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Lack of motivation..
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I'm really disappointed in myself. I have 1200 word assignment due in less then a fortnight, and I've hardly started - but where's my motivation gone
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its just so much easier to sit around doing nothing than work .. much like what im doing now in fact!
When I wrote my dissertation I found it easiest to set myself a per day word count target, I found this helped a lot. Even if it needs a lot of refining and editing at a later stage it is good just to get something down on paper.
Find a couple of things you want to do and limit yourself to not doing them until you've done x, be it read x book for written x wrods.
Motivation is something which happens at 11.30 the night before it's due in, isn't it?!
Thats what I thought too Only once or twice have I written something farther ahead than the night before and I got bad grades on them, everything else does good when its pushed out the night before! Why just tuesday night/wednesday I had to write 2500 words for wednesday evening on something I hadn't even read most of the sources for yet and do some database research. That one turned out excelent!
Come summer I'm going to try an independent study class which I'll probably fail just because there will be no deadlines!
I dunno how to motivate yourself more though.
It was a bag of shit. I did pass though... Perhaps I should start the work for the next deadline now? er, na!
I am 478 words in, 722 to go!
Eurgh!