<p>Lately I've been feeling incredibly sluggish homework/school-wise. I want to do well, but I can't get myself to get off my butt and do something instead of procrastinating. Any suggestions? (and yes,I know CC is probably not the best thing to be doing when procrastinating)</p>
<p>Just do it! Make your mom drop you off at the library. Can't do anything unproductive there, unless you really tried:p</p>
<p>Find someone to compete with. I'm VERY competitive by nature and finding a few friiends who are more or less than me really push me foward.</p>
<p>competition. i was doing jack s h i t this vacation (kickin it with my bf, going out, blabla) & i found out my two close friends (who are also my competition. BIG TIME!) were doing all this school-related stuff. studying for APs, community service, getting a job, etc. so that motivated me to start moving my butt & outdo them. haha. :)</p>
<p>if you're talking about other things.. UCLA is my motivation. and getting into my top colleges. just think about where you wanna be in whatever years & know that if you wanna get there, you gotta do your homework! haha.</p>
<p>staring at a picture of the porsche carrera gt works for me</p>
<p>Competition motivates me. I've already screwed myself over first semester, so there's no hope for valedictorian anymore, but that's not what I'm aiming for anyway. I just set small goals for myself at the beginning, and then I keep pushing the goals more and more so as I go along.</p>
<p>Don't try to make your goals completely long range like, "Get all 97s and above this year", but rather something like, "Get all As this quarter." And once you get all your As, make it a little more long-lasting, like "Maintain and try to improve all those As for the rest of this semester." And if you get something like a B or a C, make a promise to yourself to raise it to the next level, and if you're up to, the next level after that.</p>
<p>CC is also another motivation to myself; seeing all these high stats intimidates me, but it also makes me think, "Well, I have to work twice as hard so that I'll be able to compare myself to them as well."</p>
<p>=P Hope that helped.</p>
<p>there was a thread identical to this a long time ago...hehe</p>
<p>um i am never motivated to do stuff. if im in the mood, i go at it like crazy. if im not and someone's forcing me, i never do it.</p>
<p>playing video games, when you play it for a very very long time, then you get bored of video games which eventually makes you find working more enjoyalbe</p>
<p>For me: Uninstall AIM. It's not motivating but I concentrate better without the constant IM windows popping up.</p>
<p>I think about my good grades to get a discount on my car insurance..</p>
<p>This really only works for seniors, but for me doing my homework helps distract me from thinking about college all the time.</p>
<p>I motivate myself by thinking that I have so many great opportunities, if I waste em, I'm wasting my life. Plus, forget about yourself, and think about the contributions you can make to the human race as a whole. lol works for me =]</p>
<p>Just reconsider everything you do everyday. If it matters enough to be
important in 5 or 10 years then you are not wasting your time. If it doesn't, like AIM, myspace, TV, etc, then you are wasting your time.</p>
<p>i have a picture of the Golden Dome at Notre Dame that hangs above my desk</p>
<p>.... thats all the motivation i need</p>
<p>O.o wow you guys are all nerds...I cannot possibly believe you guys can even consider aim and myspace as waste of time...I mean i thought it was work...since i actually learn and experience things through them...wow you guys have high standards...</p>
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<p>Just because someone considers MySpace and AIM a waste of time doesn't mean they're "nerds." And FYI, I don't think they're a waste of time myself [well...a little bit for MySpace honestly], and I'm actually on AIM right now.</p>
<p>And you thought what was work? Huh? =P</p>
<p>Reading tends to motivate me. It's that or look at my dad moping around in the living room. That usually makes me go 'do I want to be like that in 30 years?' (I love my dad dearly) If that doesn't work, and my dad finds out that I haven't done anything, he'll start joking around that I'll wind up with the people in my grade for another 2 years at the local community college if I don't start working!</p>
<p>On the subject of "wasting time" on AIM and TV -- I would disagree. Having discussions with your friends hardly qualifies as a waste of time. Honestly, if I couldn't talk to the people that matter most to me, I would go insane. TV is a little harder to argue, but there are shows out there that have in-depth and complicated story lines that really cause you to think. Yes, they are there for entertainment, but many of them have great messages. I don't have a Myspace, so I won't comment on that.</p>
<p>On the subject of motivation -- I tend to get distracted a lot by thinking about college or doing things college related (I'm a junior). Then I realize that if I don't do the work that I'm supposed to be doing, then I won't get the grades that I need to get into the schools that I want. Another thing that helps me when I actually have the will power to do it is to set a time (usually fifteen or thirty minutes) or a goal (like one page of a paper or six pages of a book) and just work for that period of time. Only after this, can I go back to whatever I was doing before, or go do something else. I then do this for ten minutes before I start the process over again. The prospect of whatever I choose afterwards motivates me to work for the time I set.</p>
<p>What motivates me? </p>
<p>Ummm... I love to learn... and I set the bar high for myself... and I have a reputation to uphold. In some areas, I feel I must entirely outdo my classmates; in other areas, I just feel I have to hold my own; in a small number of areas, my goal is simply to not embarrass myself. ;) And I usually end up doing far better by other people's standards than by my own standards, because I work hard to meet or exceed my goal for whatever area. (If I meet my goal of outdoing my classmates, then by my standards my performance is merely adequate; by others' standards, my performance is stellar. And it's really not an option to be inadequate--by my standards--because I would be disappointed in myself, regardless of what other people think.)</p>
<p>Motivation:</p>
<p>A father who threatens to take away your driver's license if you don't get all A's.</p>