Former chronic procrastinators, how did you change?

Future Bloomer · Oct 13, 2021

Procrastination and escapism are my life's biggest challenges. I have almost always let things for the last minute and this has led me to become a less than mediocre student and employee.

Are there any former major procrastinators here that were able to turn their lives around? How have you done it?

Future Bloomer · Oct 15, 2021

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Start small. No matter what it is, always start small. If you have a paper to write, just say you'll look for one paper to read. Don't even say you'll read it, just find it. Once you get going you'll likely find it far easy to continue going forward. If you don't, hey you did that one thing and that deserves some celebration. Seriously. A big reason that people procrastinate is because they've convinced themselves they can only feel like a winner if they do some massive project that always ends up seeming way too big, and then they just end up saying fuck it altogether.

Instead of beating yourself up for not doing enough or expecting yourself to do way too much that you can, you want to stack your wins. Do that small thing and honestly congratulate yourself. The more wins you stack the more you'll begin to see yourself as a winner, in which case you'll feel more confident to tackle bigger projects. You're building self-efficacy, the believe that if you try you can succeed.

Another thing is to start improving your life with small steps. Instead of trying to have the perfect day of super productivity on the very first day, just start on waking up at the same time every morning. You don't even have to wake up early. Let's say you usually wake up around 10 in the morning. Set your alarm for 10 and spend the next week waking up at 10. Every time you do that you are a winner. After a couple days set the time back 30 minutes. Having some sort of bedtime ritual for the last hour can definitely help you start feeling tired sooner, but the main thing is to just set your alarm back 30 minutes. Slowly go back to whatever time you feel you should be waking up at.

After that you start adding more habits or getting rid of other bad habits. Always start small, stack those wins, and within a short amount of time you'll be able to make big changes in your life with little issue. I used to be a horrible procrastinator who had issues getting out of bed on time. I'd regularly sleep 2-3 hours after I had planned to wake up. Now I can change my wake up time 3 hours earlier and I have no issue. You can absolutely get to this point too!

All the best.
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I'm definitely guilty of trying to over compensate the unproductive days by creating unrealistic To-Do lists that also never get done. I will try to build up on smaller victories from now on. Thanks for the knowledge man.

Quezatolah · Oct 15, 2021

Future Bloomer said: ↑

Procrastination and escapism are my life's biggest challenges. I have almost always let things for the last minute and this has led me to become a less than mediocre student and employee.

Are there any former major procrastinators here that were able to turn their lives around? How have you done it?
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Have rules and have consequences for breaking them, my rule is to study 2 hours per day by a certain time of the day, if I don't do it I'm not allowed to use my phone or the internet for the next 3 hours, going out doesn't count.

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