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Procrastination is a formidable opponent, and I have currently fallen under its might. I have renounced sleep for today because I've been putting off this project and now I'm doing it, and it's probably going to take me the whole night to do it.

I now seek advice from you on defeating this monstrous foe.

I think I'll reply to this later.

You can't fight it. Just give in and accept it!

Here's something you'll like:

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Here's something you'll like:

http://www.eskimo.com/~spban/creed.html

Nice.

However, what I'm looking for is reinforcements, not more procrastination!

Don't fight it...embrace it. Procrastinatinon is inevitable.

Procrastination is a lot like masturbation. It feels good while you're doing it, but in the end all you did was fuck yourself.

I suffer too :(

I keep saying I'll fight it, but it's never the right time..

I think I'll reply to this later.

You win. I'll get around to sending you your prize eventually.

I have a book called Overcoming Procrastination, but I've never gotton around to reading it.

Seriously though, the vast majority of humans have an inate tendency to procrastinate once their basic needs are met. You look at a chimpanzee that has eaten its full and copulated. It doesn't set goals and get things done, what it does do is sleep or play. It's part of our nature.

But just because we have a tendency to procrastinate doesn't mean we have to and we are almost always lead happier lives when we dont. I do recommend allowing yourself to goof off from time to time and not berate yourself over it. But there are several things you can do to stop yourself procrastinating.

1. Set rewards for yourself when you get things done, eg. food, games, masturbation.

2. Make a list of logical reasons not to procrastinate and why your life will be better if you don't procrastinate and explain them to yourself vigourously. Come up with excuses to procrastinate and then argue against them until you have convinced yourself.

3. Get yourself to do something for just ten minutes. Then get yourself to do it for just ten minutes more. Then do it for just another ten minutes. It sounds stupid, but you can trick yourself into getting a lot of work done this way.

4. Punishments. Set easy reasonable goals and then burn a five pound note each time you fail to achieve them. After you burn that first five pound note you proabably won't procrastinate again.

Procrastination is a formidable opponent, and I have currently fallen under its might. I have renounced sleep for today because I've been putting off this project and now I'm doing it, and it's probably going to take me the whole night to do it.

I now seek advice from you on defeating this monstrous foe.
Very simple. Plan in advance, then create a schedule, and STICK to it. It works for me. It's procrastination insecticide.

Simple. Plan to procrastinate, then when you procrastinate your plan, the thing you are not doing is procrastinating and thusly you will work.

And procrastinate sounds really stupid when you right it several times...

drink 5 cups of coffee, that should raise your stress levels thereby compelling you not to procrastinate

Every time your attention is diverted, hurt yourself.

I'm procrastinating right now. Sigh. I've gotten it from my mother.

It sucks.

I'm procrastinating right now. Sigh. I've gotten it from my mother.

It sucks.

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Procrastination is a formidable opponent, and I have currently fallen under its might. I have renounced sleep for today because I've been putting off this project and now I'm doing it, and it's probably going to take me the whole night to do it.

I now seek advice from you on defeating this monstrous foe.

Speed is your friend in situations like this!

Just take very, very small amounts and then you won't be able to stop moving, so get typing!

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Hmm. Did that not make sense?

I inherited my procrastinating tendencies from my mother.