<p>How do you guys deal with procrastination? I'm such a terrible procrastinator, but I sometimes feel like I'll actually try to do something under pressure.</p>
<p>But seriously, any tips to stop procrastination?</p>
<p>Start things really early, when there’s no real pressure to get anything right. I usually procrastinate because I’m afraid of failure. </p>
<p>Freak yourself out with the consequences of leaving it until later? 
That’s basically how I deal with life…</p>
<p>Take short breaks in between periods of work; make detailed to-do lists so you feel accomplished when you cross something off; reward yourself by relaxing / goofing off when you get everything done</p>
<p>Have a parent watch what you’re doing constantly so you don’t go astray :3 <em>Asian Parents FTW</em>
That or slap yourself when you realize you’re procrastinating.
Oh, and maybe you could focus on the success you’ll achieve by doing the work xD</p>
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This. You can make to-do lists in Gmail, and that’s the only way I remember to do anything anymore.</p>
<p>I wish I could give advice about procrastination. (There was this one time that I did my math homework before school started, my history homework in math class, my biology homework in history, and my chemistry homework in yearbook.)</p>
<p>Although, it helps to think about all the free time you’ll have (without feeling guilty) if you go ahead and do that homework now rather than the night before. </p>
<p>I’m working on this project for World History that’s due tomorrow. I’ve had a week and a half to do it, but I barely had anytime at all this week because of the musical, so I’m just freaking out here lol. </p>
<p>I realized last year that I work better under pressure and some stress, so procrastinating kinda helps, in a way. Like if I have only two days left to do something, I can sit down and hammer out a 3 page paper no problem. It doesn’t work to tell myself to write a paragraph a night over the course of two weeks. </p>
<p>So I guess I’ve learned to master it instead of let it conquering me? Everyone paints it to be a bad thing, and it is, technically, but if you don’t have a problem getting it done, then it’s not really an issue, other than hating yourself for procrastinating while doing it at 2 AM. I always freak out about stuff when I’m working on it last minute, but I’ve never not gotten anything finished that had to be (knock on wood). </p>
<p>@CE527M
True point. Honestly, I can BS an essay a million times better than I could last year. I don’t think it really qualifies as a skill, but at this point, it doesn’t make much of a difference how much time I spend on an assignment. My problem with procrastination though is that I feel like there’s so much more that I can be doing with my time. Like right now I could be researching in advance for my science fair project. </p>
<p>It’s really only a bad thing if you procrastinate by doing things that won’t contribute to your happiness in the long run (like messing around on the Internet, which is what I usually do when I procrastinate). Basically, it’s bad if it causes you to do stupid things you wouldn’t want to do if you weren’t trying to put something off. </p>
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But the point of doing essays isn’t to get a good grade, especially with grade inflation the way it is. Being a good writer is rarer than getting good grades, and that’s what we’re supposed to be aiming toward. (I mostly think in pictures rather than words, so I always feel like there are a lot of thoughts in my head that I’ll never be able to tell anyone about because I don’t know how to put them into words, and I feel like my life would be “fuller” somehow if I could write better and express myself more coherently. But right now there’s Reddit to be looked at, and I can always do something productive tomorrow.)</p>
<p>I don’t really have this problem because I plan out when I’m gonna do my homework. Then again I’m only in 9th grade.</p>
<p>I’m with @CE527M - I can’t handle doing a paragraph a day, I get into a mindset which is irreversible and varies each time I sit down to write. Once I get out of a certain mindset which I write in well, I can’t get back into it. If I do, my essay has no fluency whatsoever.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather
I usually don’t procrastinate on written-assignments. (I actually have fun with them sometimes, but shhh, don’t tell anyone.) But when I do, it isn’t as difficult as it would’ve been because of the practice I’ve gotten writing.</p>
<p>Bump just because </p>