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Re: dealing with procrastination We all slack off now and then.  The thing you must do is sit with yourself and really be honest.  Ask yourself "am I okay?"  Really put your pride aside and explore what you can do to tackle this thing. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/p

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Re: dealing with procrastination @30Don't get me wrong.  I have a few blind friends who are capable, etc.  It's not that there's not something there.  But when you go actively try to socialize with blind people, good luck finding anything where the emphasis isn't on blind.  Big difference

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Re: dealing with procrastination @camlorn: it's possible to hang out with blind people without it being about blindness . NFB seminars are exactly the kind of thing you mentioned. Going on adventures together in which blindness is relevant only because you're both navigating with the same

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Re: dealing with procrastination @26the positive social situations thing is well-understood psychology.  that's not unique to you, though I don't have the research on hand anymore because it's been a  long time since I went through that phase.Also to you and anyone else who tries

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Re: dealing with procrastination I'm a freshman in high school with ADhd, and I really, really have a hard time with doing things on time I just, can't focus. During our meetings I zone out, get distracted etc, and then am very confused on the assignments. I managed to pass last quarter

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Re: dealing with procrastination Like, you know how I released a bunch of stuff in 2010-2011? That's because the fall 2008 - spring 2010 semesters were the only time during my college experience that I had easy access to pleasant people and activities on a regular basis. That fell apart

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Re: dealing with procrastination Like, you know how I released a bunch of stuff in 2010-2011? That's because the fall 2008 - spring 2010 semesters were the only time during my college experience that I had easy access to pleasant people and activities on a regular basis. That fell apart

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Re: dealing with procrastination You need to get at the underlying cause for your thoughts, your behaviours and your lack of motivation. It is very, very rare for a procrastinator to be entirely truthful when they say "I dunno" when asked why they put off a task. There's alm

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Re: dealing with procrastination Yup. Same boat here. At the moment I have to do a powerpoint on the effects of exploiting resources, I had to fill and write a Spanish form, make a YouTube video, and I had to do a group project where we had to do an advertisment, and well, the group I

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Re: dealing with procrastination fuck high school URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/582008/#p582008 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: dealing with procrastination I have no doubt about it.  But what I've learned in life is often our best isn't enough.  We need to do the teacher's best, or the boss's best, or well, you get the idea.  It sucks doesn't it?  But when you tackle this thing that's holding you back you

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Re: dealing with procrastination i’m doing my best URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/581914/#p581914 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: dealing with procrastination I procrastinated back in high school for many personal reasons.  As has been said, high school doesn't give you much of anything for life.  All it did for me was cause feelings of dread.  However, and you won't like this, you need to get through it.  Push

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Re: dealing with procrastination I don’t think I have that. I can concentrate on other tasks but when it comes to mandatory things it’s kind of difficult at the moment URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/581905/#p581905 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: dealing with procrastination @18I mean, it is possible that this entire discussion turns into "O I had ADHD" you know. Or something of that ilk. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/581903/#p581903 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@

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Re: dealing with procrastination @17 I will do my best to get help. I emailed somebody at my school just a couple minutes ago and I’m waiting for a response to see what I can do. And my chosen field of study is computer science as I can actually focus on subjects relating to it. The short

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Re: dealing with procrastination @14The way college works is that your grades in high school determine how many scholarships you can get, which is the difference between paying a few thousand dollars a year or going to college for free including having your food payed for.I can't speak

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Re: dealing with procrastination camlorn wrote:Alternatively it's that modern high schools in many countries are effectively combination prisons/day cares, where we send you for over 8 hours a day so that your parents can work, then send you home with homework to "prepare

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Re: dealing with procrastination do you guys know what goethe said?I always think of it those days."“I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity”  (goethe)that shows my sentiment twords homeworks and school in general. I dk exa

Re: dealing with procrastination

Re: dealing with procrastination do you guys know what goethe said?I always think of it those days."“I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity”  (goethe)that shows my sentiment twords homeworks and school in general. I dk exa

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Re: dealing with procrastination @13can I still make everything up even in my final years of high school? The thing is because of the pandemic we are in online school right now and there are no letter grades. It’s just either pass or no pass. I am doing most of the work right now but I’m

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Re: dealing with procrastination @11You're going to need to do better than d.  Colleges are kinda okay with c.  But d and f as your average for the semester put you at the back of all the lines and D is basically as bad as F.  I don't know what you want to go to college for, but depending

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Re: dealing with procrastination I didn't experience quite the same procrastination issues in high school, and there were bits of high school I actively enjoyed, but I think Canlorn is pretty spot on here.You being a junior in high school means that your brain isn't even fully developed

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Re: dealing with procrastination @camlorni’m in America. I have two classes giving me more assignments  wile asking us to write essays and that kind of thing. I just want to get through this year and senior year so that I can go to college. Sadly my grades haven’t been the best but I

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Re: dealing with procrastination Very much agreed. High school is stupid. Most of what you learn isn't relevant in the real world. And half the shit about the way they want you to do shit isn't even enforced in college anyway. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/581737/#p581737

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Re: dealing with procrastination Alternatively it's that modern high schools in many countries are effectively combination prisons/day cares, where we send you for over 8 hours a day so that your parents can work, then send you home with homework to "prepare" you for the futur

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Re: dealing with procrastination Jayde wrote:So, let's take a bit of a dive into this.In your post, you talk about a "lack of energy". Is this physical as well as mental? Do you have any underlying health conditions which touch on this at all? If so, are these health

Re: dealing with procrastination

Re: dealing with procrastination So, let's take a bit of a dive into this.In your post, you talk about a "lack of energy". Is this physical as well as mental? Do you have any underlying health conditions which touch on this at all? If so, are these health conditions appropriate

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Re: dealing with procrastination I don't have a cure for procrastination. Instead I have a damage control method called an all-nighter. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/581727/#p581727 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: dealing with procrastination @3.LMFAOOo URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/581691/#p581691 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: dealing with procrastination If nothing else works, there's always pure existential terror. But from the sound of it, you probably need to be older before "I procrastinated and there goes my roof" is a viable anti-procrastination strategy.This is only half a joke, becaus