Posts
October 24 2011 19:33 GMT
#16
Try and force yourself to do something unrelated, like complete 30 pushups and 10 pullups first thing in the morning. It's easy to complete because it doesn't take much time, but it's still hard to force yourself to do it. After you finish, you'll find that you do have willpower after all. That works for me sometimes anyway.
Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17723 Posts
October 24 2011 20:05 GMT
#17
I'm reading this at work when I'm supposed to be working...
"Expert" mods4ever.com
Xiron
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany1233 Posts
October 24 2011 20:07 GMT
#18
I know how to beat procrastination, and Im going to tell you the only real method that works.. tomorrow..
"The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. " - Charlie Chaplin
domane
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Canada1606 Posts
October 24 2011 20:15 GMT
#19
On October 25 2011 03:40 d00p wrote:
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On October 25 2011 03:32 Szubie wrote:
Don't go home, stay at the library to work. When you get home, then you can relax and do whatever (assuming you finished everything at the library).


This. Ez. And no laptops. A laptop really isn't necessary for studying.
Limit use of the library computer to email and course work. Always work in the quiet study area, other than for group work.
CecilSunkure
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2829 Posts
October 24 2011 20:18 GMT
#20
There was a nice point in my life when I realized that I could do what I want. What I mean is, I could choose whatever choice I wanted, whenever I wanted. It's called self-control. Before this point in my life, I'd often times think about what I'd want to do or wish I were doing, but then do other things anyways.

For me it really was just a matter of self-control. A swim or drown situation.

That epiphany came to me one day when I was doing research for a huge IB essay on Nikola Tesla, and I was reading his biography. He did the same sort of thing and I copied him.
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