procrastionating...how to stop the habit.?
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well i think you should start off by asking yourself, is the working environment that you are working in is a efficient and a encouraging environment which will help you get things done fast and efficiently. I overcame my habbit of procrastinating by doing something i needed to do and if i was able to do it without being side tracked, i gave myself a reward (ie 30 minutes of watching tv or going on computer and chatting with friends or even giving yourself a bar of chocolate)
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Good quesiton. I have had somewhat the same problem in the past. What I started doing was making lists of what needed to be done & always made sure that I put free time on the list as well. You need to find a balance & make the most of the free time that you have available.\n\nHere's an example: I listed all of the cleaning chores I needed to accomplish in a month & then worked out how often each needed to be done. When I was finished, I realized that there were really only one or two things each day, so long as I kept to my schedule. I then mapped out time that I could use as free time (which, for me, means without family at home) & worked it into the shcedule. When I hit those times, I just make sure that I do exactly what I want to do & nothing more.\n\nThe funny thing is that making yourself adhere to a schedule of sorts for only a few weeks has some amazing effects...I'm now the type of person who will stop to make sure that there is nothing else that needs to be done before I take my "me" time. Tell you one thing though, if this house is spotless, dinner is cooked & the laundry is done, you'd best consider how dear your life is to you if you ask me to do something else once I've decided to take my hour or two of solitude!\n\nIn the end, you can train yourself to be more productive & to balance free time against what needs to be done. As for real ambition, you might need to consider what goals you have & work toward them slowly. The main trick is accomplishment; if you set goals for yourself, even small ones, & you accomplish them, you will start to make it a habit...accomplishment breeds more accomplishment &, in many ways, ambition & accomplishment are one in the same...\n\nHope this helps!
835193
Instead of fighting with yourself or wasting time online, just get it done and go to bed if there's still time left.  Why isn't it done already?  More procrastination?  The pain you're in now is one of the many rewards of putting things off.  Like the shoe commercial, just do it.
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Procrastinaton can have an additive affect for sure.  Try to break down your tasks into the smallest easiest pieces and promise to do just one of the pieces.  When I get in a procrastination place - I find that making a list of the simple component parts gives me something to do that does not require a lot of thought.  And typically once I've done one of the simple things - the second third and fourth simple things seem to get done too.  Works for me.
959460
don't procrastinate. putting things off until the last minute is always a bad idea!
90741
I love it way too much.  It's causing me to procrastinate something awful!  Instead of answering the questions for my homework, I answer THESE questions!  Silly, I know.  My next question is going to be how do I stop procrastinating so badly!
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stop pissing about on the interent and start revising.\n\nset yourself time schedules to work to.\ne.g. \nstart at 9am to 9.45\nbreak at 9.45 am to 10 am\nstart at 10am to 10.45\n\netc.\n\ntake a 45 minutes lunch 11.45 to 12.30\nstart at 12.30 to 13.15\netc.
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prioritize your tasks. tackle the immediate hard ones first. you will have more satisfaction knowing the hard one had been done. less stress doing the easier tasks. you dont have to finish everything in one sitting though. can you delegate responsibilities? be happy.
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plan ahead. write down the things you have to do for the day. set up time in which you should be able to accomplish that goal. do it everyday, and soon you'll see that being organized will come out automatically
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pro·cras·ti·nate    (pr-krst-nt, pr-) KEY  \n\nVERB: \npro·cras·ti·nat·ed , pro·cras·ti·nat·ing , pro·cras·ti·nates \nVERB: \nintr. \n\nTo put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness. \nVERB: \ntr. \n\nTo postpone or delay needlessly. \n\nProcrastination is the act of procrastinating, putting tasks off to a future, delaying, deferring, postponing, not getting around to tasks.\n\nThere are number of possible cures to procrastination. You can overcome procrastination with various psychological methods. It is also possible to stop procrastination with energy work techniques. Some people succesfully utilize just simple time management techniques to end procrastination in its tracks.\n\nWhichever technique to quit procrastination one will choose, the most important factor for breaking the procrastination habit is persistence. Habits are tough to break, the procrastination habit being one of the toughest. \n\nProcrastinating is a serious problem affecting 25-70% of population. According to the research done by McCown & Roberts, 40% of people have experienced loss due to procrastination and around 25% of people claim their problem to be chronic.\n\nIt is one of the most expensive problems one could ever have. If an average procrastinator would count up the losses from missed opportunities in school, carreer and personal life, when expressed in monetary terms, it would often be an impressive amount of money. Not counting the emotional and psychical losses - often even more depressing.\n\nProcrastination is not laziness. Most people, who were never affected by this problem, will show very little understanding for problems that usual procrastinator is facing every day in real life - which will add even more to her/his problems. Others will attempt to help with well meant time management advices, wondering why the procrastinator is impossible to implement them, thinking she/he must be lazy. Again, that will just make the problem deeper and more depressing.\n\nProcrastination, though not officially classified as such, is a psychological problem that can have roots in (or comes alongside with) several officialy recognized "illnesses" (eg. phobia, depression, low self-esteem). Other causes can range anywhere from bad time management abilities to problems with authorities, self-sabotage, bad decision making or self-motivational issues. \n\nMore info in the links!
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Divide tasks into small, easy to do parts. Also try to ignore the things that disturb you, ie: TV, Computer (if you can help it), iPod, ect.\n\nHere is an example how to divide the tasks into smaller parts. Let's say we have a report due in 1 week. Here is a made-up schedule:\n\nDay 1\n-Find information for 30 minutes\n\nDay 2\n-Find information for 30 minutes\n\nDay 3\n-Write rough draft for 30 minutes\n\nDay 4\n-Finish rough draft\n\nDay 5\n-Write Final Copy for 30 minutes\n\nDay 6\n-Finish final copy\n\nDay 7\n-Relax\n\nBy doing a little work each day, I find it to make things easy in the long run. I think that working for about 30 minutes a day will not be tiring, but you will still get quite a bit done.
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1.  Calm down.\n\n2.  Relax and take deep breaths when you feel stressed. \n\n3.  Get a day planner and use it religiously for the first 6 months.  Schedule everything including taking breaks, exercising, going to the movies, schoolwork, etc.  This method will allow you to see where you procrastinate.\n\n4.  Get a buddy to help you keep to your schedule as much as possible (a reminder buddy - not a brutal beat-me-up-if-I-miss-an-appt buddy).\n\n5.  Talk to your school counselor about your class schedule and get a tutor to help you over the hump until you can develop good learning habits.\n\nGood luck!
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Make sure that you set yourself a schedule and stay with it.  Putting it off, no matter what your schedule is the way towards failure.\n\nGive yourself one or two hour blocks.  Don't overdo it because if you can't meet your schedule you will likely do very little because you will be in failure mode.\n\nStart with smaller increments.  Commit to 20 minutes and promise yourself a reward of 20 minutes doing something you like after you do a good solid 20 minutes.  Don't cheat on yourself.
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I have procrastinated my way through school, university and my job (that is why I am on here). I have only just started understanding why I do it.\n\nThere are many reasons why - fear of failure, fear of doing something difficult, etc. There is only one solution - getting into a habit of starting (not finishing!) at a certain time. Set yourself a target of starting - doing 15 minutes and then you will find that you probably don't want to stop!\n\nDon't overburden yourself. Aim to start, not to get it done. Do 15 minutes NOW. Oh, and get off the internet. It will not help you right now.
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Make a list and prioritize it.  Focus on the things that you really need to get done as deadlines approach.\n\nBut don't forget to schedule a little "me time" too.
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I am a procrastinator and very rarely deal with depression. I have never heard of the two linked before. For me, the best way to deal with procrastinating is to make a priority list and don't stop until the entire list is done.  For example, if I have 10 items on my "to do" list for today and I only get to the first five, the last five become the first five of tomorrow's "to do" list, and so on.  Yes, sometimes I end up with a to do list about 10 pages long, but that is when I buckle down and "git 'er done!"
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Pure motivation....don't focus on the task itself but the finished product.\n\nGood Luck