How on Earth does one stop procrastinating.

    I do not believe I've turned in even a single assignment on time this grading period and...gulp. My grades more than reflect that. How do I strong-arm myself into actually doing anything? I have zero discipline...please give me some way of Dealing with this tendency.

As someone who literally struggles with this I honestly have to like force myself to do it. If your like struggling with the part of like actually completing stuff bc you don't understand I just suggest doing it regardless wether its wrong or right because having a grade is better than having no grade or work on the classes you like first then move to the unfun ones after also if anything do the assignments that are due now for full credit then move to the ones that are late, I tried it the other way around last year and it genuinely made my motivation go down loll. But if anything you got thisss :D

just do it. don't think about why you dont like it or how much you dont like it, or what you rather be doing. just put down whatever you were doing and force yourself to do it

i recommend doing the hardest things first. as my mom use to say when i was a kid and precisely struggled with self-discipline, if you have to eat a whole pond of frogs, swallow the ugliest, fattest and most disgusting frog first and then the rest will be easier.

it feels great once you do get started and get things done:) best of luck!

PERSONALLY !!! i wasn’t able to do a single thing until i got medicated . i don’t know if ur disabled/disordered or not but if ur executive functioning is that bad there may be an underlying problem.. 

Now regardless of that.. i’ve recently been able to do more off my meds and part of that is from just starting super little . rather than saying ‘i’ll do it when i have the energy’ (which i likely won’t ever have or feel like i have) i’ve said ‘i might as well just do a little bit now’. it takes a while to get used to tricking ur brain into telling itself that but it’s worth a shot anyway #fakeittillyoumakeit

 sometimes i really do just a little, but sometimes that little bit is enough to kickstart me into doing a full thing. outside of that i also look up ‘pomodoro technique’ videos on youtube which are basically timers that let you work a certain amount which breaks in between. i’ve found those help me get into the swing of things. i also like to change my environment . if i can go to the library and work on one of those computers rather than my own it limits a lot of distractions.. (when i work on my own computer i tend to click of my assignments and onto other more fun things)

these are just some things i picked up after failing HS, dropping out, thinking there’s no hope, and then ending up getting my GED and getting all A’s . there is hope i promise 

Oh, I relate to this 100%. 

Long story short: Now I'm a 31 year old lady, and haven't been in school for a long time. I got diagnosed with ADD when I was 21, and when I got medicated my whole world changed. I don't know if you're in that boat, but I've been unmedicated for some periods even in my adult life, and instead of procrastinating school stuff, I procrastinate stuff like cleaning, cooking and other "boring" stuff. 

When I was in school, doing homeworks was almost "impossible", I did everything else THAN my homework. As an adult what have helped me doing what I need to do is to set up small goals for myself, like doing it in small intervals. For example: clean for 20 minutes, take a break for 10 minutes, clean for 20 minutes, take a break for 10, etc etc. 

Also, I try to "do one thing at a time". If something feels "too big" I try to break it down into smaller pieces. If you need to write a paper on a certain topic and to do that you'll have to read xx pages in a book, do research on the internet etc,  it might feel too overwhelming because you don't know where to start. I would try to break it down into smaller milestones. Like "if I start by reading the instructions for the assignment, then I open the book, read the first five pages". After that I take a break, then I would keep doing that until I feel like I can start the next task. 

I don't know if this makes any sense at all, but I hope you can find some kind of inspiration/help in it.