I procrastinate a lot and need some help with motivation. any ideas?
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Set small short-term goals (make sure they are achievable), and have set rewards for when you achieve your goals. If your goals are weight- or fitness-related, try having a look at sparkpeople.com. They have a points system, which is doing remarkably well keeping me in line.
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As for me, I'm procrastinating.  I have lots of difficult things going on in my life right now, so I'm avoiding them by coming on here.  Right now my pseudo goal is getting to 1000 points (level 3).  I've told myself that when I get 1000 points, I'll go do one of the more trying things on my plate.  I'll be at 988 after this question.  These are the strange games procrastinators play.\n\nI have accomplished several other tasks today by playing these silly games.  I am sure there are many fellow procrastinators with me.  Others may just be home from work feeling a little sick, but not too sick for this.  Others may be what we used to call losers before we became more enlightened.  Uh-oh, I don't want to think too much about the difference between a procrastinator and a loser!\n\nBasically that's who's on here! LOL!  (That's more loser talk!)  My other form of procrastination is Yahoo Games.
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You do realize that you are now procrastinating? Just get up! Try doing things you have always wanted to do, put yourself infront of people you like.
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I suggest a schedule of your time.  Allocate times for exercise and don’t let yourself do anything other than that.  I know how it feels to have no motivation and feel like you’ll never get around to exercising.  But I think if you allocate even a really small amount of time and only get a little exercise done, it is more than nothing.  It will make you feel better about yourself, what you can achieve, and you can build on it.  I don’t think you are lazy.  Maybe you could let a close friend know that you need their help to keep you to your schedule, because it’s tough to do it on your own when you have little motivation.
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What interests and excites you?  It's much harder to be motivated if you don't find joy in what you are doing.  Make sure you take at least one "fun" course.  Maybe it has nothing to do with your major and isn't a required course, but it will be one you *want* to go to.  And put it between a few classes you aren't as interested in so you'll want to make it to school just for that class.\n\nGive yourself a little structure.  Set small goals you have to complete each day.  Maybe the goal is studying for 20 minutes before you have dinner.  Mark your success off in some way so that you can look back and see that you are accomplishing things.\n\nEnlist the support of friends.  Join study groups.  Make peer pressure work for you...pressuring you to do the things you are having trouble motivating yourself to do.
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Think of what your personally like. I LOVE hearts.\nSo mine could be Hart-Os or HEARTloops\nYou can be creative with teh name and with teh slogan make it reflect your personality.\nIf your teacher sees thsi effort you are more likely to get a higher grade as well.\nAnd yes, as a procrastinator myself I can tell you. Try to get it done as early as possible beacuse it is so muh easier.\n\nGood luck!
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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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perhaps refreshen your study room, brighten it up with bright paint, clear out the debris, open the windows, let in fresh air, take a quick shower, set yourself a break time before you get stressed, have a buddy to call you for 'keeping on track'...reward yourself, listen to positive motivation tapes in free time, take up a a new sport for boosting energy,...and talk things out with a counsellor perhaps...might be something there troubling you, choose uplifting music in the background and even splash some Bach flower remedies and aromas around, to clear the head and to revitalize you.  don't get down about things, you'r doing a great job....and hey!! its okay to work with a buddy too....find more buddies and have a different one each night...that makes each one, one a week, and is not tying them down monotonously.
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Personally, I find it very entertaining to answer questions on Yahoo! Answers. If you are looking to do something more active, this could be a good time to organize your room and go through your wardrobe and get rid of clothes you don't wear anymore (donate them to a charitable organization, so they will help someone else). Or you could see if anyone in your family could use some help on a project. The best remedy I have ever found for boredom is to do things that make something better or help other people.
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go for walk, get some fresh air, think about what you wanna write....\n\nyou might wanna skim your research and that'll help you in writing it.\n\nyou just sound like you need motivation....you must be passtionate about your thesis...that should be motivating in itself.\n\nbreak up your entire thesis in smaller segments, you'll get things accomplished then.
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Well I am not exactly the best one to answer this one, because trust me I got my final exams from the 18th of this month and here I am answering questions on preventing procrastinating. LOL!! But here's my advice. Go ahead, select someone else !\nTake the task, break it out in small parts and allocate specific times for that. Allow times for your meals and some kind of entertainment. Once that is done, be very particular to follow that rigorously. I mean when u allocate 10 mins for music, stop it after 10 mins dun go beyond that. I know it is difficult and we lose track of time when we love something. But atleast for the time period u have to follow it. There is no-one or one thing which can motivate urself, but urself. You have maintain the balance. Its very important. \nBest of luck to you, and i expect best of luck from you to me as well.\nLOL !!
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sometimes we don't feel motivated but later we regret it. forget about motivation. read the text and underline only the important things. then read it again but just the underlined bits. don't underline 2 much. then close the book and do something else for 10-15 min. read the underlined again. try to review in your head the whole thing. reconstruct the whole matter in your head. you can also speak it out loud if you wish. look for more information on the same subject or on parts of it which are not completely clear on the net or elsewhere. read the underlined again.
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keep a timetable ...study for some time and then take a break..keep goals...if you achieve it ...reward yourself...keep realistic goals...
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Do a little bit each day instead of saving it all for the end.  Try to set a goal and stick to it. But you still need the will power to keep from blowing it off.
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(of course it's not "today")\n\nHow about:  Get up off your butt, else it will get BIGGER. ;)\n\nI like the oldie but goodie:  "You snooze, you loose."\n\nSet mini-goals for yourself, such as getting off the couch/chair, then eating breakfast, then brushing your teeth, then showering, then getting dressed.\n\nYou will accomplish so many mini-goals that you'll be ready to conquer the world and tackle the bigger goals! Hooray!\n\nOof, no good.  Pep talking is not my thing I guess.  There's your motivation.  Go get something done or else you will be highly un-motivating like me. ;) :)\n\nKeep smiling :))
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i have the same problem. what i've found to help is to listen to music. i have also found that doing it out side while playing with a pet or while talking to a friend help a lot because then you actually are concentrating but on two things. it should make it easier. or you could tryplaying a sport befor you do your homework.
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I have ADD as well.  What works me best is a timer.\n\nWhen I started this, I would set my timer for five minutes and work for only those five minutes.  When that was up, I would reward myself.  I continued doing this until and slowly increased the time; thereby training myself to work for longer periods.\n\nI now bounce between 15 minutes (for when I feel antsy or weekday evenings when I have several different tasks to work on), 30 minutes or an hour (when I'm feeling pretty driven and I have a major project I'm working on).   Most places I've seen recommend that you work no more than an hour without breaks.\n\nThis may sound like you won't get anything done, but you will be amazed at how much you can get done in just 5 minutes.\n\nETA: ignore Don.  I had ADD well before anyone could tell me what it was.  And I KNEW that I had a problem most people didn't, I just didn't know what it was. When I found out what ADD was (after I graduated college) I was finally able to deal with it effectively.\n\nETA2: desabol has some good suggestions - I want to make some enhancements:\nGetting organized - lifehacker.com has some great suggestions, but I really recommend you start with a to-do list of some kind.  It could be a word document, a 5x7 card stack, or an online to-do - find what works best for you.  This is how I get organized at work.  \nYou don't have to finish one item on your list before you start another.  I often leave projects in the middle and go do something else.  This keeps me from getting overwhelmed with everything I need to do.\nMinimal distractions.  I don't know about you, but very few things use all of my brain.  I find that if some part of my mind is being ignored it can become the biggest distraction of all.  So you need to figure out what are your distractions (for me, it is anything in print and anything that moves), and what can calm that part of the brain that wants attention. Again for me, that is music and I find that photographs of outdoor places also calm me down.\nNotes I write straight onto my to-do list at work. \n\nAnother ADD specific point.  It's easy to get into a what-to-do Catch-22.  You need to wash the dishes, but you need to pay bills, but you need to do laundry, but you need to get the dishes done...\nThe way to solve this is to choose an arbitrary pattern.  I go around my house clockwise (one room per time block) even if the bedroom just needs picking up and the bills are overdue, I'll still start with the bedroom and ignore the bills till I get to them.