how do i prevent distraction and procrastination?
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Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task which needs to be accomplished. This can lead to feelings of guilt, inadequacy, depression and self-doubt among students. Procrastination has a high potential for painful consequences. It interferes with the academic and personal success of students.\n\n\nHow to Overcome Procrastination:\n\nRecognize self-defeating problems such as; fear and anxiety, difficulty concentrating, poor time management, indecisiveness and perfectionism. \nIdentify your own goals, strengths and weaknesses, values and priorities. \nCompare your actions with the values you feel you have. Are your values consistent with your actions? \nDiscipline yourself to use time wisely: Set priorities. \nStudy in small blocks instead of long time periods. For example, you will accomplish more if you study/work in 60 minute blocks and take frequent 10 minute breaks in between, than if you study/work for 2-3 hours straight, with no breaks. Reward yourself after you complete a task. \nMotivate yourself to study: Dwell on success, not on failure. Try to study in small groups. Break large assignments into small tasks. Keep a reminder schedule and checklist. \nSet realistic goals. \nModify your environment: Eliminate or minimize noise/ distraction. Ensure adequate lighting. Have necessary equipment at hand. Don't waste time going back and forth to get things. Don't get too comfortable when studying. A desk and straight-backed chair is usually best (a bed is no place to study). Be neat! Take a few minutes to straighten your desk. This can help to reduce day-dreaming. \n\n\nStudy Skills Self-help Information:\nhttp://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html
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cut down on the disctractions. cut off your cellphone and don't open your messenger.\nalso, rotate your homework so you do one boring subject followed by one fun subject. and have an accountability partner. say, you'll meet your friend at starbucks when you get your homework done, and when you get there, have her ask you if it's done.
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I think the best thing to do is to work on things over time instead of saving everything for the last minute.  I always found that when the last minute came, I would just keep putting things off.  Just set aside a little bit of time each day to work on something.  But, oh i know thats harder said than done.
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I understand completely! The best way is to manage your time efficiently. When you get home from school set and follow a schedule. For example, give yourself a half hour to get a snack and to situated yourself. Next begin with the subject that will require the most concentration and effort. don't work for hours straight because it'll increase your chances of getting distracted. Work in hour increments and reward yourself by allowing ten minute breaks in between. Make sure that when you do homework and study that your t.v's are off radios are off and there's quite so you can concentrate. If home is took hectic try the school or your local library, the setting of your study area is crucial. If you're not one to study in dead silence fine, just make sure it's comfortable and that you can actually focus and get work done in a timely manner. This way if you get all your homework done right away you will be able to sleep easy at night without having to worry if something didn't get finished and you will have time to relax and watch your favorite shows. Just remember, set up a schedule that will make the best of your time and relaxation is only a few homework problems away.
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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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Divide tasks into small, easy to do parts. Also try to ignore the things that disturb you, ie: TV, Computer (if you can help it), iPod, ect.\n\nHere is an example how to divide the tasks into smaller parts. Let's say we have a report due in 1 week. Here is a made-up schedule:\n\nDay 1\n-Find information for 30 minutes\n\nDay 2\n-Find information for 30 minutes\n\nDay 3\n-Write rough draft for 30 minutes\n\nDay 4\n-Finish rough draft\n\nDay 5\n-Write Final Copy for 30 minutes\n\nDay 6\n-Finish final copy\n\nDay 7\n-Relax\n\nBy doing a little work each day, I find it to make things easy in the long run. I think that working for about 30 minutes a day will not be tiring, but you will still get quite a bit done.
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Decide what had been your routine in internet. Seeing mails and replying the most important MUST REPLY is ok.\nAny reminders to wish on birthday etc is ok. \nRest of routine things including reading news papers periodicals and YAHOO QUESTION AND ANSWERS can wait till you finish your work.\nWHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY.
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Getting up and walking around helps a lot.  Drink some water.  Find a diversion that can keep you engaged for a minute or so when you get sleepy.  Sometimes when I get really tired in the afternoon I do math problems in my head or try to remember arcane facts about cars.  Q&A is also a good way to keep your mind alert...
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First, get off of Yahoo answers! it's the ultimate procrastination site. See, i'm procrastinating myself right now!\n\nNext, take assessing your work as a job itself, and break it into short tasks that you can accomplish one step at a time.\n\nThen, start with the first task (assessing your work), and promise yourself a break after you do it. Limit your break time, but do something you enjoy between tasks, even if it's just watching tv for half an hour, or going on yahoo answers for 15 minutes ;)\n\nThen do the next task, and take another short break. etc...\n\nThis way, you keep on getting things done, and you still have some fun (or at least something less miserable) to look forward to throughout the day/evening, even if you do have a lot of work to do.\n\ngood luck!
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You could write a tale about a boy who procrastinated and how he learned not to do that in the future. Good luck with this, and remember to check your spelling.
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do projects immediately, its more gratifying to go ahead and have them done than to procrastinate.  act like the project is due on a date well before it is actually due, and if you have to stay up late that night and finish, do so, but if the chance that you don;t finish occurs, you will not be out of luck.  I know it is hard to do, but the stress level from procrastination will no longer be with you and you will get more rest and relaxation as opposed to freaking out the night before, and not doing well.
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You might try slowing down your typing as well.  If you're going to do something, do it well. (And use spell check)
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pro·cras·ti·nate    (pr-krst-nt, pr-) KEY  \n\nVERB: \npro·cras·ti·nat·ed , pro·cras·ti·nat·ing , pro·cras·ti·nates \nVERB: \nintr. \n\nTo put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness. \nVERB: \ntr. \n\nTo postpone or delay needlessly. \n\nProcrastination is the act of procrastinating, putting tasks off to a future, delaying, deferring, postponing, not getting around to tasks.\n\nThere are number of possible cures to procrastination. You can overcome procrastination with various psychological methods. It is also possible to stop procrastination with energy work techniques. Some people succesfully utilize just simple time management techniques to end procrastination in its tracks.\n\nWhichever technique to quit procrastination one will choose, the most important factor for breaking the procrastination habit is persistence. Habits are tough to break, the procrastination habit being one of the toughest. \n\nProcrastinating is a serious problem affecting 25-70% of population. According to the research done by McCown & Roberts, 40% of people have experienced loss due to procrastination and around 25% of people claim their problem to be chronic.\n\nIt is one of the most expensive problems one could ever have. If an average procrastinator would count up the losses from missed opportunities in school, carreer and personal life, when expressed in monetary terms, it would often be an impressive amount of money. Not counting the emotional and psychical losses - often even more depressing.\n\nProcrastination is not laziness. Most people, who were never affected by this problem, will show very little understanding for problems that usual procrastinator is facing every day in real life - which will add even more to her/his problems. Others will attempt to help with well meant time management advices, wondering why the procrastinator is impossible to implement them, thinking she/he must be lazy. Again, that will just make the problem deeper and more depressing.\n\nProcrastination, though not officially classified as such, is a psychological problem that can have roots in (or comes alongside with) several officialy recognized "illnesses" (eg. phobia, depression, low self-esteem). Other causes can range anywhere from bad time management abilities to problems with authorities, self-sabotage, bad decision making or self-motivational issues. \n\nMore info in the links!
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I soooo hear you on this one. I'm in University and I'm a procrastinator to the core. I don't know if this will help you or not but, I got a laptop for my birthday this year, and now that I can sit on the couch and be comfortable (and I like being in the midst of noise too) I find it much easier to get work done. I think you just have to find a place where you can be comfortable, and know what time of day you work best at (I way prefer nights to mornings). Also, drinking water works better than caffeine. Good luck to you!
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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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pull allnighters, take lots of caffeine, kill the tv and computer and phone, and most importantly take aderol or some equivalent anti-ADD (attention deficit disorder) prescription drug ---this stuff makes ur brain a sponge. oh and don't forget to use study guides and your notes/textbook.
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I think you have to have a definite reason otherwise you procrastinate. One thing that can help is to make a list of things that will make you feel good if you complete the task. Then promise yourself that all you have to do is complete three things on the list each day. They can be small things like buy plants, pay bills or go to the dry cleaners. The deal is you have to complete three things each day no matter what. Good luck!