Stop making tomorrow the busiest day of the week.

Procrastination gets the best of us. It is all about consequences and becomes a habit. For example, last semester I would put off studying for my History exams until the night/morning of. Though you may think this would prove to be bad news for me, I would often receive an A or a B on the exam. Because I was happy with my grade, I didn't feel like there were any consequences to what I was doing and my 'last minute cram sesh' seemed to work for me. Why would I change?
Then I realized that I hadn't tried it the other way. You know....actually studying. So I decided to try it out.
I have to take about 2 or 3 quizzes on the computer in my Math 121 class. Studying for these quizzes would have been incredibly time consuming if it wasn't for the 10 minute technique. With the 1o minute technique, I broke up how long I would study for the quiz and set up a time I would actually take the exam on iCALANDER on my computer. I set up a series of ten minutes where I would study a section of my notes/book and then spend ten minutes on taking the exam. Within the ten minutes I would knock out a few of the quiz questions. I got to a question where I wasn't sure what I was doing so I took a small break and watched an episode of a TV show I enjoy. After the episode, I finished reviewing the chapter in about 7 minutes. This gave me the perfect amount of time to use the next ten minutes to finish the quiz. I feel that this technique really helped me. I am a Kinesthetic and Visual Learner so drawing up a study schedule really helped me focus and stick to a plan.
Chunking the Task is probably my favorite Anti-Procrastination method. It literally prevents you from procrastination if done correctly. In my religion class (REL 206), there is always a reading assignment for the week. I feel that sometimes I become overwhelmed. When I learned how to "chunk" my tasks, it all became easier. I started separating the amount of pages I would read in a certain setting. Monday night i would read 4 pages, tuseday I would read 4 pages and then wednsday night I would read the last 6 pages and write the one page paper I have to write every week. Breaking my assignment down made it so much easier to get my work done by a certain time.
Both of these strategies work great for people who are tying to get out of their habits of procrastinating.

Try it now....not later.