This is a practical question. I'm sure everyone struggles with procrastination, low energy, and general laziness to some degree, but it is really affecting my life. I'm struggling with it a lot at the moment -- unsure of what could be physiological (vitamins/nutrients/glands/whatever) and what is just straight-up self-sabotage.
I think a lot of people are amotivational because they don't really know what they want, but I have a clearly defined goal. In this instance, to get excellent grades in university. This is a goal for which I've already made sacrifices -- I've put other ambitions on the backburner (relatively crucial things like girls and music) to maximize my ability to focus. I've been largely drug-free since the summer and that has helped my ability to concentrate on reading, but not in terms of my ability to come up with concepts for projects and papers. Why can't I just plan my time effectively, work a bit each day, and not waste the last day looking at message boards 24 hrs before the assignment is due? And even now that I've been working on it for most of the evening, I just feel like giving up and going to sleep -- hoping the university will blow up overnight, or maybe asking for an extension, or just handing something really shitty in.
Has anyone been through this and conquered it (at least to a degree where your goals are not slipping away from you each day)? How do you make the worlds of achievement and psychological/physiological capability coincide more often? I'd be interested in how this applies to different fields too -- people who have learned a trade, or play sports, or make art, or whatever it is that you do.
I think a lot of people are amotivational because they don't really know what they want, but I have a clearly defined goal. In this instance, to get excellent grades in university. This is a goal for which I've already made sacrifices -- I've put other ambitions on the backburner (relatively crucial things like girls and music) to maximize my ability to focus. I've been largely drug-free since the summer and that has helped my ability to concentrate on reading, but not in terms of my ability to come up with concepts for projects and papers. Why can't I just plan my time effectively, work a bit each day, and not waste the last day looking at message boards 24 hrs before the assignment is due? And even now that I've been working on it for most of the evening, I just feel like giving up and going to sleep -- hoping the university will blow up overnight, or maybe asking for an extension, or just handing something really shitty in.
Has anyone been through this and conquered it (at least to a degree where your goals are not slipping away from you each day)? How do you make the worlds of achievement and psychological/physiological capability coincide more often? I'd be interested in how this applies to different fields too -- people who have learned a trade, or play sports, or make art, or whatever it is that you do.