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Lately I have had a million things to do, most of them I have had no interest in doing but have had an obligation to do them. I thought it might be good to hear how others deal with these circumstances.
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I work out elaborate ways to see it as my responsibility to do them. Once its a responsibility, I can do them just fine.
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hhhm....well starting these "things" (if thats what they really are) might be a good place to begin. You can finish them very efficiently if you never started them.
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This coming from a person who never does his homework. I'm supposed to be working on that this year. To me, if a student is doing well on the tests, why does he need to do extra un-needed work at home? It's just a waste of time! Posts: 1401 | Registered: Jun 2004
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Homework is not the only unwanted project but it is one of the worst. In the past I have had a really hard time getting homework done but I got better in high school. Now senioritis is kicking in and it is getting hard to stay motivated.
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Oh God! I remember the States in Alphabetical order becasue of this abomination of a song that they made us memorize in the fifth grade. Posts: 1401 | Registered: Jun 2004
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This is how I manage--most of the time. When you are overwhelmed with obligations, you take them one at a time. Do not attempt to multi-task. Multi-tasking only leads to burn out. Give yourself a certain amount of time to complete each task and then concentrate on only one task. Then move to the next task.
Make a list of what you must do. Prioritize it--which one is the most important and most pressing task. Do that one first. If one task is going to be time consuming, break it down into steps and put it toward the top of the list. Once you've completed a task, take it off the list.
If you can't complete everything in one day, come back early the next morning when you're fresh.
One last thing, pace yourself. Give yourself plenty of short breaks and then return to your task.
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As a senior in high school with NO idea where I want to go to college I know what you mean about the million things.
I agree that if you're overwhelmed the most important thing is DON'T THINK ABOUT IT. Just do one little thing. Then the next one. Breathe. Relax.
As a born procrastinator, I would hesitantly encourage the idea of all-nighters. There are schools of thought that beat them into the ground, but one really hard night of really hard work can for me sometimes be worth about twice as much as the same number of hours at a different time of day.
But don't go overboard on the caffeine, becaseu if anyone ever tells you that you can't get REALLY buzzed, messed up, paranoid, and shakey on just caffeine they've never had a real caffeine addiction. And one tends not to work well if one can't hold a pencil and cant focus thier eyes and cant forget about the maniac hiding under the bed.
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I had my first run in with large amounts of caffiene. I drank a pint of strong black coffee, and I was shaking all through the first half of the day.
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In college, when I had REALLY boring reading to do (really dense and dull sociology or somesuch), I'd give myself little rewards: I'd take a book I liked, and for every 2 pages of the dull sociology book I read and took notes on, I'd get to read 2 pages of a good SF book. (I was very good, and whatever SF book I did this with, I'd ONLY allow myself to read it in conjunction with studying.)
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No. It is the states in alphabetical order to a very stupid tune. There are lyrics inserted at the beginning and end for your listening pleasure.
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If I ever become a elementary music teacher it will only be to stop the teaching of horrible songs. I would expose them to the great classical music that might just catch their interest, and teach them music theory that might actually make sense to them. I honestly had no idea what they were talking about. They didn't tell you how all of the information fit together and it was annoying and confusing.
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I get the feeling that it all boils down to: pacing myself by setting goals, having rewards, and getting off of my ass and doing something.
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What's your past like? Maybe you can shape a bunch of little pictures like a rose window in a cathedral... Simply because I like those.
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I don't know how to discribe my past. This is for spanish so i have to have 10 sentences on there in spanish. Which means 10 items that I can talk about in spanish
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Albany, Atlanta, Tallahassee, Oklahoma City, Trenton, Nashville, Concord, Dover, Little Rock, Des Moines, Sacramento, Olympia, Montpelier, Jackson, Carson City, Juneau, Denver, Raleigh, Austin, Boston!
Providence, Topeka, Santa Fe, Indianapolis, Annapolis, St. Paul, Jefferson City, Honolulu, Baton Rouge, Harrisburg, Columbia, Augusta, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Salem, Madison, Cheyenne, I'm thinkin' Lincoln!
Bismarck Boise Springfield Frankfort Richmond Columbus Charleston Helena Capital Lansing Hartford Montgomery.
(Oh no! Oh no! Pierre! Pierre! We forgot Pierre!)
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When I have things to do that I don't want to, I try to break the task down into smaller parts, and minor rewards..
"I will get this much done of [project A] and then take a break and get a bowl of ice cream (or whatever reward you want to put in here), then do this much more then stop for awhile and work on [project B, which I want to do]" Type of thing.
It is interesting how different people like or dislike the same task. Such as a simple task like washing the dishes -- I don't mind at all doing the plates, bowls, cups, etc. But I detest washing the silverware. I hate it -- always want to put it off. So I either make myself do them FIRST, or I leave them for someone else -- who doesn't mind doing the silverware, but my hate doing the pots and pans (which don't bother me a bit). (this example is for all of you who, like me, have never had opportunity to actually own a dishwasher.)
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Did any of you ever have to make the cell from food? So that pieces of it represented the different parts of the cell. Well I just used my memory of that project to help me in a graduate level class. I guess it's amazing how those silly projects stick with you.
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