what are soome good tips to stop procrastinating?

Answer 1

no more yahoo answers tonight! get to work!

Answer 2

After reading the book by Neil Fiore I tried some of very doable practical advice he offers. First, count the time you work during the day. Make it many short periods with a lot of breaks, but the periods should not be shorter than 30 minutes. 30 minutes is the right amount of time to get concentrated on the matter at hand and get "into the flow". Second, it is important to know that you will always have rest after you work. Set a day for rest. Do lots of leisure activities. Fiore suggests an "unschedule" strategy: you schedule all the fun things you are supposed to do and then you see how really little time you have left for doing your work. You start appreciating this time.
Third, and the most important thing, procrastination usually arises as a fearful reaction to the overwhelming amounts of work or achieving success or, vice versa, failure. This fear requires more work and often a person by himself/herself cannot cope with it - he/she needs professional help.
But what is good about the easy strategies by Fiore, is that you gradually increase productive time from 0 to up to 30 hours per week. Just by counting the 30-minute periods, by "unscheduling" and other useful tricks (like "bad draft"). Now I am going to stop my very fun activity of answering Yahoo! questions and to start thinking on that chapter of my thesis (for half an hour, at least) :- )

Answer 3

This is a huge issue for me as well. What I do now is to look at the smaller things a that need doing, it doesn't matter if they are vitally important, just as long as I do something.
It sounds childish but I even went through a phase of having a 'star chart' where I rewarded myself for accomplishing things with a star. because I work on my own, and there is no team leader, or other work colleagues to tell me I did a good job, in many ways the allocation of stars provided me with the encouragement I needed.
Other times I find going outside for a run, or a walk, just changing environments for a time can be helpful.

Answer 4

I am a big procrastinator. The only that has helped with this problem (which undoubtedly happened as a small child), was to make lists in order of importance.

I sit down and assign my tasks a value of importance. If things are due at the same time, I rate them on difficulty.

While it might sound as though this is time-consuming, it actually prompts me to get things done. With a list, I can see exactly what I need to do, when it's due, and all the other things that might conflict with it getting done.

Answer 5

Procrastination is not an inherent part of your personality or character, it is simply a habit, an attitude. You must first change your attitude towards something that you don't feel like doing. Stop saying "someday" I'll get it done and just do it today. Trust me once you do or accomplish whatever it is you are procrastinating, you'll feel much better and realize that it wasn't as hard as you thought it would be. Always remind yourself that you are capable of greatness everyday and believe it. God bless.

Answer 6

Just do what you gotta do, silly. Instead of taking 10 mins on something that should only take 5 min do it in the 5. Have things ready for the next day. Like have what your gonna wear out or having what you use ( for hygiene) in the morning out. Just do things to make it simple for what you gotta do.

Answer 7

Make a list, then prioritize the list. Keep it within eyesight and "reward" yourself with each task done by crossing it off the list. I think the key here is looking at all you have to do one task at a time.

Answer 8

I find that setting a certain time ahead of time to do something will motivate me to do it, such as getting up at a certain time. If I have any doubt as to whether I wanted to get up at a certain time as to opposed sleeping another five minutes, then I end up sleeping that extra five minutes unless I think of getting the thing done immediately and of having it in my mind anticipated.

Answer 9

stop - get off this site - take a deep breathe and get our self up - ok i'm going to listen to my own advise see you after I 've down a least an hors work bye

Answer 10

well if you have ADD, you can take pills. but if you don't just find ways to keep you focused like turn the monitor screen off. and don't turn it back on. do work where there is no distractions (t.v,computer,radio etc.)

Answer 11

Just get on with it, even if it's just a little at a time.