Block up the damn hourglass
31 August 2007, 1:38 pm. View comments. Filed under Internet, Personal.
... and freeze it.
I woke up this morning at around 9am, but I stayed in bed until 11.15am; that's me, the essential part of my daily holiday morning routine—waste my life like crazy. What did I accomplish? Day-dreaming for more than two hours, and I'm sleepy again.
Aside from sleeping, I figured I waste my 24-hours each day most intensively on the Internet.
After I woke up today, I turned on my computer. I click onto my daily forums through my bookmarks toolbar and I lurch on them for half an hour. I check my RSS feeds for any new updates and now I'm here. I just can't help having this love-hate relationship with the Internet. It's brought me wonders like friendship (online and offline) and leisure that I won't regret but I also have to blame it for eating hooga chunks of my life away.
I don't think I've been under-performing in terms of school work, I just think that perhaps I could've done so much better. I've always been leaving my assignments and exam studies to the last moment and still been able to manage reasonably well. Inevitably, I think that maybe if I didn't have the Internet and I spent my life like a nerd, I could've been a top student... And then what? Something for my parents to show-off to other people I guess. Or, I get to bask in my own glory. Is that the life I really want though? Even if it's not, I'm definitely not "living my life to the fullest" yet.
It's taken me four days to complete what would be a two-hour assignment. Ouch. I'm suffering something what I would call a minor epiphany and it's not a great feeling at all. I feel guilty. I wonder if other people are studying like crazy now? I wouldn't really know because the people who will read this blog and comment are very likely not studying like crazy at this moment. 
So what do you do to stop procrastinating? I procrastinate until I suddenly feel tired of procrastinating and two minutes later I want to procrastinate again. It's not working at all.
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In a perfect world time would stand still each time you spend time in front of the internet. I don't know what to do about the internet being so attractive compared to everything else when I know it's there. If you find a solution - please share.
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I've gotten so lazy this summer, I don't know what I'm going to do if I'm assigned a huge project when school starts. I'll probably just sit in front of the computer, and finish the project at the very last minute.
I remember that my seventh grade science teacher assigned us this project, and I saved it until the very last minute. Needless to say, I didn't get a very good grade on it. That shows that procrastination is bad (for me that is)! I know some people who work better under pressure though. -
Well, for me, school hasn't started yet (few more days), so there's nothing for me to study.
I really have nothing helpful to say about preventing oneself from procrastinating. I tend to procrastinate a lot, but I'm too scared to leave things till the last minute—-scared that something might go wrong, and I won't have the time to fix it. I guess that fear is what gets me going, lol. -
You know what? That's exactly the same with me. But old habits die hard, I can't even be bothered to regret.
As full time procrastinator I have no special remedies. It's all up to the grit of your determination. LOL, try to envision these A*s and what you get out of it. -
Bleh... I've been saying to myself ever since school started, "don't slack off, do well in school." But it's not really working so far... .__.; I've been so busy lately, but none of it has really been studying.
By the way, I like the new wordpress template! Very beautiful color combination -
haha, sounds like me. Days that I know I have nothing to do, I will stay up late the night before and sleep in pretty late into the day.
The only way I can stop procrastinating is (right now) telling myself that I will fail the class again if I don't try harder. That is usualy a good motivator.
Other than that it's just self control for me. :/
By the way. The photoshop class that I take is in college. I'm in my second year now. And to tell you the truth, I think I have learned more by myself from reading tutorials online than I will from this class. :/ It's still fun though. -
Lol, I'm a HUGE procastinator. Well, school starts in 6 days and I've only read 2 out of 3 books I needed to read, and I still have writing assignments to do. And still, I'm not working on it =(
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Lying is what the holidays is all about!! I'm not studying mega hard, I got all my work finished asap. I used to leave everything, not finish much, then did really bad in exams, so now I'm starting a new chapter, but I dunno how long it'll last.
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GPA in America is counted out of 4. A 3.8 GPA would be 5 A's and 1 B.
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Hah, I wish I could help you, but all I seem to do is procrastinate.
I spend about half my internet time on forums, and the other half commenting on random blogs etc, and then I wonder why all the work I PROMISED myself I would get done is still sitting in a pile on my living room floor.
I've never been one for studying all day, and I've always managed to get by quite well — it may not be ethical, but it's the way I work. -
Honestly, I start to crack down when I know I have to. I set my mind to finishing whatever it is I need to and just do it.
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Sleep sounds absolutely wonderful right about now but considering I am sick, of course it would ;) Goodluck with everything!
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May I say, that I agree with you 1000 and 5 percent!
I am a huge procrastintor. The internet seems to rule my life sometimes. I can relate to you in this blog entry very much.
What I've done this school year is try to limit time by not going onto the internet at all [not even touching my computer] until I a] either have completed all assignmets or b] have free time and it is 2 hrs at least before my bedtime.
That's another, I set a bedtime because I was losing some major sleep. :O
I hope it works, and maybe I've given you a tip or two? ha who knows but whichever, procrastinators' hourglass flows like a roaring river. xD
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What to do to stop procrastinating? Umm... I usually just remove all the connections to the internet or whatever is taking my attention away from what I am supposed to be doing. Then just trying to keep my will power strong until I get through with what I need to do. When I was in school I didn't do all my homework all at once. I did thirty minutes at a time with a thirty minute break. That way I didn't feel overloaded. I used a kitchen timer to keep me in time for each session.
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