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Beating Procrastination
« on: July 13, 2011, 10:10:17 AM »
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2011, 10:38:06 AM »
Um, I'll read it tomorrow.  ;)
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2011, 11:14:17 AM »
I can't think there's a person alive who doesn't suffer from procrastination. All good advice in the article, especially breaking tasks down into manageable chunks which is something I consistently struggle with.

Talking of self-improvement, I bought a book the other day called The Slight Edge which I'd recommend. As always with these things it's full of pretty much common sense, but I do agree with the philosophy behind the book that simple disciplines taken over time is the only road to success (in whatever field of life you aim to improve).

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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2011, 11:50:11 AM »
>>The Slight Edge

Super repetitive though.

Super repetitive though.


Super repetitive though.


Super repetitive though.
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2011, 12:12:48 PM »
Mai oui, but then most of those kind of books are. You can normally sum them up in one sentence. The Tipping Point - everything has a tipping point. Outliers - work for 10,000 hours to become great at something. Etc etc. Doesn't mean to say you can't take something from them though. Problem is when you end up having a library full of personal development books and don't act on any of them.

For us slightly cynical Brits, this is probably more apt...  ;D

http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2011, 04:15:50 PM »
I am not looking for ways to avoid procrastination - I need to do it more.

It is a crucial part of my strategy for 'enjoying life' - if I succeed, I will die happily leaving thousands of nasty tasks undone :)
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2011, 04:21:11 PM »
I suffer from this too...as I'm sure most do.

I try to eliminate distractions as much as possible.  I found myself going to FB when I was procrastinating, so I deactivated my account.

I find that getting organized and making lists helps me to stay on task.  Sometimes.

Sometimes I just need someone to kick me in the a## and say get the f### to work
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2011, 04:40:26 PM »
Two things that I find help -

1. Go for a walk sometime during the day for an hour or so.  It is much easier to work problems through without a computer sometimes.

2. (as it says in the article) turn off text and email alerts, just check them when you want to rather than when it beeps.

I still suffer from it though.  Too much information is part of the problem with this game.
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2011, 05:17:47 PM »
UKGimp procrastinates like the best

I don't understand just do stuff cause it's fun...if it's crap then just accept it is and forget about it

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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2011, 06:47:17 PM »
Quote from: 4Eyes on July 13, 2011, 04:15:50 PM
I am not looking for ways to avoid procrastination - I need to do it more.

It is a crucial part of my strategy for 'enjoying life' - if I succeed, I will die happily leaving thousands of nasty tasks undone :)

This insight came to me learning to program in Scheme, which has no loop structure and needs to use recursion for everything. It taught me that efficiency demands putting off the actual difficult part of the task until the last possible moment.

Otherwise, I found this pretty good. Everyone reading this should watch this video before doing any more actual work

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tke6X2eME3c
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2011, 07:50:18 PM »
I must must must have ambient music in the background, and if possible, through sound reducing headphones.  The music cannot have words or any type of real melody that I can hear.

And coffee or Focalin.
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2011, 08:40:04 PM »
A thread on another forum, a guy was asking for inspiration. He finally got to where he wanted to be when he made 1.2k in a day. Supposedly last month his best day was 44k.

His inspiration?

"Do it f###ing Now" that's what I started doing, I literally printed it and sticked it on my monitor, each time I got onto computer, I read this and I start doing something..
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2011, 09:21:47 PM »
Drastic

That must have been a gradual thing?
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2011, 10:16:59 PM »
OP: 4-18-10

$1.2k day : 7-7-10

44k day: 7-17-11

Looks to be a blackhat social spammer, fb & twitter. Normally I would expect an ebook or method for sale within the next week or two (all bs to start with), but that would be one helluva long setup.
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Re: Beating Procrastination
« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2011, 06:20:48 AM »
Dras, can youj send me that link?
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