how do i get out of procrastinating?
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Put your house on fire and test whether u  procrastinate. If u do - u will get insurance money- if u dont- u'll save ur house
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Stop procrastinating and then study :)
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Sort out the problem. Think of a creative alternative to come out of the problem. Take time to relax, play and then get to study. Believe in yourself. You can come out of the problem.
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Find a quiet place where there's no distractions: computers, TV, radio, etc. \nGet everything you need to finish your homework: books, rulers, paper, etc. It's easier to get distracted if you're getting up every now and then to get something.\nSet your mind to it.\nOh yeah, don't spend your time on Yahoo! Answers.
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Procrastination, that evil of evils, can be beaten - if you take the right approach.\n \nSteps:\n1.  Look at the deadline of any new assignment you get and write it on your calendar. For assignments with no deadline - a frequent phenomenon in graduate school - impose a deadline yourself.\n \n2.  Imagine how the world will look on that date, to make it real to you: What will the weather be like? What else will have changed? Don't allow those changes to pass without finishing the assignment.\n \n3.  Calculate roughly how many hours the assignment will take.\n \n4.  Decide, before bedding down each night, how much time you're going to spend the next day on the assignment.\n \n5.  Remind yourself, upon waking up, of this amount of time.\n \n6.  Tell yourself that you won't allow yourself any leisure activities that day until you've put in the promised amount of time.\n \n7.  Reward yourself, when done for the day, in whatever way you see fit. This reward is key - having a positive incentive can make all the difference.\n \n8.  Don't be afraid to call your student services office. There are well-trained people out there who can help you.\n \n \nTips:\nFor particularly long assignments, don't think too much about how much work it will actually take to finish. Instead, take small steps and have faith that they'll add up to something big. After all, as they say, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.\n \nEvery person has his or her own style. Tweak this method in whatever way fits you best. For instance, if this process doesn't feel quite arm-twisting enough, try marking off each day on the calendar when you get up that day.\n \nRemember that you're not alone; lots of people are guilty of procrastinating.\n \n \nWarnings:\nDon't panic if you slip up the first day or two; it's still early. Take some deep breaths and re-commit yourself to doing the next day's work.\n \nTips from eHow Users:\nAccount For Your Time by Steve\nAt the end of the day, take a few minutes to account for what you've done. Include productive and non-productive activities. If you watched TV for an hour, write it down. If you worked for 15 minutes, write that down, too. That way, you'll know which activities you need to avoid the next day, and will be better able to gage how long your project *actually* took.\n\nTake advantage of your time in the bathroom by eHow Friend\nWhen you are using the bathroom, you really have nothing to do other than your necessities. You can take advantage of this by bringing a textbook or paper to write down all of your ideas for your paper. You might even bring your laptop. Since you have no distractions like TV or the Internet, you are almost forced to do some of your work. You may even stay in there, even after your done with your necessities, in order to finish reading a passage or writing something down. Sometimes I get so into it that my legs fall asleep. When you leave the bathroom you will be more willing to get back to work, since you were in the middle of doing it already.
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prioritize your tasks. tackle the immediate hard ones first. you will have more satisfaction knowing the hard one had been done. less stress doing the easier tasks. you dont have to finish everything in one sitting though. can you delegate responsibilities? be happy.
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3 steps my friend..\n\n1. write them down. this will give you an overview of all that is required. from the most important to the least.\n\n2. act now. procrastination is a killer. why wait till tomorrow to do what you can do today. start from the most important.\n\n3. persist. do not start only to stop half way. finish what you start.\n\nhope these will help you.
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don't procrastinate. putting things off until the last minute is always a bad idea!
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Me too! Make a time schedule for yourself and block out hours of the day to do things. Give yourself more time than you think you need to complete assignments. That should help. Also, find out how you focus: do you like constant background noise or no noise at all. That should help.I have ADHD and working with a consistent backgroud noise works for me.
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Procrastination is the problem here my friend...\nWe all do that. We put-off studying till the 11th hour and then end up having to work on loads of stuff. At this point, we get scared and our heart fills with feelings of frustration, giult, & failure.\nHere's are a few references that might help...I was a chronic procrastinator...I would be scared to study. Now i am slowing getting the confidence.\nREMEMBER: There is NO substitute for hard work\nBest of Luck!!!!
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Okay, I won't say just do it.  But I'm a procrastinator at heart but I find that even though I want to put things off I know that once I get started I will do what needs to be done and usually go on to do a bunch of other things.  If I don't start it won't get done.  It's just that simple.  I don't know if there is any actual cure for it.
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the more you procrastinate the worse it gets. Get it done now. Not in 5 mins, not in an hour, not in a day, not in a week. NOW!!! otherwise your problem will keep getting worse
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for starters, stop posting messages on the internet. \n\nI use something called Delayed Gratification. You have to condition yourself to save the easy or enjoyable tasks until you have completed the more difficult or mundane ones. Or if all of your work is terrible, then tell yourself you will not chat online for at least an hour, or until you finish XYZ task. Then reward yourself with something fun, or at least something easy. Then repeat.\n\nVery often the things you dread doing and put off are not so bad once you start them.\n\nGood luck.
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Make a list of things you want to achieve, set date/goals for them. Hold yourself accountable. \n\nAnd spend less time on the Internet. ;-)\n\nImran
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1 - Stop wasting time on internet sites lol\n\n2 - Prioritise your workload and make a "To Do" list\n\n3 - If you know that you will not meet your deadline, talk to whoever set it, explain why not and when the work will be completed by.\n\n4 - Look at why you are in this situation. Are you receiving too much work? Have you wasted time? Are you involving others to help you, or delegating properly as appropriate? What can be done to prevent a repeat situation?\n\n5 - Sometimes when I have a lot of work to do I find it helps to actually stand back from it for a little while. I'll go for a short walk outside, clear my head, plan what I am going to do, and then return refreshed and able to better cope with the situation. Despite the time "lost" with the break, I will then be able to complete the work a lot faster and without the stress!
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I had this problem too. The fact that you admit to having this problem and expressing a desire to stop it is the first step. The only way to break this habit is by force of mind. I did my homework in a room without the T.V., gaming system, or computer. Keep your gaming system unpluged and the controllers and the T.V. remote locked up in a cabinet., and keep your computer turned off and unpluged until your homework is done. This helps to minimize the impact of these distractions while you do your homework. Force yourself to keep this routine and after a while, it'll become a new habit. If you go to the T.V., etc. as a way to unwind after a hard day of school, try another outlet such as reading a book or exercising. Keep at it and you'll break the procrastination habit in no time.
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Just sign out from yahoo answers\nAND go to desk\nsimple