Procrastinators Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from chronic procrastination.
Clear my Exam ( Toughest exam & Very Important for my life )
I took off from my Job so that i could prepare for an exam for the betterment of my life, but due to procrastination even after 1YEAR i yet to complete the exam. Now I lost my Job also. I have to clear this exam and then look for a new Job. I know i have necessary skills to prepare for the exam, only problem is i am procrastinating indefinitely. I will update here daily at the end of the day, about what i did, how much productivity i really gave in for my preparation.
I use to procrastinate by browsing, reading unnecessary stuff not related to my preparation, watching movies, videos. So the first step i did is listed down necessary websites for my preparation plus few others suchas mail, this forum links and added them to my antivirus software. So my antivirus does not allow any other website other than those listed there, which is password proctected with a password that only my girlfriend knows. The same i did for all the movies and novels in my computer, protected with a password that only she knows. So basically i don't have any other procrastination activity to do other than sleeping. I am completely locked down myself for this preparation, so no disturbance from friends other than speaking on phone. The only person i can see is my girlfriend who is very supportive for my prepartion so she won't be problem. Let's see how things move on from here. Hoping for good. Praying for good.
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DAY 20 10/04
Q - Advanced strategies
SC - Revised strategies + 5
DAY 19 09/04
Hardly studied for 3 hours
Feeling very hard to start again (procrastinating) after a set back of yesterday's illness.
DAY 18 08/04
I am not well. I slept the whole day. I took medicines feeling better now. Hope will be fine by tomorrow. I could have used 2 or 3 hours. But still i was hesitating to start as the whole day is lost.
DAY 18 07/04
DAY 17 06/04
Q - 14 problems -done + 9
DAY 16 05/04
I concentrated only on one Section CR - Strategies + 25
Total Study Hours :8hours ( excluding any other activity )
Congratulations cojerc!
What a fantastic effort! You have set us a great example of turning things around.
Thanks findingaway . Thanks
Thanks findingaway
. Thanks for the encouragement. Will Pray to the higher power for the days to come.
DAY 15 04/04
DAY 14 03/04
DAY 13 02/04/2012
DAY 12 01/04/2012
DAY 11 31/03
good job, cojerc!
Thank you movingalong
Thank you movingalong
BEING COMPLACENT - HELP NEEDED!
DAY 10 30/03/2012 - I did only half of the work that i could have done.
Analysis of the days since i started this journal
Day1 - I did well
Day2 - I did well
Day3 - I did well
Day4 - Only 1/2 day was productive
Day5 - Only 1/2 day was productive
Day6 - Only 1/2 day was productive
Day7 - I did well
Day8 - Only 1/2 day was productive
Day9 - I did well
Day10- Only 1/2 day was productive
If i analyse for the 10 days, 5 days are productive & 5 days are only 1/2 productive.
I am seeing a pattern here. I get complacent that i have studied a lot & i get relaxed.
Though the disturbances were external, all are such that i could have studied putting those disturbances off. So i am suffering from complaceny. Any suggestions or advice will be very useful.
I have decided from now on, to analyze every week. I will take off on Sunday as a rest from my prep to relax my mind, because one cannot focus on studying 7 days a week. I will count from Monday to Saturday and analyze how many days i am productive in a week. I should aim for 6/6. Besides this if anybody has any suggestions, kindly advice.
re: being complacent
i would like to help you anyway i can. But i'm not sure exactly so i'll just share my experience and we will hope and pray that thru the wisdom of this fellowship we will all get better.
first, i know the feeling very well. many, many, many times have i buckled down only to succeed, pat myself on the back, let off on the pressure, and procrastinate like crazy.
For me this happened many times and was a big part of how i came to accept "step 1" (meeting materials upper left). So many failures just led me to believe that this was not going away anytime soon.
In fact, cojerc, now that you mention it, i have been wrestling with this problem lately. I still feel deep down in side, even after being part of this fellowship for 4 years, that i'm just going to get over this and it's not going to be a problem anymore. So today while things are going well i checked-in here, to remind myself that i am still the same person, and my problems / temptations are likely to return soon.
IIRC your 7.5 days out of 10 of productivity is better than it was. Perhaps much better? So it is important to give yourself credit for that. To consider the alternative.
I am much better than i was. That is definitely true. I have 2 years of performance review at my work where they did NOT say "improve productivity" or something like that. After 10 years in a row with something like that on my review. But--i'm not cured. Still weekly, often daily, i have bouts of procrastination. I just wasted a whole day Mon this week, even tho it's been months since the last time i lost a whole day.
so what am i saying? i can't quite get myself to say "dont shoot for all 6/6" because i know i feel in myself that that's what i want for myself. I still shoot for that.
I guess what i'm saying is that for me accepting repeated failure and trying again has been key key key to my recovry.
Work IM...gotta run.
fall down seven times, get up eight - japanese proverb
being complacent
Hi Clement,
Thanks a lot for the sharing. It is sometimes good to hear that i am not alone in the struggle, so that we can work towards the problem collectively.
I agree and accept that i should really give credit to myself for 7.5 days, because earlier it used to be hardly 3 or 4 days out of 10. I much better
I completely agree on the last line "Accepting failure and trying again and again" which is analogous to Your Quote "Fall seven times, get up eight"
and journey's
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
i like it.
fall down seven times, get up eight - japanese proverb
re: being complacent
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re: just getting over it
Yeah. It would be nice if we had a revelation, saw the error of our ways, and suddenly we just didn't procrastinate any more. Instead, recovery from procrastination means that we work every day on replacing bad habits with good ones. Sometimes we stop working on our habits, backslide and have to climb back up again. Do we ever get to a point that it becomes second nature to 'just do it' and not have to think about and work on it every day? If so, I'm not there yet!
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
being complacent
Hi Journey,
Thanks a lot for your comments. I understand sometimes we fall back, but we should get up and start climbing again.
Do we ever get to a point that it becomes second nature to 'just do it' and not have to think about and work on it every day?
I too have question based on the above question.Is such a day is ever possible in our life time provided being on the recovery diligently?
DAY 9 29/03
I completed what i planned on my studies. But i feel i could accomplish even more than that. Will try harder and find out how much really i can accomplish in a day, with more focus.
Net was down so couldn't report on time. Apart from my studies am still procrastinating on other tasks. But happy that am not procrastinating on my studies, which is ofcourse more important than others. But still i will try to overcome procrastination of any activity.
DAY 8 28/03
DAY 7 27/03
Q - 14 problems
SC - 14 problems
RC-1
CR - 14 problems
I was able to consciously study for most of the time. Overall am happy about what i did today. Hope this entire week goes well.
DAY 6 26/03
NOT A PRODUCTIVE DAY.
STARTED PRETTY WELL, LATER I WAS FIXING A PROBLEM IN MY COMPUTER, THAT TOOK ALMOST MY DAY, BUT IT WAS NECESSARY. FELT BIT DISAPPOINTED. PRAYING HIGHER POWER SO THAT I CAN FINISH MY TASKS WITHOUT ANY INTERRUPTIONS.
DAY 5 25/03
Till Noon i was able to make use of most of the time.
After Noon i took off from my prep, to just get relaxed - Watched a movie, spend time with family.
DAY 4 24/03
I Planned to do 7 tasks, but ended up doing only 3
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I HAD A VERY SLUGGISH MORNING DUE TO LACK OF SLEEP THE PREVIOUS DAY.
THAT IS THE REASON I COULD NOT ACCOMPLISH WHAT I HAVE PLANNED FOR.
HERE AFTER I SHOULD SLEEP AT THE RIGHT RIME TO MAKE MYSELF FRESH ENOUGH.
DAY 3 24/03
Finished the book, that was pending from yesterday.
Did 10 problems, analysed and learnt new takeaways from it.
Read strategies for Reasoning problems.
Did Jogging
Did Yoga
I used most of the time in the day. Happy for that. Praying for the same for tomorrow.
Yay cojerc!
Congratulations on developing this strategy to combat procrastination, and congratulations on 3 good, productive days!
Thanks a lot Mollie
Thanks a lot Mollie
22/03 - DAY 2
Planned to finish a book of 250 pages, read 178 pages, happy that i was able to do this. I did use my time effectively without wasting or procrastinating. I am happy about today. Hope the same for tomorrow.
21/03 - Day 1
Today is the first day and it worked, i could say a good productive day after a long time. But i always had one productive day followed by 3 or 4 unproductive days. Let me see how this goes on. Hoping for the best. I almost finished my 'Daily Check in List' except for one task that i am still doing. I am happy for what i did today. Praying god i should not get any external interruptions.
Welcome cojerc and congratulations on your new start!
You have made a great start. Hope Day 2 goes well too, and all the very best for your exam preparation.
Hi
Hi Findingaway,
Thanks for the wishes.