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You just do.Let me explain.Procrastinating has cost me a lot in life, starting from missing out on scholarship deadlines to forgetting to wish my best friend a happy birthday. If there's anyone who have spent their entire lives researching, thinking, trying to figure out an answer to this question, it's me.You see, the problem with this question is that it assumes that there is some special, unknown technique to stop procrastinating — that there is some golden method hiding in the dark, a method that you can follow to achieve your goals, a method only known to successful people, a method waiting to be found by you.Assuming the same, I also went through dozens of self-help books on productivity, watched motivating films, heard hundreds of chilling inspirational songs, and read an endless supply of eye-opening answers on Quora to questions like these (after which I got that “today is the day” feeling, only to prove myself horribly wrong again).I did come across some lucrative techniques (which you might come across in the remaining answers), such as 'setting goals in the morning and following them throughout the day', or 'following a schedule of tasks in a timely manner', and even 'sitting on a chair and boring yourself out when you don't feel like working RATHER THAN engaging in entertaining distractions, and keep sitting until you've bored yourself out enough to get back to work'.Don't waste your time. None of these works. They might've worked for others, but they will not work for the askers of this question. Like me, you are in a state of life where You might be handed a method to fight procrastination, but you will eventually find a way around it. For you, if there are n ways to be productive, then there are n+1 ways to be just as unproductive.So here's the bitter truth: You are not a self-help book or a Quora answer away from turning your life around.So what could be the problem? The problem is that you're only procrastinating because you have not given yourself any reason strong enough to stop procrastinating. Stopping procrastination requires fighting a bodily resistance. Trust me, your body will NOT go through that magnitude of uncomfort without a reason.I know my answer's getting lengthy, but do bear with me through this short anecdote because I promise it will be worth it —This month I had admissions interviews with 2 universities; Princeton and Dickinson. Princeton is my dream university. Dickinson is just another college on the list. Before the Princeton interview, I remember spending an entire day in front of the mirror, ramming my brain through possible interview questions and answering them to myself. As for the Dickinson one, well it never happened. I remember my interviewer emailing me “Could you make it on the 23rd of November? Please confirm.” I decided to confirm next morning. 'Next morning' soon became 'today night', 'today night' again became next morning until I eventually forgot to reply. Actually, I did reply yesterday, but the email was no confirmation: it was an apology letter.You think you really want to get done with the tasks you've assigned yourself with, but you're still procrastinating? Think again. You think you have every reason to work hard and achieve your dreams, but still fail everyday? Think again.The problem with successful people today is that things just work out for them but when it comes to explaining why it worked out for them, they suck at it. They'd go on and on saying what odds they fought against or how disciplined they are, making us normies appreciate them and think that reaching that level is probably impossible which is why so few people manage to reach it. The situation is not that complicated at all! Cristiano Ronaldo keeps on saying “My only secret to success is hard work” which is why he is a role model to so many people, but stop and think for once: If CR7 was asked to deliver the same magnitude of hard work to writing a book rather than football, would he do it? I doubt it. If Mark Zuckerberg was asked to spend his time working on a history project while at Harvard rather than coding for Facebook, would he do it? I doubt it. At the end of the day, it's not hard work, discipline, habits, routine etc. that differentiates the productive person from the procrastinator. It is sincere desire. When you have found that true desire to do something within you, the other required aspects will play in automatically. When you have found that true desire and purpose, you will understand why this question does not make sense.How do you stop procrastinating? Simple. You just do.

This was not necessary.Stewart loved Galaxy Quest and is recorded saying as much in at least two places.First, in this BBC interview:I had originally not wanted to see [Galaxy Quest] because I heard that it was making fun of Star Trek and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said ‘You must not miss this movie! See it on a Saturday night in a full theatre.’ And I did and of course I found it was brilliant. Brilliant.No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful. And it was both funny and also touching in that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans.And also in this Times article:“Jonathan told me to see it. I said I didn’t want to see the piss taken out of me by Alan Rickman and the rest. He told me to see it in Santa Monica on a Saturday night. I did, and it was perfect, fantastic, one of my all-time favourites. They got it exactly right – that’s how it was, and the ending was right at the heart of the spirit of Star Trek.”Since the film seemed to be far more interested in imitating the original Star Trek though, I’d sooner wonder if any of that cast took issue with it.Tim Allen indicated that he became friends with William Shatner after the film.When I was in that Captain's chair I was not mimicking William Shatner, with whom I'm now friends because of this movie. I liked the way Yul Brynner sat in his throne in “The Ten Commandments.” I worked off of that. I studied that. Well, I rented the tape.George Takei is said to have said the following, though I can’t find an original source:I think it's a chillingly realistic documentary. [laughs] The details in it, I recognized every one of them. It is a powerful piece of documentary filmmaking. And I do believe that when we get kidnapped by aliens, it's going to be the genuine, true Star Trek fans who will save the day. ... I was rolling in the aisles. And Tim Allen had that Shatner-esque swagger down pat. And I roared when the shirt came off, and Sigourney rolls her eyes and says, "There goes that shirt again". ... How often did we hear that on the set? [Laughs]"Galaxy Quest is, in my opinion, a love letter to Star Trek and shows like it as much as it is a parody. It was certainly not malicious, and while many folks involved with Star Trek might have been hesitant about it at first, it seems like everyone took it in the good spirits and humor with which it was intended.

Let's say that you always procrastinate on getting ready to go out, and hence you're always late to every event.Now let's say that your father died, and his funeral was scheduled to be on the day after, at 8AM in the morning.You're there on time. And your little nephew comes up to you amid the funeral and asks, “Hey how come you're not late today, Uncle X?”Before you slap him to smithereens, just think about it: how did you manage to not procrastinate this time? Hmm… Did you follow some special technique to avoid the bad habit? Or did you use your emotions for your lost father to fight it?How to stop procrastinating?You just do.Let me explain.Procrastinating has cost me a lot in life, starting from missing out on scholarship deadlines to forgetting to wish my best friend a happy birthday. If there's anyone who have spent their entire lives researching, thinking, trying to figure out an answer to this question, it's me.You see, the problem with this question is that it assumes that there is some special, unknown technique to stop procrastinating — that there is some golden method hiding in the dark, a method that you can follow to achieve your goals, a method only known to successful people, a method waiting to be found by you.Assuming the same, I also went through dozens of self-help books on productivity, watched motivating films, heard hundreds of chilling inspirational songs, and read an endless supply of eye-opening answers on Quora to questions like these (after which I got that “today is the day” feeling, only to prove myself horribly wrong again).I did come across some lucrative techniques (which you might come across in the remaining answers), such as 'scheduling a to-do list in the morning and following them throughout the day in a timely manner', or 'breaking down large tasks into smaller ones', and even 'sitting on a chair and boring yourself out when you don't feel like working RATHER THAN engaging in entertaining distractions, and keep sitting until you've bored yourself out enough to get back to work'.Don't waste your time. None of these works. They might've worked for others, but they will not work for the askers of this question. Like me, you are in a state of life where You might be handed a method to fight procrastination, but you will eventually find a way around it. For you, if there are n ways to be productive, then there are n+1 ways to be just as unproductive.So here's the bitter truth: You are not a self-help book or a Quora answer away from turning your life around.So what could be the problem? The problem is that you're only procrastinating because you have not given yourself any reason strong enough to stop procrastinating. Stopping procrastination requires fighting a bodily resistance. Trust me, your body will NOT go through that magnitude of uncomfort without a reason.I know my answer's getting lengthy, but do bear with me through this short anecdote because I promise it will be worth it —This month I had admissions interviews with 2 universities; Princeton and Dickinson. Princeton is my dream university. Dickinson is just another college on the list. Before the Princeton interview, I remember spending an entire day in front of the mirror, ramming my brain through possible interview questions and answering them to myself. As for the Dickinson one, well it never happened. I remember my interviewer emailing me “Could you make it on the 23rd of November? Please confirm.” I decided to confirm next morning. 'Next morning' soon became 'today night', 'today night' again became next morning until I eventually forgot to reply. Actually, I did reply on the day of the interview, but the email was no confirmation: it was an apology letter.You think you really want to get done with the tasks you've assigned yourself with, but you're still procrastinating? Think again. You think you have every reason to work hard and achieve your dreams, but still fail everyday?Think again.The problem with successful people today is that things just work out for them but when it comes to explaining why it worked out for them, they suck at it. They'd go on and on saying what odds they fought against or how disciplined they are, making us normies appreciate them and think that reaching that level is probably impossible which is why a very few of us manage to reach it. Cristiano Ronaldo keeps on saying “My only secret to success is hard work” which is why he is a role model to so many people, but stop and think for once: If CR7 was asked to deliver the same magnitude of hard work to writing a book rather than football, would he do it? I doubt it. If Mark Zuckerberg was asked to spend his time working on a history project while at Harvard rather than coding for Facebook, would he do it? I doubt it. At the end of the day, it's not hard work, discipline, habits, routine etc. that differentiates the productive person from the procrastinator. It is sincere desire. When you have found that true desire to do something within you, the other required aspects will play in automatically.How do you stop procrastinating? Simple. You just do.