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 Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:33 am
So like all students I'm really really good at procrastinating. And I don't even do productive things when I procrastinate. I sit and think about doing work or doing something and then don't actually do it.
And it got me into a really bad mental state right before spring break finally started.
I'm determined to get myself in gear after the holiday, but I wonder if you guys have any advice on how to get motivated? Any things that work for you that I might be able to adapt?
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 1:19 pm
 I feel your pain. This post format is the result of my procrastination and it wasn't even worth it.
So here are a few things to get you motivated.
Slap yourself every time you realize you're not doing what you should be. Make it as hard as you can. Then maybe something in your head will click and you'll become a regular human being.
And if not, at least you won't feel as guilty. Since you already slapped yourself for dissing your work.
G'luck.
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:03 pm
Once you do get started, don't stop! It's easier to keep up your plans than it
is to get back into them. That's why exercise plans are hard for most people, they stop one day..then it turns into two days...then four...then 2 weeks of skipping..
Just make a good habit, and force yourself to keep it, and remind yourself you'll feel better
in the long run for doing so! I need to take my own advice.
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:19 pm
I used to be a bad procrastinator in high school, but it got so bad that I failed half of my courses one semester as a direct result of it. In a way, this failure was a great way to show me that I needed to work harder, and since then, my work ethic has not suffered from procrastination in either school, or my professional career. Of course, if you're in university, finding this out the hard way like I did is basically impossible, lest you have the money to retake a bad semester's worth of classes. Unlike most people who work their asses off in school, I reject the concept of teaching students to be perfect, as s**t happens and people sometimes cannot make deadlines that the schooling system likes to go by. In fact, the most valuable lesson I got from school was not in the sense of academia or anything like that, it was learning how to deal with deadlines in a responsible matter.
I am now a third year university student double majoring in history and geography, and a CAO analyst at a grocery store, and I find that some days when I am faced with a long day of school and work, I do not want to do paperwork, nor reading. This is completely natural; procrastination is unavoidable in that sense, but from experience, a person can totally have room to be lazy some days, so long as progress is done in the long term. When working with essays, I found that it's better to do long term, small amounts of progress, versus short term eight page marathons in a week. Waiting for the professor to cover your topic, or bring up the essay expectations are NOT good excuses to wait to start on your essay by the way!
Usually what I would do is strive for 200 words a week (approximately 30 words a day, 15 minutes tops, or 40 words, 20 minutes/day if you decide to have a two day break from writing) on a large research paper, and by the time the due week arrives, I would only really have to fret about getting it looked at and citations (which are a b***h either way you go about doing it).
tl;dr- It's completely fine to procrastinate, so long as plans and concrete dates are made from the start of the semester on what is going to be done. If you go by these plans, which should be purposely set low to stimulate a sense of possibility, you'll have plenty of time to sit there for most of the semester.
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:25 am
Have a goal. Think clearly about what the ******** it is you want from life, and keep chipping at it.
And subscribe to Lifehacker. Not really about motivation and more relating to productivity, but yeah.
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:50 pm
Don't try to beat procrastination stare It will haunt you for eternity.e_O
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