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vazza1	Getting desperate!! Advice please??	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1 (05/14/08 07:37:02) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : desperate, procrastinator, advice Hi there, I am new on here and am a very bad procrastinator. I am currently studying a Masters, which will continue on to become a PhD course next year. I have 7 days to finish half of my dissertation, which is due in on the 20th of May. I keep sitting at the computer and checking my emails, looking at websites etc or doing absolutely anything to avoid actual work (even cleaning!!)!! Please, does anyone have any tips on how to get stuck into my work and stop avoiding it?? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you.
anabanana	I feel your pain...here's a thought	#1	[-]
Posts: 1 (05/18/08 11:14:49) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	vazza1 - Hi! I'm just checking out this site for the first time. I am also working on a masters, plus have a full time job (where I work on loosely defined long-term statistical modeling projects) - so, as you can imagine, mix that with procrastination issues and I'm pretty much a basket case most of the time. My point is that I feel your pain. Well, obviously I haven't found The Big Answer , or I wouldn't be here...but here is one thing that has been kind of working for me lately... I am a pretty big TV/movie addict, so to get myself to make progress I've been doing the following: -slip in a DVD I've been wanting to watch, and pause it at the start. -work on my task for ten minutes. -watch five minutes of the DVD, pause -work another ten minutes, -watch five minutes of the DVD, pause -and so on... That way I've ensured that I've spent at least twice as much time doing my work as watching DVD's.
vazza1	Thanks!	#2	[-]
Posts: 3 (06/02/08 01:14:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi Anabanana, thank you so much for offering me your advice. I forgot to mention previously that I also work full-time as a translator/researcher as well as doing the Masters (also full-time), and am a member of 3 associations, which take up a lot of my time. Therefore, as you can imagine, I am a basket case as well haha!! I am a big fan of watching films too, so I might try your technique, although it seems that would require a lot of discipline, don´t you ever slip up on that one and end up watching the DVD for ages? I know I would!! Best of luck.
vazza1	By the way..	#3	[-]
Posts: 4 (06/02/08 01:20:32) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	By the way I did get half of my dissertation handed in on the 20th/21st of May (albeit at 4am!!) however it was not up to par due to last minute panic. Usual nightmare. Is it possible to get out of this pattern of behaviour?
Sharonver	welcome!!!!!	#4	[-]
Posts: 827 (06/09/08 11:15:01) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hello and welcome to the forum, I host this forum and I still procrastinate!!! Although it has gotten a lot better. The only way that I know of is to keep working at it, even if you only do a little at a time, its better than nothing and eventually it will get done. The biggest challenge for me is to get started on a project, but once I get started and motivated then I am good to go. So thats what I work on most, motivation!!!! Good Luck... Sharon
hjass		#5	[-]
Posts: 1 (11/04/09 13:28:26) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi, sounds like you might need a system to help you get going. Check this one out. It's quite good: http://reframeproductivity.com

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