New answers tagged procrastination
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There is no use attaching any tags and names to this behaviour. If you are asking this to decide, should you blame yourself or not - don't blame yourself no matter how you call it.
More constructive questions is: "Does this behaviour indicate anything? If yes, should you do something about it?"
First, why you suddenly decide to go to sleep? Maybe it's time ...
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Not necessarily, it could be considered as being some downtime - an extended break from your work. Also, it is a good way to maintain your natural body rhythms, which have longterm benefits.
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Keep a bottle of water near the bed.
Then when you wake up, sip the whole bottle (usually around 0.5 to 1l) and you'll get a burst of energy that will wake you up.
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Have something that it is really worth getting out of bed for. Think about that thing before you go to bed.
For example, if you really like video games, go to bed 1 hour earlier and then allow yourself 1 hour playing first thing in the morning.
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If any of the other answers fail for you because you ultimately go back to bed because you are tired, try this. It may appear extreme, but it works.
put a loud persistant alarm in a bin safe in your room
lock the safe and put the key in your car
drive your car around the street to the end of the corner
set a quieter alarm 5 minutes before
The idea is ...
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After being hour late to my job for the fifth time in a row I invented a simple game that helped me a lot. maybe someone will find it helpful as well.
You will need: an alarm clock and a friend.
before going to bed i set up my alarm clock 5-10min earlier that required.
i left my room and asked my flatmate to hide it somewhere without me knowing where.
in ...
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Some ideas that help me:
Use multiple browsers.
I use Opera for personal stuff, it has all my personal bookmarks for everything I'm into. Then I use Firefox for work. This way I can separate my email (I use gmail in both cases). Not having the browser (Opera in my case) open at all then help me only look at work related stuff in firefox.
Use multiple ...
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It's because you're impatient, lack discipline and want to hold on to your current perception of the world because you find it pleasurable. This isn't a bad thing! It just means that you have to have very good reasons as to why you should turn your back on your current reality, to embrace another.
You're like the over-weight person that initially gets ...
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RescueTime is a brilliant tool for automatically tracking where your time goes while on the computer. Pair that with our own Beeminder and you can enforce limits on yourself. You can authorize Beeminder to read your RescueTime data so no data entry is needed. Beeminder will just let you know when you're at your limit and will actually charge you money if you ...
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Um, so I happened to have already outlined an old system at http://productivity.stackexchange.com/a/3054/2382, but it's pretty relvent here...
I'd like to be able to get up early, but I don't really have anyone to
be accountable to for this. So I advertised on gumtree (I think
craiglist is the equivelent in the US) for someone who was also
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Give Zed Shaw's Hard Way series a shot -- you just start typing.
http://learncodethehardway.org/
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Sounds like you need a tool to restrict your internet access. Check out StayFocusd extension for Chrome or LeechBlock extension for Firefox.
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A quick way to limit damage from getting sucked into unproductive things (general, I don't know what you are specifically referring to) on the internet (if it occurs in the evening) is to schedule an automatic shutdown at a specified time. When your computer shuts down, it provides an opportunity to snap out of what you're doing and try something else.
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Well I have two approach's to overcoming any addiction or habit I want to curb...
First, (Which only works if you have self discipline) the problem is your productive behaviors are getting compromised by your more enjoyable behaviors. Set yourself a rule (write it down) on how much distraction is allowed, if you violate that distraction you punish yourself ...
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The first step is realizing that you feel like you have a problem. Whatever your happy time is, you find that it has taken up a significant portion of time that you would have otherwise wanted to use for other things. Don't become bored by what your doing, and literally stop yourself when you see that you are doing other things. A big portion of this is ...
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There's a classic article from Harvard Business Review that talks about tasks as monkeys. They're kind of cute and cuddly, and you feel kind of lonely if you don't have enough of them around. But if you have too many of them at feeding time and don't have enough bananas to go around, watch out, you're in trouble! See ...
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