I’ve researched every technique possible to achieving great grades, but I haven’t even put most into practice. I have such a bad Internet addiction that I just don’t feel like studying. Even motivation for the future doesn’t help. How can I achieve effective & stern self-discipline?
#1 by Julia on October 1st, 2011
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you have to have the motivation and the will to change or its pointless trying to. if you do not want to do your work then any plans to change will fail. you have to work out why you can’t be arsed to do your work and why you don’t care about failing
#2 by Mathias Baudtler on October 1st, 2011
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Self-Discipline is not something that can be “Studied” or “Learned” it is something that you have to agree with yourself about.
Stop spending all your damn time in front of the computer and get studying. See it this way, if you don’t study – You won’t have an education for a job later in life, and then you can’t afford internet..
Try to turn off your internet when you get home and focus on homework for as long as you can.
#3 by Bob the Deluded on October 1st, 2011
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they have programs which deny you access to certain sites at “work times”
they also have other programs which deny you access to the internet entirely.
I suggest you look them up apparently they have been used with some success.
#4 by Marcus on October 1st, 2011
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I would recommend that u find a way to ‘get bored of the internet’. Once you have nothing better to do, studies seem more interesting.
#5 by Leonidas on October 1st, 2011
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I have the exact same problem hah.
You should ask your doctor for adderal, just say you have trouble focusing in class and your really fidgety, i think thats what im goin to do. adderal will for sure help you
good luck
#6 by SuperPiccolo on October 1st, 2011
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A: Become a repressed robot that knows how to take study orders
B: Stop studying, be free and study at your own pace.
#7 by Ash on October 1st, 2011
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It’s like this, if you don’t sincerely want it, it isn’t going to happen. For me the best example is quiting smoking. To a smoker smoking is a down right need, and i’m saying this as a smoker. Until i had an actual ‘need’ and sincere desire to quit, i would never have left the habit. Now days i still smoke, but very rarely as it is simply not what i want in my life. All aspects of discipline are similar to this; if you have no genuine need to move from the desirable to the more responsible then you probably won’t do it. It’s all to easy for me to jump to “techniques” as i am an advocate of selected varieties of meditation and such, but really this is about intent. Simply ‘wanting’ to change who or how you are is not enough. You must accept that you are who you are, and you want what you want; responsible or not. One of my favorite quotes comes from Albert Einstein, though it was him quoting someone i cannot remember, “a person can do what they want, but they cannot want what they want.” On the other hand, if you truly seek to alter your behavior then this is a matter of your genuine desire that will ultimately come to alter you of its own accord. I hope the best for you, but, sadly, perhaps you need to reevaluate your life. Are your expectations higher than your actual lifestyle desires? Many people get in over their heads where study is concerned. Maybe such a lifestyle just isn’t what you truly want out of life. Or, if it is, then you need to come to something of an “alcoholic’s rock bottom” before you really realize what you are giving up. Either way, this sounds like a matter of understanding yourself. What do you really want? It’s your call; no one else’s. Good luck.
#8 by cda6590 on October 1st, 2011
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I have the same problem. And although I’m not studying nearly as much as I want to, I still manage to keep straight A’s. The best method that I’ve found was to go to my school library. I head to the top floor where there are only like two computers. I just sit at a desk without a computer and study. If that isn’t an option, try turning off your computer or even unplugging the ethernet cord/disabling the wi-fi. Although you’ll still be able to reconnect, you’ll probably get online less often as you won’t be tempted to get on the internet simply by one click.
#9 by Pushpa Selvam on October 2nd, 2011
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Try to use the internet for your studying,It will help you in your study at the same time it will make you feel some thing doing your work .
#10 by Kim L. on October 2nd, 2011
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Self discipline is considered as one of the great instruments that can be enhanced to achieve just anything. Research states the “80-20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity. 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.”
In order to guarantee success at every trail we must learn how to improve and strengthen the different key targets to our self. The ingredients to this is self discipline, to learn how to contol different aspects: actions, thoughts, words, etc. The Need/ Motive which actually involves what you really want to accomplish, Perseverance and of course your Goals. Can’t do any of these because of your addiction? Well you’re not alone because I too have gone through that.
You can also get a self help book.I recommend “Unleash your Full Potential by James Rick” http://www.fullpotential.com/about-james .I was once looking for a self help book when somebody online recommended me to read his writings.I say,I never got bored reading the book.
The purpose of the Full Potential Philosophy is for living life at your best: physically,mentally,spiritually, socially and financially.It teaches you the things you need to enhance I mean the areas you need to develop and how you can be productive.We need to have deep understanding about ourselves before we get our full potential.Life is temporary. Your existence – at least on Earth, has a beginning and an end. This fact urges you to be efficient about how you use time.And that what leads you to be productive.Especially you’re wanting to lose weight and live a health lifestyle.