This semester I've been procrastinating things past the due date, or just plain not doing them. I'm starting to worry a bit because if I don't do well on the finals I will definitely fail. I just lost whatever motivation I had left, and am pretty lazy.

How the fuck is that the best way to do it, crumply? That doesn't teach yourself anything, well, not much.

It sounds strange but by saying you are gonna do something out loud it puts yourself into the mindset for getting started, and getting started is always the worst part. It's not a matter of being taught anything at all, its a matter of being able to get your mind to commit to a task and it is a pretty good way of doing so.

So yeah, that's how the fuck 

Kiwi aggression first thing in the morning, nothin like it.

I finally found out my problem after all this time I just thought I was lazy... Yeah procrastination sucks but if I think about doing something important a lot then I eventually go into panic andstart doing it and most of the time I get it done, this includes school and homework only though I have made lots of game projects but never completed making a game.

My younger brother has it the worst, he likes to pay computer games and forgets about his homework, his mind is always on computer games...I wish I could help him, but I guess he gets that from me, I used to be like that quite a lot but I don't play games as much as I used to.

I'm in the same boat as Aztec I procrastinate everything, but sometimes I panic so much I eventually go force myself to do what I have to do anyway.

Heres a useful link I have found: http://www.getmoredone.com/tips2.html

I used to be a procrastinator until I learned a valuable lesson while on March break in the 6th grade. You see, march break was two weeks long back then, and we were given this huge pile of homework to do while on vacation. Of course, I didn't start it until the last sunday night. Everything hit me like a tonne of bricks - it was one of the most devastating feelings I've ever felt. I ended up finishing the work with the help of my older sister, but I was so tired by the end of it that I missed going to school the next day.

Anyway, ever since then I've stopped procrastinating. All it takes is one really negative experience to shock you back into not-procrastinating ever again. I really needed to go through that traumatizing event to learn the pitfalls of procrastination.

Really, do assignments as soon as you get them. Put off fun activities until you finish the ones you need to do. I've found that if I do put something off it'll be on my mind the whole time and as a result will diminish any fun I choose to have instead. Once something's complete I can fully devote my mind to other matters, and it's so much better as a result. Having experienced both sides of the spectrum I still don't know why anyone would willingly choose to procrastinate. Getting things done way in advance is SO MUCH more better and relaxing.

I'd say the easiest way to overcome procrastination is to write yourself a checkbox schedule of things to do. Be specific though. Don't say "study biology", but rather "study chapter 8 in the biology textbook". Divide big tasks into chunks that you can do each day.

I was going to give you a tip but I'll do it later.

Basically you are all irresponsible and need to stop doing this right now or you will never get anything done.
Just decide OK I WILL NOT PROCRAST and stick with it.  If i t is important enough to you to change, you will change.

I can be pretty bad about this sort of thing myself. I have to make myself focus or I'll never get shit done. I may have ADD but that is NO EXCUSE not to get my damn work done.

all you need is self control. Just tell yourself you need to get this done or I am gonna feel shitty about it. If you don't end up doing, it's your own fault and you'll never change because you're a loser

If I can live without doing it I won't.

I am procrastinating right now! I should be working on troubadours stuff but instead I'm skulking around on GW what am I doing ?!?

It's called discipline man. I had the same problem and I fucked up big time.  The best thing to do is to just get away from distractions and do what you gotta do.  The library was a good place for me to take care of school work.  You're enrolled to get an education and not go out with the bros every night.  If you do go out every night you won't get obligations taken care of and then you might possibly get kicked out of school.  It's simple really.  You know what you have to do and you know what you don't want to do, so stop fucking around.

I woke up this morning and it's like I'm in a different mind set, I wanted everything to change last night and to start getting my shit together. But I woke up and I don't care. Like I have a couple of hours before school to do something, but I just can't. It's like morning is when I procrastinate the most and then it spreads throughout the day until some nights when I realize I wasted the day.

Changing your environment is the best way to get things done.  You are sitting at your computer at home procrastinating right?  Try going to the library or a coffee shop to do your homework instead.  If you have a laptop, go somewhere with no internet connection or use a computer without bookmarks and IM clients and all that (this is why I recommend the library).  I always go to the university to practice keyboard for example, because even though I own several keyboards I get distracted if I practice at home. 

Procrastination is a habit; habits are best broken by changing your routine.  It doesn't take long to get out of the habit, especially when you realize how much more fun video games etc are if you get your shit done first.

Changing your environment is the best way to get things done.  You are sitting at your computer at home procrastinating right?  Try going to the library or a coffee shop to do your homework instead.  If you have a laptop, go somewhere with no internet connection or use a computer without bookmarks and IM clients and all that (this is why I recommend the library).  I always go to the university to practice keyboard for example, because even though I own several keyboards I get distracted if I practice at home. 

Procrastination is a habit; habits are best broken by changing your routine.  It doesn't take long to get out of the habit, especially when you realize how much more fun video games etc are if you get your shit done first.

One of my teachers used to suggest altering your environment slightly when you had to get stuff done. His example was placing a ceramic frog on his desk. "THIS FROG MEANS BUSINESS GUYS OK?"

I thought he was joking around but out of curiosity I tried it and it worked.

I do it all the time. I'd think "Oh i'll play this game, i've been looking forward to it." and just don't do it because I'm not in the mood. Stupid shit like that. When things for school etc. used to be due I would tell myself to NOT put it off, but always ended up doing so. Sometimes putting it off for awhile made me feel bad, so I would actually do it for that reason.

Now it's more like "fyuck i want to get this done" because I can't go the day knowing I have something to do later, which I can have done now, and cannot enjoy the day beause of it. Kinda like back in the day not enjoying Sundays because I knew school was the next day and the weekend was over.

Anyway, ever since then I've stopped procrastinating. All it takes is one really negative experience to shock you back into not-procrastinating ever again. I really needed to go through that traumatizing event to learn the pitfalls of procrastination.

I've had way more than one such experience, and definitely in more important stuff than 6th grade, and it sure as hell hasn't done much for me.

Also I definitely agree with maladroithim, I can generally be much more productive by working somewhere different than the usual place (I don't know why I don't do this more often)

Changing your environment is the best way to get things done.  You are sitting at your computer at home procrastinating right?  Try going to the library or a coffee shop to do your homework instead.  If you have a laptop, go somewhere with no internet connection or use a computer without bookmarks and IM clients and all that (this is why I recommend the library).  I always go to the university to practice keyboard for example, because even though I own several keyboards I get distracted if I practice at home. 

Procrastination is a habit; habits are best broken by changing your routine.  It doesn't take long to get out of the habit, especially when you realize how much more fun video games etc are if you get your shit done first.

I'll probably have to that tonight to finish some work for tomorrow morning.

Also I definitely agree with maladroithim, I can generally be much more productive by working somewhere different than the usual place (I don't know why I don't do this more often)

Yeah like once I needed to write an essay super fast so I wrote it while taking a crap.  It was seriously the best writing I have ever produced in my life.

Coffee shops are good too because they are usually cozy and since they are in the public you feel like you are going out even though you are alone working on something.