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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5700592" data-attributes="member: 21169">I'm a procrastinator. At 40 years of age it still gives me major problems in my life. I'm procrastinating right now.Here's some techniques I've found somewhat useful:1. Give yourself guaranteed leisure time. For example, decide you will stop work at 11am to do something you enjoy (such as play a videogame for 30 mins), whether you have worked well from 9am to 11am or not.2. Set yourself very specific, timed tasks. Instead of saying, "I must do more studying" set yourself a task that can be completed such as "Read chapter 12. 10am-10.45am.", or "Write 500 words of my dissertation. 11am-11.30am". The smaller the task, the better, up to a point. It needs to be small enough to no longer be daunting for you, hence causing the procrastination to kick in.3. Keep a fairly small to do list, again to avoid it being daunting. Score tasks off when you complete them. Reward yourself in some way for completing a task.4. Split big, procrastination-inducing tasks into small, doable ones.5. Plan your time.6. I find fixed deadlines, which one often encounters as a student, to be helpful, but this doesn't seem to be working for you.7. Start. Just get started, simple as. Once you're working on something, it doesn't seem as bad, and basic inertia keeps you going.</blockquote>