overcome procrastination

have managed to keep pretty well on target today – every time my focus slips away form work I’ve managed to pull it back.
stitching back and forth between projects has helped keep me going

I send a big chunk of my work day looking at news sites and rss.

My plan is for the next 101 days to do the following:

Only look at news/blogs/rss whilst having my breakfast, lunch, or for a max of 20 mins when I get home.

soooo hard… It happens all the time when I need to contact someone new. But today it went reasonably well – first decided to enquire for the call center job before 10 am, then postponed to do it in the afternoon on the way back from the bank, then postponed it for tomorrow, then on the way back from the bank (and with hesitation) went in anyway. Sooo happy I did!

My mother always used to say to me “never put off for tomorrow what you are capable of doing today”.

It’s so true. You only get one shot at life on this planet, so don’t blow it. Remember this: you cannot buy back yesterday not with all the money in the world. Today is all you’ve got, so make the most of it.

I thought this was interesting…
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=procrastinating-again&print=true

does not exactly feel like progress…
Finally made an appointment with a new dentist this morning, after months of frequent toothaches. Going on Friday.

Why am I so stubborn when it comes to doing anything I need to do? When it comes down to work, especially homework, even though it may be a fairly easy assignment or whatever it seems like I would rather do ANYTHING else. I don’t understand myself!

Well today I studied and took notes from my history book. My history test is on Wednesday so I have 3 days to study. I have 2 chapters I have to study for. I studied My 1st chapter today and I’m going to study my 2nd chapter tommorow. I feeling really pumped about finally getting rid of my procrastination.

This is really, really, desperately, necessary THING TO DO for me!

I don’t know how can I just procrastinate that much and in that big time lapses and I know it will cost me lots of wasted time but I keep on doing it (like homework assignments or buying stuff from the market etc.)

If someone knows how can I overcome this disease that surrounds me (yeah, its a disease when you get an E or C when you don’t do your homework just to watch some video on YouTube or post an entry on your blog – which, trust me, takes long because when I write entries (which is once or twice a week) it takes hours and hours and I almost never leave it for later – as for the real things I need to do – no, sir I just leave them as unimportant) I will be really really grateful to him if he just responds to this thing I REALLY NEED TO DO!

STOP PROCRASTINATION!!

I have the hugely annoying habit of endlessly procrastination; I put everything off until it really, really have to get done. But then, at the very last minute, I work day and night and get it done.
I’ve tried setting personal deadlines, but that has never, ever worked. My mind just knows when I really, really have to and when I just feel I should. Still, procrastination has always worked for me, in school and university, because there’s always been a real, set deadline to work towards. And I’ve always done really well in the end. I work well under pressure.

Now however, it’s more difficult. I’m searching for a job and so have to set my own deadlines; when to email, when to work on the CV, when to call. There’s no real pressure to sort this by a particular date and that makes it very difficult. I clean, I cook, I do laundry, I buy food, I do whatever but I do not apply for jobs. Not as much as I should anyway. Argh!
To be honest I’m scared of rejection – I applied so much before the summer and barely got an interview, now I doubt whether I can really get a job, whether anyone will ever want to employ me. Despite knowing that when I do get a job, I’ll work day and night to do well if I have to. And when I do get started, I tend to gain momentum and work really, really hard.

How do I overcome putting everything off? And gain back my trust in my own abilities? No one will ever employ me if I don’t believe in myself…