Has anyone here successfully overcome procrastination?

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thespeakerbox

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It wasnt so bad in high school. I still breezed through with straight A's , but college is a whole different ballgame. I gotta get over this before it really slows me down in life.

Anyone know any tricks or resources that help get over procrastination. I've read that there are two kinds: the relaxed kind that puts things off but it doesnt realyl bother them. The second would be the anxiety type that gets all stressed but still wont just get a task over with. Im more of the later. It seems i cant control it. I lose attention and focus so easily when doing anything. I hate to sit around and do nothing, but instead i always have to take on new projects or do some more reading, or learn something new. I cant sit and focus on following one thing through. Anyone have any links, books or suggestions that might help out.
 
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Arkitech

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I'm 33 with the same problem. I'm working on trying to get out of the habit, but I still have a long way to go. I think if I could concentrate on getting things done sooner I would have been a millionaire years ago. Fortunately I'm still on the path to a very successful future but it's taken longer due to my procasitination issues.
 
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Cobalt

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Not quite. If at work it's only when I work with my department manager, even then it's still difficult.
 
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I am the same way. In HS it wasnt so bad.. but toward the end of college it really got a bit problematic at times.

I do have one bit of advice. Set deadlines, and stick to them. Also use alarm clocks a LOT. Buy a watch with 5 + alarms and set one and link that alarm to a specific goal like "oh, I need to have one page written by time the next alarm goes off"
 
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I have issues with procrastination that border on the silly.

Take this example:

I have a domain (just personal, not a business). It expires soon. To renew it, all I'd have to do is log onto my registar's website and enter my credit card info, and I would have it renewed. Simple as that. It'd take less than a minute. Then I'd be done.

No, this does not happen.

I procrastinate on it as best I can. I ignore the expiration notices that come to my inbox. "YOU HAVE 90 DAYS LEFT" ... "30 DAYS LEFT"... "15 DAYS LEFT TO RENEW YOUR DOMAIN, IDIOT". So here I am, 15 days to go, and I sit on it. Every few nights I remember... oh, you have to renew your domain. Then, January 1st comes along, and I have that moment of dread: did I get the 15 day notice December 10? December 20? If earlier, I'd have missed the deadline. Maybe I was still okay. My body tenses up. I now dread checking my inbox.

So, now I am procrastinating on an even simplier task: checking my inbox. Checking my fvcking inbox. Just to see when my domain expires. You couldn't have ask me to do a simplier thing, yet here I am procrastinating on it.

Finally, today, I get the nerve to check the message. The domain expires January 5th. And by the grace of God, I somehow managed to get over this stupid god damn procrastination hump and made it to my registar's website, where I renewed my domain. With three days to spare.

Phew.
 
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Azndude2190

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Originally posted by: thespeakerbox
It wasnt so bad in high school. I still breezed through with straight A's , but college is a whole different ballgame. I gotta get over this before it really slows me down in life.

Anyone know any tricks or resources that help get over procrastination. I've read that there are two kinds: the relaxed kind that puts things off but it doesnt realyl bother them. The second would be the anxiety type that gets all stressed but still wont just get a task over with. Im more of the later. It seems i cant control it. I lose attention and focus so easily when doing anything. I hate to sit around and do nothing, but instead i always have to take on new projects or do some more reading, or learn something new. I cant sit and focus on following one thing through. Anyone have any links, books or suggestions that might help out.
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Here you go:

http://www.getmotivatedstaymotivated.co...ical-ways-to-stop-procrastination.html

Personally I think #3 is a key.
 
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