How do I stop procrastinating? I have a shit tonne of college work due before the end of the year, just over a week from now. I also have a terrible habit of both staying up and sleeping late. This isn't helped by my 6-10pm work shifts. Any advice would be helpful
plan out your remaining week
write realistic achievable goals
follow that shit up
I too am the type of dude that does everything in the last possible minute... but I DO it
>>18414673
Stay in school.
Meaning, if you have any homework, or studying, do it on campus. Come early, stay late, something.
I know, when I got home, nomatter what grand plan I had for doing work, I'd see my shitty environs and not do jack shit besides what I wanted to do. When I get "home" I'm not doing "work". So I stayed at 'work' to do 'work'
Go to your library or study hall or suchlike and do your work there, before allowing yourself to go home. IF you get assigned some work, walk out the class, walk into the library, start working on it right away.
Or if you REALLY like to procrastinate, go to the library two hours before class and do your assigned work then.
>>18414673
I pretend that aliens are watching and filming me to make a documentary on pathetic humans who procrastinate. For some reason that always motivates me to do shit
>>18414673
Make a checklist of the shit you want to get done in the day. Set up a specific time to sleep, and especially to get up. Obviously make sure you're getting adequate sleep. Going to the gym gave me a lot of motivation to get other shit done, so consider that too.
Some easy tips to help sleep earlier is to limit caffeine intake, and stop staring at screens. The blue light keeps tricking your brain into staying awake
>>18414673
Honestly you need a little bit of self discipline but I agree with >>18414723
As someone who sometimes has a tendency to procrastinate I find myself never doing so if I stay on campus to work, go to a cafe or the library. But if I go home, there is a much higher chance of getting sidetracked. Good luck. Also really, all that work, start now. Better to have a week (plenty of time) than only a night.
>>18414673
There is actually a proven method to do this. Start daily working on something for 1 min a day, same time EVERY day. when that becomes easy bump it up to 5 minutes.
When that becomes easy bump it up to 15 minutes.
Then 30, then an hour then two hours.
This is a proven method (in japan BTW) to getting annoying, necisary tasks out of the way without frustration.