Ok, I've been putting this off for a while. But I'm a big procrastinator and I'm sick of it. I put everything off till the last minute. Every new semester of school I always get pumped up and want to get everything I can do out of the way, but I always end up slacking off. Paper due in 2 months? I'll do it the week before, I mean the weekend before, I mean the day before. The worst part is that this doesn't just apply to school. This applies to all aspects of my life. At work I put everything off till the last day (mind you I can easily put it off till the last day, but still). I even procrastinate watching movies and shows I want to watch that I have on my comp. Sometimes I get pumped up and want to actually accomplish something! And sometimes when I'm pumped up I set very achievable goals for the what I'm going to do the next day, but rarely complete them. Other times I'd wake up the next day and completely forget about how much I wanted to actually do something.

This is making me miserable and I can't seem to find a way out of this loop. I want to accomplish things and not go to bed everyday thinking about how I wasted the entire day. I wish I could find out what was making me randomly inspired/pumped up and bottle it. help?

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Best way is to tell someone that you're gonna do something on a given day, that way when you sack it off you look like a wanker cause you went against your word.

I have also have a big problem with procrastination. The only way I found to fight against it, at least as far as things like papers/assignments/projects were concerned, was to do them the day they were assigned. If I couldn't get it done in that first weekend after it was assigned, chances were I'd fuck off and end up either half-assing it at the eleventh hour or not doing it at all.

As for procrastination in your personal life...I think it takes something big to shake you out of that. It is just too easy to get complacent about there always being time later...until the bottom falls out. My recent wakeup call was when someone I had been really into for a long time got married. I'd known her for twelve years and never tried going out with her - I always figured, eh - I'm in a relationship right now, or eh - there will be time later. If someone had walked up, smacked me in the head, and said "Hey, dumbfuck, what if there is no tomorrow?" I might be a happier person right now.

Yeah, I wouldn't care that much if this was just me putting off a paper, but it affecting my personal life like this makes me realize I have to make some kind of big total transformation change. But I don't see how I could change anything. It's like I'm stuck in my "comfort zone" and don't want to do anything that affects that. I've tried setting goals and stuff but to no avail. I'm an Art Interest, so this is really going to fuck me up when I have a ton of art projects to do. Right now I've done like 4 projects this semester and waited till the last day to do them. I was actually getting my shit together and I worked many, many hours on them. But after my last project I just kind of gave up and went back into my comfort zone.

Maybe I could set an alarm at a certain time each day to turn off everything and work on something (anything!) for an hour or two. Then slowly work my way towards real change.

Yeah that is an amazing quote Omcifer.

I'm such a fucking procrastinator. I think many people are to a pretty big extent. It develops when you're young. My younger brother is so lucky... he always comes home and does his homework right away. That shit is going to carry with him the rest of his life and he's going to go places.

Yeah that is an amazing quote Omcifer.

I'm such a fucking procrastinator. I think many people are to a pretty big extent. It develops when you're young. My younger brother is so lucky... he always comes home and does his homework right away. That shit is going to carry with him the rest of his life and he's going to go places.

Yeah that's what it was like with my older brother. God this is depressing.

Just make sure the alarm doesn't have a snooze feature. On nights I have band practice, I set my cellphone alarm for a time which would allow me to do my exercise routine, wash my dirty dishes so I don't have to touch them at 2 in the morning afterwards, take a shower, and have a nice leisurely drive to practice.

Then I snooze button my way through an hour and a half and end up flooring it down the interstate only to show up twenty minutes late.

I think you guys need to stop GWing as soon as you get home from work/school. That's a nasty habit, too.

The internet in general is a bastion of procrastination.

Well it doesn't seem to really matter what is going on around me. I loaned my computer to a friend of mine for two weeks. I had no IM, myspace, email, or anything else to waste time on. I expected I'd get a whole bunch of things done around the house...nada. I wrote one song and slept a lot.

I'm pretty good at getting my shit done ahead of time and I find it very easy to prioritize things in my life so I can achieve my goals!

... heh... looks like some folks got it...


... and some folks don't(you)!

i am pretty bad at getting shit done. this semester went down a bit because of that. not gonna happen next time though. its just i thought it was gonna be a lil game like every other semester

for example. i am gonna finish tomorrow my physics homework for all next week. its not like i remember/go to the lectures anyway and dont learn the whole material in one day............ notice i already claimed i am gonna do it so if i dont i am a lying wanker.

I'm really bad about it too but I find it alot easier to get shit done and actually feel MOTIVATED when I'm living alone or on my own. Like I need to start working out more often and learn guitar but I just can't do it when I'm at home which is why I probably need to move out or leave soon.