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Procrastination/Not Enough Time(?)

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MtlGuitarist97
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States1539 Posts
December 04 2013 21:55 GMT
#1
Just going to be a short blog. I wish that I had more time to do all of the stuff that I really enjoy doing. Whenever I have time, I'd love to spend it playing guitar, stretching, lifting weights, reading or playing a game that I haven't gotten around to, but I feel like I never have enough time in the day/week/month/year. Each year I set lofty goals for myself and convince myself that I'll accomplish them. I approach my goals most years (or do better than I did before and at least get myself in the right mindset to improve) but I've just been so busy the last month and a half I just have no time for anything but my school work.

I guess this is partly my own fault because I let it build up, but it's so hard to know what's considered "worthwhile" or "meaningful." I enjoy(ed) playing SC2, browsing TL, watching streams every so often, or BSing with my friends on skype, but it feels like there is simply not enough time in the day. My schedule is restrictive and tiring, and it just becomes difficult to find times for the stuff I love.

How do you guys make time for yourselves to relax/enjoy yourself (talking mostly to those of you in high school/college/graduate school)? Certain days there's just nothing I can do, and I kind of have to accept that (on Mondays I don't get home until 6:30 and on Thursdays I don't get home until 6:15 or so), but on most days I want to just make time to do what I enjoy and not get sidetracked by distractions.

hp.Shell
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2527 Posts
December 04 2013 22:02 GMT
#2
Use the "something's gotta give" rule. Cut out bs stuff you don't enjoy doing.
Stop consuming movies, fiction, and similar entertainment to "kill time."
If you're doing music research or something, then by all means watch the movies. If you're trying to become a better writer, read. But do it to improve, not just to kill time.

This is a very hard thing to do, but once you stop doing things you don't need / want to do, all of a sudden there's all this time. GL!
Please PM me with any songs you like that you think I haven't heard before!
Darkren
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada1841 Posts
December 04 2013 22:05 GMT
#3
It gets worse the more you grow up until you reach 69 and then only look forward to bingo and sexual intercourse with 20 years old

Procrastination rules tho even if you know you are doing something 100% useless it feel like such a good way to spend time

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Like responding to your thread while i should be studying for finals, time well spent
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Pontius Pirate
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
United States1557 Posts
December 05 2013 01:18 GMT
#4
Don't allow yourself to become bored. That's when you start doing things just to take up your time, rather than to improve yourself. Set specific, modest goals of weightlifting that doesn't allow it to lose its fun for you and make you too tired to do other things in your packed schedule. Relegate reading to the times in your day when you're attempting to multitask. This will make you think that reading your book is something that you're trying to get to, and you'll be constantly anticipating what happens in the story next. Consider talking with friends on skype on a more casual off-and-on level, while you accomplish tasks around the house or do homework. It can make schoolwork surprisingly more tolerable to just have another friend to chat with a bit (voice only. It takes too much concentration to be chatting via typing) while you do the things you need to do. Set a specific time of day to watch SC2, and watch it from VODs, so you don't have to conform your own schedule to that of players' streaming schedules. Use craigslist to buy a new guitar or to trade an old one for a new one. Nothing motivates me to play more guitar that having a new one to fool around on.
"I had to close the door so my parents wouldn't judge me." - ZombieGrub during the ShitfaceTradeTV stream
Chocolate
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2350 Posts
December 05 2013 02:01 GMT
#5
I find it easier to do things in the order you want to do them: start with things that you like, and then keep doing stuff until you do the things you need to do but don't enjoy. For example, after classes you may want to come home and read in your spare time or work out. Then, if there is something you need to turn in or read for a class beginning at 9 AM or so, get up at around 6 AM to finish it, or stay up late the night previously.

This may not work if you are the type of person who actually sometimes does not do assignments, but if you are someone with a procrastination problem that still gets stuff done at the last minute it can be a decent way to spend time. I know for me whenever I sit down to work on physics problems due in >12 hours I just set them in front of me and end up browsing the internet, staying up until 2 AM telling myself that I will do them, and then doing them at lunch the following day (30 minutes before they are due). It's more productive all around to actually reocgnize that you are going to do them at the last minute and instead do something besides read the internet in the meanwhile. But again, you have to actually want to do the work to begin with. Not the best way to budget time by an objective means but a realistic one for a chronic procrastinator.
Fumanchu
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Canada669 Posts
December 05 2013 02:39 GMT
#6
Just sleep less.
Easy doesnt fit into grownup life.
MadProbe
Profile Joined February 2012
United States269 Posts
December 05 2013 03:01 GMT
#7
On December 05 2013 07:02 hp.Shell wrote:
Use the "something's gotta give" rule. Cut out bs stuff you don't enjoy doing.
Stop consuming movies, fiction, and similar entertainment to "kill time."
If you're doing music research or something, then by all means watch the movies. If you're trying to become a better writer, read. But do it to improve, not just to kill time.

This is a very hard thing to do, but once you stop doing things you don't need / want to do, all of a sudden there's all this time. GL!


Yes. There's always more stuff you want to do than you could possibly have time for. So figure out exactly what you want most and cut everything else out.
Cyx.
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada806 Posts
December 05 2013 03:58 GMT
#8
On December 05 2013 07:05 Darkren wrote:
It gets worse the more you grow up until you reach 69 and then only look forward to bingo and sexual intercourse with 20 years old

Procrastination rules tho even if you know you are doing something 100% useless it feel like such a good way to spend time

+ Show Spoiler +
Like responding to your thread while i should be studying for finals, time well spent


Well fuck. Back to studying then I guess, this made me feel bad about myself
MtlGuitarist97
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States1539 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-05 11:27:39
December 05 2013 11:21 GMT
#9
On December 05 2013 11:01 Chocolate wrote:
I find it easier to do things in the order you want to do them: start with things that you like, and then keep doing stuff until you do the things you need to do but don't enjoy. For example, after classes you may want to come home and read in your spare time or work out. Then, if there is something you need to turn in or read for a class beginning at 9 AM or so, get up at around 6 AM to finish it, or stay up late the night previously.

This may not work if you are the type of person who actually sometimes does not do assignments, but if you are someone with a procrastination problem that still gets stuff done at the last minute it can be a decent way to spend time. I know for me whenever I sit down to work on physics problems due in >12 hours I just set them in front of me and end up browsing the internet, staying up until 2 AM telling myself that I will do them, and then doing them at lunch the following day (30 minutes before they are due). It's more productive all around to actually reocgnize that you are going to do them at the last minute and instead do something besides read the internet in the meanwhile. But again, you have to actually want to do the work to begin with. Not the best way to budget time by an objective means but a realistic one for a chronic procrastinator.

I'm already getting up earlier than 6:00 to begin with (I'm in high school and I shower in the morning). The days that I have extra homework to do, I end up getting up at 5 or even earlier. For instance this morning I'm working on an art project I spent 3 hours on yesterday and didn't finish (and am almost done with after 4 and a half hours of working on it in total). T_T

That's the main issue with my procrastination. I spend almost all my time at school, at least for 5 days out of the week. I come home after having clubs, meetings, extra help, or makeups from any time ranging from 3:20-3:45 all the way to 6:30 or 6:45 some days. I have 12 hour days sometimes with no time to do anything other than change out of my dress clothes (I go to a private school) eat a snack/lunch, go to the bathroom, and get a glass of water (I'm not allowed to do either of these during school for some ridiculous reason). It's just hard to find the energy/motivation to actually do the work I have when I get home that late. I'll try the tip about making set times to do stuff though. That seems like it could help a lot.
OpfOpf
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany5 Posts
December 05 2013 12:10 GMT
#10
On December 05 2013 12:01 MadProbe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 05 2013 07:02 hp.Shell wrote:
Use the "something's gotta give" rule. Cut out bs stuff you don't enjoy doing.
Stop consuming movies, fiction, and similar entertainment to "kill time."
If you're doing music research or something, then by all means watch the movies. If you're trying to become a better writer, read. But do it to improve, not just to kill time.

This is a very hard thing to do, but once you stop doing things you don't need / want to do, all of a sudden there's all this time. GL!


Yes. There's always more stuff you want to do than you could possibly have time for. So figure out exactly what you want most and cut everything else out.


Yeah, but what do you do if you just cannot decide what's the most important to you?

I also try to cut out most of the "killing time" stuff, but I usually fail at it. The only thing that helps me if I can get a quite strict schedule established and stick to it. But life kills those schedules way to often

The other thing that seems to help from time to time is if you just pick sth. you wanna do and get sth. that keeps you connected with it. Either somebody that does the same thing (maybe even a rival ) or apply for some tourneys. Although this is hard to do when it comes to stuff as writing.

And keep trying. Sometimes it takes some attempts until you finally manage to reach your goals.
There no sense in anything at all
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