I am a 20 year old community college student. I have only been attending for a couple months. I graduated high school when I was 19 and put off attending college for nearly a year after my graduation. A lot of things happened between my graduation and now, including watching my grandma pass, getting my heart broken BAD, and then falling in love with the girl I am currently with. Throughout a lot of my childhood I struggled with ADHD, focusing, and quite a lot of other problems (a little bit of mental abuse from my father). Because of that, about after I started junior high school I developed a horrible habit of literally never doing any sort of work because of my mental health state. I would literally just go home nearly every day and play video games or do literally anything besides my homework. Whenever I try to do any amount of work, with the exception of paid work from my place of employment, anything and everything around me immediately becomes super interesting and it is just so insanely difficult to divert my focus towards academics. It is currently 8:00pm and I have math homework due tomorrow as well as a four page essay and presentation due Tuesday. If I get a bad grade on my presentation and essay I will risk losing the class. I already have had to take my math class over again because I failed it due to laziness.
I love my girlfriend to death from the bottom of my heart and I promised her that today I would actually get some work done, but yet again I find myself in front of the TV playing a game. I am trying to focus and start working but literally everything is distracting. It's so strange, I want to begin working and get everything finished but literally everything diverts my attention away.
What are some techniques that productive people use to get out of this headspace? How do I actually motivate myself to do something important? I want to actually be productive and not a lazy pile of shit but I always seem to find myself doing the exact same thing over and over again.
Submitted September 30, 2018 at 08:25PM by keepmovingon69 https://ift.tt/2QjVU4o
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