Do you have any quick, personal tips to stop procrastination?

one, stay off your computer as much as you can
two, sit at a desk with no distractions
three, don’t have a lot of sugar or coffee related food/drinks (more sugar=more energy = less likely to sit still).
four, wear everything as if you were at school. ( I wear my shoes and it’s amazing and strange the difference that it makes)
five, when you take breaks don’t look at the TV or go on the computer. (a SHORT walk usually is a good break)

In: “Feeling Good – the new mood therapy” by David D. Burns, the author provides 14 methods for coping with various aspects of procrastination. Read: The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil Fiore, & The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus Into Your Life by Thomas M. Sterner, & Awaken Your Strongest Self: Break Free of Stress, Inner Conflict, and Self-Sabotage by Neil Fiore, & (for younger people) See You Later, Procrastinator! (Get It Done) (Laugh & Learn series) by Elizabeth Verdick and Pamela Espeland, from your bookstore, or enter “procrastination” in the searchbar at Amazon.com for other books, and media. Counterintuitively, to some extent, motivation follows action, and not the other way around, like a pump which needs priming, or a bonfire that needs to be be lit, before going. The diagram goes as follows: INITIAL ACTION > MOTIVATION > MORE ACTION > MORE MOTIVATION > MORE ACTION, and so on. So: MAKE A START, even if only for a minute. We tend to view tasks in their entirety, making them appear huge.I find that it helps to break it down into readily achievable stages, and promise myself a small reward, on the completion of each, and a bigger one, once finalised. Another tactic is to promise yourself that you will make a start, and just do 5, or 10 minutes. If, at the end of that time, you feel like continuing, do so. Otherwise, take a short break, and come back to it, later. It’s making the start, that’s often the hardest part, and once that is done, everything else often just seems to fall into place, possibly because your unconscious mind is using parallel procession, and continuing to consider it, during the breaks. Set a timer, or alarm, to remind you when your next break is due, and don’t put off resuming it for too long.

To put it off is to create a disincentive to returning to the task, and is procrastination in another form. Remember similar previous successes. Consider what will happen if you don’t get it done. If you have a deadline for a project; mark the date a few days before the due date, and then count the days back to today. Estimate and divide the work and time over that timeframe, so that by the date due, you’ll have completed it, by following the schedule/map outline of the project that you created. That gives you back the power and the control over your life and timetable, and extra time, if needed, as often happens. Folders, shelves, and boxes, clearly labelled, and assigning a place for everything, then getting into the habit (it takes 30 – 40 repetitions to establish a habit, for most people) of putting things in their respective places will make it much easier, in the long term, and help you in other ways, as well (having places for your keys, credit cards, wallet/purse, cellular mobile phone, P.D.A., etc., so you never misplace them). Colour coding can sometimes be of additional benefit in quickly locating something. The benefits will carry over into other areas of your life, too, such as work. View: http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/ove… & http://psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20030… & http://shanelyang.com/2008/05/15/get-a-h… & http://depression.about.com/cs/selfhelp/… & http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/… & http://www.studygs.net/attmot3.htm & http://www.how-to-study.com/study-skills/en/studying/36/procrastination/ & http://www.studytips.org/procrastination.htm & at http://www.43things.com/things/view/225/… the topic of laziness is also addressed.

Enter “procrastination” in the searchbar at http://www.mercola.com The time and effort you put into overcoming procrastination now will be repaid countless times over. Most people are suggestible, to some degree, so you could either seek professional hypnotherapy, or more alternatives along such lines are at http://your-mental-health.8m.com/blank_25.html

Here are some quick tips to stop procrastinating QUICK and NOW:

1) Imagine how much better you will feel when you’ve completed your task. If it’s a bigger task that takes lots of time, imagine how much better you will feel to know that you’ve started. Use this feeling to get yourself started.

2) Don’t put yourself in situations where you are “justifying” putting something off. For example, never say to yourself “I can’t start studying until I’ve _________.” It is extremely easy to talk yourself out of something and procrastination is the art of perfecting these self-generated excuses.

3) Just get started! You’ll be amazed how much easier tasks are once you’ve begun them.

If you really want to take charge and change your habit of procrastinating, try taking the 21-day Procrastination Challenge from this website: http://www.stopprocrastinating.net/

I use music to reduce my procrastination. For some reason, it helps me focus on what needs to be done (even though I listen to loud heavy metal music; go figure! ). I also try my best to stay off the internet and out of the kitchen. For some reason, when I’m on the internet, I have a tendancy to wander and search useless, stupid things, just because it’s more interesting than, say, my homework. Also, I find that I try to find as many excuses to go to the kitchen for a snack; to stop procrastination, I usually try to avoid that. But, my methods probably don’t work very well, ‘cuz here I am, Sunday night, answering many questions on Yahoo! Answers, and I have a lot of homework that I need to finish by tomorrow….