I like to watch the scene from Glen Garry Ross with Alec Baldwin every time I need to get something done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZg_ALxEz0

That or read up on stuff about forming habits. Then form positive ones.

This technique looks promising. Thanks for the tip.

Priceless. Procrastinating about learning how not to procrastinate!

It's not so much procrastination, it's lack of discipline and laziness. It sounds like you sit on the computer doing your facebook, youtube, etc. and never get up. Before you know it, it's 2 AM and you didn't do any work.

You need to develop a habit of knocking out your work as soon as you get home. Don't go to the computer. Look at the computer as a reward. "Once I get done my school work, I can go look at some boobage on the computer."

Professional help won't do you much help. You just need to get your **** together....on your own.

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Agree, just stop procrastinating. When you procrastinate you are just being a slave to your impulses -- you don't feel like working, so you don't and instead do something you do feel like doing. When you ask for a cure for procrastination you're really seeking a way to feel like doing the boring, miserable chores, and the answer is that if there were a way to want to do them you would never need self-discipline. You might even enjoy them and still not feel like doing them. The big secret is that you don't have to want to act to do it anyway -- acting on impulse only is a child's way of life; a big part of becoming a man is subjugating that to your higher purposes.

Do it because if you don't, you'll spend more hours and days with it hovering over you and feeling like a ****-up than the task itself would actually take. Do it because you said you would and you are a person whose promises mean something. Do it because you feel so much better with it done than undone.

the fact you want to fix this and havent been able to means its likely because of some deeper issues. Basically no one here can figure this out for you. All that "just get your **** together" stuff is nonsense, because youve already tried that and failed.

So basically, go seek out a professional who is actually trained at such matters and can help you

Most procrastination has a root cause behind it, like not feeling good enough to do the task at hand or there is some fear/anxiety about whatever your supposed to be doing. For example I was a huge procrastinator when it came to being around people cuz of my social anxiety and basically got to where I avoided people, called out of work, acted sick during school, ect.



You have to figure out what the root cause of the procrastination is. I'd also recommend getting into mental training like meditation and affirmations, they really help to work on and develop the mind. They also bring forth background processes in the mind that are essentially the equivalent of a virus or spyware in a computer, you can use mental exercises to get rid of these processes.... things like worry, anger, other distracting thought that get in the way or progress.


Learn to train your mind but I'd also say look at yourself from many perspectives if you can and see if you really wanna go into medicine. gl bud

It would be cheaper to just read a few books and do it yourself. Therapists charge out the ass and in my experience the effects are a joke next to learning how to train a mind properly.


In the future psychology and psychiatry is gonna be just some obsolete industry and only applicable in the nut house and for science. People working out the mind just like they do the body shall be the norm before this century is over and there wont be a need for what is essentially an obsolete application to the mind imo.

I went to therapists for years and it was kind of a joke once I learned how to manipulate the mind/ brain which controls thinking, emotions, perspective and behavior. Once the majority of humans get a hold of these exercises and see what a powerful tool it is to change their lives just like working out the body and eating right we wont see what is what I call the for profit human being.


Essentially what we call white trash and in the entire human race will be able to life themselves u from the **** they they are thru developing themselves......if they endeavor to do so.

I don't have ADHD, it's just a pattern which is hard to break.

This doesn't really work for me. The first few times I tried this were OK, but it got worse soon after. Even w/o electronic devices (mobile, tv...) around me I still find it hard to just do it. But I'm going to try this again, it will definetly be better than studying at home.

Looks good, def going to use that one. Focussing on a task for about 20 minutes seems doable (it really makes me sad when I realise this is my current situation)

tbh, going to a professional was kind of my last resort... If things won't work out on my own I def will seek counseling. But I'll first try to manage with the things that are mentioned here. I just want to know if I can't fix this without professional help. Call me ignorant, call me a stupid motherf*****, I'll try this first. Thanks for your support though, really appreciate it. It's great to hear from some who 'recovered' from this, gives me a mental boost!

Good idea. I'm short on cash, so succeeding will then become my only option. My parents are not the kind of types that will cut me off financially, but I'm sure I can make some very costly bets with a couple of uncles/nephews.

I don't really agree with you... The point is that this procrastination, or in your words, "laziness and lack of discipline", only bothers me in a specific area of my life (because it is so bad at the moment it is effecting other areas as well, but thats a different story for now). I'm not a procrasternater in physical health (diet, hygiene, exercising), in social area (keeping in touch with people, maintaining relations), etc. So I'm not lazy in general. Even if I were, it couldn't "just get my **** together", because I'm not able to break a routine that easy that I already have for like 8 yrs.



That's a good one, finding the root of the problem. It's not going to be easy, but probably necessary. As it comes to mental training, do you think I need a professional to help me with that or is a book for mental training also good? I'm reading different opinions about professional guidance, so I'm curious what you're thinking about this. Sucks to hear about you're social anxiety though :/ . Have you been able to (fully) recover?





I just want to thank everybody for posting opinions/links/videos. It gives me good ideas, but maybe even more important: I get more and more motivated to quit this procrastinating forever. Also, the ones sharing their stories remind me of the fact I'm not the only one who has this problem. I'll watch the video and read all the links in the weekend, when I have more time.

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Do your studying in a dedicated place that isn't where you do all your other things (the place itself really doesn't matter), cut yourself off from the internet while your are in your studying area. It is amazing how much quicker i get done with **** i dont want to do without internet available.

Hah, yeah, agreed.

Installed StayFocusd for this reason. 2:58 left

id rather pay someone whos already read all the books and helped hundreds of people and knows what to do and can immediately start helping me, instead of wasting a **** ton of time searching for the correct path to fixing my issues, especially when my issue is wasting my time and ive already got a heap load of other **** on my plate (school).

Good point

I assume you are referring to Scientology here, but I've read all of their work (including the "secret" stuff) and didn't find it to be particularly helpful for me.

Probably already said, but you should wait til tomorrow to address this issue.

I got side tracked for a while but I didn't forget about giving you some solid advice. I've got some stuff to do but I'll try to get back to this thread as soon as I can.

Since this is your third anouncement, I expect something really good :P

once you start reading reddit and 4chan you know its bad.

There's a great book about procrastination called The War of Art.

100 pages later (a quick read) I learned that I need to sack-up, not be a pussy, and just handle my ****. Simple as that.

Good book though.

Welcome to college.

90% of students (and professors) are the exact same way.

I think that by studying in the library instead of at home I became motivated to get my work done, so that I could get home. Think about it as setting goals and rewarding oneself for attaining them. Everyone is motivated to do something, but that something may not always be the most productive. I set daily mini-goals for myself to get done before I come home and slob around on the couch.