http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/mwxfi/lpt_request_how_to_procrastinate_less/
Go do your homework. Read this at 01:30 when you're trying to wear off that coffe you just had. I use several of the strategies listed in this thread (reward system, get off reddit, reward with reddit...). Here is what works for me, and I've noticed a gradual improvement in the last 3 years. It takes time and practice, and you'll fall on your face over and over again, but you can do it. The most productive people I have ever met do so with great effort. My dad is a huge procrastinator and I learned early on to put stuff off. I also see first hand every time I see him how it cripples him every day. Attack this like what it is, an addiction. Get a good nights sleep. It doesn't have to be 8 hours, just make it the same amount every night. Weekends/Weekdays. Sleep is important for everything but most importantly it helps you think rationally instead of emotionally. Be rational. Be consistent. Start off the day by accomplishing something simple. I make my bed. Every day. No matter how late I wake up. Its my way of reminding myself that I'm going to get stuff done. It takes an extra 35 seconds and if your already late its not going to matter. Don't let unimportant things go undone. I do my laundry every Saturday morning right after making my bed. My laundry is folded and hung every weekend before I go to bed on Sunday because if I don't do it I'm telling myself that procrastination is okay. Laundry is not an urgent task, so make it one. Procrastinators are habitual, you must replace that habit with a habit of aggressive accomplishment in every minuta. Find something that puts you in the mood to do what needs to be done. Silence, candles, music, tea, coffee, shoes, favorite sweater, birthday suit, whatever. Realize that you have control and that you are making the choice to not do your work by simply not acting. Inaction feels like its not a choice but in reality the choice is still being made and laziness about making the choice is the dictator. You are in control. Don't take so much time off on the weekends. Instead of relaxing for both saturday and sunday call saturday a work/school day and get up on time and work for yourself for the 8 hour work day. There are 112 waking hours in a week. You're either working or in school for 40-50 hours. What are you doing with the rest? Thats 62 hours of time to attack. If you're in college you're approaching winter break. You'll have >112 hours a week ALL TO YOURSELF. Don't settle back into old habits. Just start. Seriously. I find that I'm most hindered by the worry about what will happen when I don't get it done. Think rationally. (sleep, remember??) There are only two possibilities here: You get it done or you do not get it done. [for homework or other intensive task] take breaks in the moment. A short 10-15min break every hour gives your brain a rest and allows things to settle and sort of whirl around in your brain as they so please. But go back to your homework after 10min. Use an egg timer if you must to enforce both the start and the end of the break time. It took me until my senior year of college to learn this, learn it now wherever you are. Take breaks in life. I take wednesday or thursday night off and go space cadet and watch tv for 3 hours. And Sunday afternoons too. Its important to have balance in your life, this balance is an example of order. People often think of procrastination as something that happens when you try and do homework or some other responsibility. That isn't wrong but it isn't fully correct either. Procrastination is a habitual lifestyle and you will not overcome it in the moments that matter until you overcome it in the minutia. But you can overcome it. You have the choice in front of you. Who is going to make it? You or your laziness? You're in r/LPT, so you probably approach life with logic. Use that brain! Now...back to my homework...