When I'm racing to meet a writing deadline, I feel a sense of exhilaration, momentum, and flow. How can achieve that state on a regular basis so I can make steady progress on my writing?
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posted by incandescentman
on Feb 27, 2013 -
17 answers
If I feel like I "have" to do something, or that I'll get something out of doing something, I immediately lose interest. How can I learn to enjoy tasks for their own sake, even when I know that's not why I'm doing them?
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posted by jumelle
on Sep 15, 2012 -
9 answers
Strategies for getting things done, especially when those things are deeply important, pretty scary, and you have no idea how to start.
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posted by lizifer
on Feb 21, 2012 -
19 answers
A person actively avoids doing what he knows will make him happy. He just
doesn't want to do it. Psychologically, what's going on here? And more
importantly, perhaps, why
should he do what he doesn't want to do? What arguments, appealing to
either his reason or his emotions, might he consider?
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posted by Busoni
on Jun 29, 2011 -
37 answers
When I'm not in school, I feel like my life has totally dead-ended. I'm starting to think that stress and anxiety are the only things that motivate me. How do I stop delaying (and being terrified of) reality and finally become a real (adult) person? The details inside are super long, and I apologize for them in advance.
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posted by timory
on Dec 29, 2010 -
17 answers
Interested in finding a personal organization system like
Getting Things Done, only NOT geared towards middle managers from the late-1990s.
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posted by Afroblanco
on Dec 20, 2010 -
18 answers
How to Be Awesome and Finish a PhD? I'm in my first term of an engineering PhD (post-bachelors and 2yrs working in industry). My work is sucking: I don't do enough homework or research. How do I get back the drive I felt in high school when I was a clueless single guy who felt he had to prove he was brilliant?
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 20, 2010 -
8 answers
I'm finally on my own and liberal arts school should be the place for me. But I'm still approaching my coursework from the standpoint of "how little can I do and how late can I do it and still not utterly fail," and it's making me hate myself.
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posted by randomname25
on Nov 21, 2009 -
22 answers
Teach me how to study, please? I am 29 and going back to school to complete my BA. I haven't been to school in around 4 years. I don't think I have ever studied for anything.
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posted by mokeydraws
on Jul 21, 2009 -
22 answers
I'm a terrible procrastinator. I have an idea for a solution, but it requires other people. Does this sort of thing exist?
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posted by Dec One
on Dec 4, 2008 -
12 answers
How do I get over my laziness, procrastination, and foot-dragging in my office job?
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posted by nevers
on Jan 31, 2007 -
32 answers
I hate all forms of work (hence the anon. post) and the only way I've found to finish papers etc. is to stay up all day and night procrastinating until the last possible instance writing a bit here and there--an agonizing process--until, as the last chance deadline aproaches, something takes shape. These papers are usually final papers and usually earn me between a B+ and an -A... which is probably why I never learned how to do work in a painless and organized fashion... at any rate, I have two papers due on the same day and no chance of an extension on either one and am incapable of forcing myself to work. WHAT DO I DO?
posted by anonymous
on Dec 10, 2004 -
55 answers
