<p>I think my problem with schoolwork this year is that no matter how hard I try, I can't stay motivated or concentrated. At the same time, I want to get perfect grades so I procrastinate at the last minute. My procrastination is HORRIBLE, I pretty much always start my homework after 12am, even on days I have enough homework to last me 8 hours. Sometimes I skip school due to lack of sleep or if I fell asleep halfway through the night while doing my homework and didn't get it done. Then from missing school, I have even more homework and things to do, and yet I still keep procrastinating. It's a vicious cycle that just gets worse and worse.</p>
<p>My study habits are probably more extreme than anyone else's on here.</p>
<p>But still, does anyone have advice? I just can't get myself to do my work diligently and punctually anymore, and this has led to me getting bad grades. I am easily distracted and have severe problems concentrating. I can't even listen in class because my mind always tunes out.</p>
<p>think of how awesome your life would be if you got everything done on time and could concentrate in class and GET ENOUGH SLEEP</p>
<p>seriously, I love sleep so much that it sometimes motivates me to stop procrastinating.</p>
<p>get yourself back on track so that you’ve made up all your work and sleep, then reset your study habits. the worse you feel, the more you’ll procrastinate.</p>
<p>I just can’t get myself to enjoy schoolwork. Everything seems boring to me, and I find it a chore to get homework done for even classes I like. It’s not that I find the work too difficult, it’s just right for me, but I just have no motivation at all. I feel like there are more exciting things in life I could be moving onto, and that just discourages me from doing my schoolwork right now. I wish I could stop feeling like this. This isn’t just normal procrastination like starting homework at 6pm instead of right when you get home, it’s CHRONIC procrastination. It interferes with my normal life routine.</p>
<p>math+sci=asian, I PMed you.</p>
<p>peachpuff, that’s actually a really good idea, using sleep as an incentive. I’ve begun to love sleep so much lately.</p>
<p>bleedblue12345, thanks for the article. This paragraph TOTALLY describes me:
“A student suffering from deep procrastination will delay important work to an excessive degree. He won’t start studying until late the night before or will delay paper writing until the sun is about the rise. After a while, he might begin to chronically miss deadlines, and find himself constantly negotiating with professors about extensions. Sometimes it gets so bad that he misses the extended deadlines — failing courses instead of completing the required assignment. No matter how dire the stakes, starting work becomes an insurmountable prospect.”
(I regularly start 10-page papers due that day when the sun is about to rise)</p>
<p>I used to be like that.
You just have to tryto change your procrastinating ways. I failed SO many times, and became so disappointed in myself, but I knew that there was no benefit to procrastinating. If you at least try to stop procrastinating, even though you fail, the efforts will build up to point where you realize that it’s really not in your best interest to do so.
I just became so tired of failure and disappointing people and being tired and never fulfilling what I knew what I could do.</p>
<p>Example of my procrastination/the results of it:
-Writing a 12-page paper the night before the deadline
-procrastinating until 3 or 4 in the morning
-going on the computer for 10 hours before starting homework
-not getting papers done (which we had 2-3 weeks to write) before 7 in the morning and having to finish them during lunch right before class
-sleeping from when I got home to midnight and pulling constant all nighters</p>
<p>sound like you? :P</p>
<p>Maybe the fact that you find all homework a chore is due to the fact that you were so used to not doing homework that you just didn’t want to do it?
But anyway, doing your homework and not procrastinating so much in your endeavors will lead you to the “more exciting things in life [you] could be moving onto.”</p>
<p>I was going to start my homework this weekend (I have a ton) this morning. However, it’s 11:51pm and I still haven’t started. This happens to me every weekend.</p>
<p>Every school day this year, I’ve only gotten about 2-4 hours of sleep if any at all. Most nights I just don’t sleep, and I come home and sleep until midnight and start my homework at midnight, like you said.</p>
<p>I’m gonna just keep trying to stop doing this. It’s a miserable way to live. Thanks for the advice! So, what do you do now? Do you just start your homework right when you come home? I’ve got to stop being so distracted by the Internet…</p>
<p>Woa, I have the exact same thing.
But worst of all, I don’t only procrastinate in homework but also in college application and the SATs as well.
I’m pretty much doomed … Yet, I just completely lost all my motivations. </p>
<p>Well of course I still procrastinate a little bit, but it’s so much better. When I do have enough time to do my homework, I try to think of how happy I’ll be if I just get this over with. Because this one feeling I hate is drawing out an assignment over a span of a few hours due to procrastination that I could have done really well, then ending up finishing it sloppily because I wasted time.</p>
<p>Another piece of advice: you have to get yourself out of the mentality that you have until 7 am, or whenever you’re supposed to wake up for school, to do homework.
Set your mind for finishing your homework by 10pm or 12 am. Even though you might not get it done by that time, you’ll have gotten a lot done and you won’t be stuck in a cycle.</p>
<p>Also, for weekend homework: You know that you’ll mess up your entire week if you go to sleep late on sunday (since you’ll probably have to take a long nap on monday) so use this as an incentive to get to sleep on sunday in a timely manner. (After all, you have two extra days to do your homework! :))Then every day, try to preserve your good sleep cycle.</p>
<p>peachpuff, that’s a really good idea about thinking I only have until 10pm or 12am instead of 7am. I think that’s one of my biggest problems.</p>
<p>Wow, so right now it’s 2:30am. I told myself at 10pm that I would start my homework then. Granted, it’s a Saturday night/Sunday morning, but I have too much homework to have to start it on a Sunday night. See? I just can’t control myself. No self-discipline at all.</p>
Agree with this, no offense, I understand that you’re frustrated, but if you aren’t motivated yourself, that’s honestly something you have to come up with and your problem…there isn’t really much advice other than the generic cliches that will truly and actually help.</p>
<p>Hope that motivation comes too, though…I understand how it feels because I’ve also been lazy all my life and I didn’t even do hw most of the time until recently. </p>
<p>As I’m doing most of my hw nowadays, what helps me is the prospect of getting it done ASAP so that you can do things that you want…it helps that I got a lot done at school and that I work extremely fast to finish the whole thing in an hour-ish.</p>
<p>Extreme procrastination might be indicative of a lack of discipline and self-control in your character as a whole. If you find that a lack of concentration is present in other aspects of your life, you should try changing your habits and working on improving your discipline. Get on a strict physical regiment, find a job, and do more chores around the house. That way, discipline in your studies will come more naturally.</p>
<p>If it’s only in homework that you have trouble concentrating on, I suggest you try seeing it as something you enjoy doing, as opposed to work that needs to be done. I’m not sure how well this would work, but the idea is that if you keep thinking of academics as something you like, eventually you will like it.</p>
<p>At the very least, you can set some guidelines for yourself. Understand that…
Homework should be begun as soon as you arrive home.
You do not expect to relax until homework is complete.
On weekdays and Sundays, you do not expect to play videogames, watch TV, go on the internet, etc. Look forward to Friday nights and Saturdays to screw around.
Life is rough.
You’ll be able to sleep when you finish your homework.</p>
<p>However, different people require different things to get them through the day. Find what helps you, and use that to motivate yourself.</p>
there’s hope!</p>
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