> Hello, my name is Sosiqui, and I'm a procrastinator. And I can't figure out how to stop.

I'm gabby, and I'll share the Thoroughly Unhelpful Advice.

Teach's method is excellent advice normally, and the sort that people gave to me for the same problem. I hope you find them workable. That divide-and-conquer plan for homework (and other work) quickly drives me past frustration to the point of irrational fury at the project. I can't use teach's advice, but the advice I can follow naturally enough came from another good teacher.

She told us (the class) that the typical good study skills wouldn't help us at all if they didn't match the way we thought, and that, to be most effective, we should arrange things to match the way we work. As her example, she insisted that she was an intransigent procrastinator and was completely unable to change. Therefore, she deliberately arranged her schedule so that she had a good block of time just before her deadlines in which to work, and she made triply sure that she had more supplies than she could reasonably need in case everything went wrong. Thus, when she did procrastinate, there was no panic or undue stress involved. In my case, I tend to dwell on the same ideas at considerable length, so anything else gets pushed farther and farther back in the schedule, if it happens at all. The way I get classwork done, then, is to do it all at once (or as much as possible at a time for large projects) *immediately* after it has been assigned. If I don't start immediately, something else is guaranteed to interrupt.

So, humph. If you think vague advice is preferable to no advice, then you're welcome. If vice versa, then it's not my idea.

gab"If everyone's advice fails, could you just give in completely and procrastinate on your procrastination?"by