May 2010
18 posts
Painful #2
4:12pm Here I am again. Work completed since this time yesterday = exactly, er, seven minutes? I slept from 11pm to 1pm, and not too sure what I’ve done - well from 2-4, it’s browsing lots of internet, rationalizing: “I can’t start quite yet, I just need to take a little break, I just want a little entertainment, take a break, I’m not happy enough to start...
Painful
Alright. It’s one twenty three on Monday, and because I’ve been at this computer lab for 60 hours now (NOT kidding) and STILL haven’t finished the Introduction and Methods that I was supposed to hand in 37 hours ago (YES, I REALLY don’t know what I did with my time since then) I’m going to keep a log. Of everything I do, in ten-minute intervals, until I’m done....
http://timesheet.clockbeat.com/auth.php/print.php?s... →
I AM GOING TO KILL THIS. I AM GOING TO DOMINATE...
My Quiz Results
Usually a Procrastinator
You rank in the top 10% in terms of procrastination. That is, when it comes to putting things off, you often do so even though you know you shouldn’t. Likely, you are much more free-spirited, adventurous, and spontaneous than most. Probably, your work doesn’t engage you as much as you would like or perhaps you are surrounded by many easily available and much more pleasant...
FOCUS ON THE TASK AT HAND. YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO...
Things to do every day
visualize yourself pushing through that tough stomach feeling
read ten minutes of the proc book
when you are AWARE that you are procrastinating, think of something easy that you could start doing.
(PUSHING THROUGH THE RESISTANCE TO STARTING A TASK...
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I convince myself that I’m ‘just going to [check web site, reader, etc] for (five, or ten, or until the next nth of the hour).’ But it’s like ‘just one bite’ – it’s almost NEVER true.
I really need to get better at limiting my impulse control when it comes to the internet. Reading that article about the middle schoolers quitting the internet for two days sort of drove home the point for me; it’s a bit like eating sugar, in that it just contributes more to my sense of scatteredness and feeling out of control.
note for saturday night/sunday morning
restart at sugihara and warner, p. 332: These lower income men might have been displaying dominant behavior, includin
Guidelines for restarting
1. DON’T LET YOURSELF DO ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE YOU START! REMEMBER THE DISTRACTION MANAGER.
2. LISTEN TO MUSIC. U2 station on Pandora is good, or Manu Chao station.
3. Read the quotes on this page about MENTAL POWER.
4. Start an easy task if you need to, then go on.
“JUST KEEP GOING. THIS WILL GET BETTER AND BETTER THE MORE INCREMENTAL WORK YOU...”
“I NEED to stop myself from going into mental fantasyland.”
“I can MAKE myself concentrate better through sheer force of will.”
“It doesn’t matter how you FEEL. Just make yourself do what you set out to...”
FUCK my dissertation
This is a blog about the hell of completing my dissertation. In hopes that I can soon change the name to FINISHED my dissertation!