Tips to stop Procrastinating..

[Tom]

Has anyone got any tips to stop procrastinating as I keep finding myself getting distracted, mainly by GTP or Youtube and I have some really important ICT coursework that needs to be handed in by next week otherwise I fail the unit. Help would be appreciated. 👍

 

[shmogt]

Just man up and do the work. You could get up in the morning and instantly get your work out on your desk than go eat and watch stuff on the comp. When your done breakfast your work is gonna be right in front of your eyes forcing you to do it.

 

[Tom]

Just man up and do the work. You could get up in the morning and instantly get your work out on your desk than go eat and watch stuff on the comp. When your done breakfast your work is gonna be right in front of your eyes forcing you to do it.

Problem is, it's 3AM in the UK now, and I'm still not asleep. Once again, on GTP. Even though I have set my alarm for 10.30AM, I doubt I'll be up..

 

[Techy]

Usually, reiterating the consequences constantly would encourage you to do the work.

 

[terminator363]

I have problems skipping my work that I need to do, plan a rough time to do it, DO IT, go back to GTP / Youtube, return working and wash, rinse, repeat, think of it as a cycle: work, play, work, play, that's what I do and it works for me.

 

[akuyuku]

I'm taking AP Psychology (which in no way qualifies me whatsoever, haha) and I remember learning that we most often put things off because we have trouble making ourselves understand the consequences (or something like that) or if we do, we tend to run away from actually making a decision. I'd just grab a coffee, man up, get into the mindset of working, and do it (easier said than done, right? ).

Or if you want to procrastinate more, you can read an article on procrastination.

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/10/27/procrastination/

(As I'm typing this, I'm procrastinating on studying for my finals.)

 

[shmogt]

Problem is, it's 3AM in the UK now, and I'm still not asleep. Once again, on GTP. Even though I have set my alarm for 10.30AM, I doubt I'll be up..

Who cares than just fail or do horrible. You already know what will happen if you don't do it so it's not that important to you.

 

[Wyvern89]

The key is to know where your priorities lie. GTP and Youtube is not going anywhere. Do your studies now and have fun later. To simple.

 

[Azuremen]

I'll give some real answers, as a person who has had a lot of issues in school because of procrastinating.

Schedule things - having hours in which you should start working on XYZ helps a lot. And don't waver on it. Like, I'll set it up so at 6PM I'll put in 2 hours on a project.

Start on things early. I know that sounds counter intuitive to the problem, but what I mean is just open up the book, look at a few problems, maybe work one, and just see how you feel about it. Often, my biggest issue is just putting things off because I know it won't take that long, so I rationalize it as okay to delay it. But I've found if I just start working on it, I often don't mind actually doing a lot of the work.

Related to what I said above, make sure you keep the work, books, etc visible. I found just leaving code open on another monitor would result in me poking at it while wasting time, loading pages, and so on. Which would often result in a large part of it getting done slowly over the course of a week. And that feels a lot better than rushing it all a few hours before it has to be submitted.

Finally, stop making excuses. And I don't just mean to other people, but to yourself as well.

 

[homeforsummer]

I'll give you some tips later.

 

[Max_DC]

Don't do your work at home, but at "work" : in your school / college / university : Take your books and your laptop and take a seat in your library. And then do your work. It's as simple as that. If you get distracted easily add earplugs and try to find a frontseat without too many people passing.

That strategy helped me getting through medschool.
Since everybody in a library is there for work it creates a kind of work-atmosphere so to speak.

It's not for everybody but it can make your life so much easier, so you should give it a try.

 

[Lizard]

I am bad for this and I have tried most ways listed.

I have done an A level history essay at 9pm or sometimes if its short I do the homework in the half hour between my bus arriving and my lesson But I get through (I am lucky)
One thing I find helps me though is at college you don't do as much time studying. I get Wednesdays with no lessons so therefore do homework then.

 

[Slick Rick]

Id say get out of your current environment. At home no matter how much work I have to do I ALWAYS get distracted and my productivity is virtually 0. As soon as I get out of the house and go to a work environment like the uni library I can work continuously for hours without distraction! Weird :s

 

[Antonisbob]

I think I need some times myself..

 

[ParkourVeyron]

Use GTP/YouTube as a reward for yourself, say "I'll do blah, blah and blah and then I'll give myself XXX minutes on GTP/YouTube." But you have to resist the urge, so just pretend like you're banned or your internet is down. It's an odd way to do things, but when you look at it as a reward you'll work harder and faster to get what you need to done, and if you get that extra little boost and you get it all done faster than you were expecting, you just have more time to do whatever you want to.

 

[NissanSkylineN1]

My bro always says:
"If you leave it 'till last minute, it only takes a minute to do it!"

 

[Lizard]

Also try taking a break half way through.

Last essay I did for homework I stopped halfway through for a game on gt5 then finished it.

 

[dhandeh]

Explain to a moderator the situation, and get them to ban your account for a week.

 

[HumanDestroyah]

Explain to a moderator the situation, and get them to ban your account for a week.

Just beat me to that. 👍
Go somewhere else to study, without wi-fi. Youtube, GTP...etc will still be there after your due date for your assignment. Go back to it when you're done with your work as a reward.

 

[killer tiller]

It's quite simple really, get off the computer and study or fail miserably and flip burgers for the rest of your life. It's your life and your call so do as you please

 

[Dragonistic]

I understand the problem as I to am plagued by it but I've got my cure now. I was always aware of the consequences, though I would avoid them it was always a situation where I would just do things in time to still do well rather than do it in advance and achieve the same results in a much less stressful way. It's an odd problem because you think to yourself you know you need to do it but the simple fact of the matter is the thought of doing it is not a pleasant one and at the time it needs to be done there's no real motivation to do it until you absolutely have to. In other words the consequences are often so far in the future they don't have their full effect until it's to late.

Cure? Work with a friend, even if not on the same piece of work get in to a working environment where you can keep tabs on each other and encourage each other to work. Dangers lie if you try to distract each other, but make sure you both set out with the same goal to do X amount of work in your session and neither of you leave until the target is met by both of you. For that reason you both want to finish in time as to not hold the other up, and you don't want them to take an age so you encourage each other.

 

[Hollow]

I'll give you some tips later.

 

[jagdrag77]

First off, drink a Red Bull. That alone will give you the energy to get up, turn off the computer and go get some glory filled sunshine

 

[Starfirebird]

I have a tip.It's the rubberband trick.

Take a thick rubberband and put it on your wrist,everytime you want to get on youtube or GTPlanet pull it back as far as it goes and let go. 👍

 

[Milldrum]

Has anyone got any tips to stop procrastinating as I keep finding myself getting distracted, mainly by GTP or Youtube and I have some really important ICT coursework that needs to be handed in by next week otherwise I fail the unit. Help would be appreciated. 👍

Hire a GTPlanet stalker. They could follow your posts and remind/annoy you until your work is done.

 

[jagdrag77]

I have a tip.It's the rubberband trick.

Take a thick rubberband and put it on your wrist,everytime you want to get on youtube or GTPlanet pull it back as far as it goes and let go. 👍

I used to do this in school a lot to keep me focused. This one for sure too 👍

 

[Ellis]

put a timer on your ps3 and order your mum or dad to turn off the internet.

Buttttttt the moderator idea is actually very good 👍 do that

 

[mamrhein]

Become Amish, you get everything done really quick because there is nothing else to do

 

[shmogt]

Here is what you do. Have fun for the whole week, but keep track of what needs to be done. Than on Sunday wake up, shower, eat, everything to get ready to start work. Than sit down at your desk with all the books open and place a small mound of cocaine beside it. Every time you feel like not working or are tired do a little more of it until either the homework or cocaine is done. Repeat process for the following weeks and prepare for 90% average overall and free tuition to Harvard.

 

[Daniel]