I have trouble with my school work due to procrastinating. And my anxiety always gets in the way. How do I get things done?

For personal experience I get anxiety because I’m procrastinating and it sets me behind. What helps is to just take one morning and have a power hour. Turn off everything so you can completely focus with no breaks for one hour. Just tell yourself “I will do this.” You will get it done. By the time you are done with the hour you will have gotten a lot done. Take a 10 min break and do intervals. You can get a lot done in one day. Power through and reward yourself after. But only if you did everything. It does not even have to be perfect but you will have a lot less anxiety about it. Once it’s done it’s done.

Getting things done is very hard, especially when you're going through that, but I'd recommend you to focus on what you have to do. Focus on your goals and in what you want, and if you dont have goals, set them up! Once you have that done, you should try and go to a room where you feel comfortable, don't bring your phone or any other electronic device with you, make it just you and whatever you have to do and if you lose motivation to do it while you're at it, think about why you need to get that done.

I am sorry you are dealing with procrastination and anxiety issues. A good way to deal with this is to make a time line and stick to it. Write down specific times to do things and put everything else away while you are working on it. It also helps to get things done as soon as possible (ex: right after an assignment is assigned, start working on it regardless of when it's due) This will help you get things done faster and feel more accomplished. A way to help with anxiety relating to procrastination is to write down a to-do list, this will help you visualize and plan the things you need to do, rather than letting your brain bombard you with all of the things you need to get done.

Believe in yourself and your goals never let anything take you down I know about the stress and I know about anxiety but you can't let them get in the way be strong 💪 you are good enough you are worthless and you are perfect you don't need to change for anybody. I know how hard anxiety is but don't give up and believe in yourself. Stop asking yourself "What if" Just Know You Are Perfect and sometimes things will go in the wrong way but keep strong and try. Never give up. I am proud of you and you should be

what helps personally are learning plans. Do not do all work at once. Get a calendar where you enter everything you have to get done and put you time to study and work in it (that doen’t has to be a long time, 30 minutes a day are enough. And don’t forget to leave you enough freetime) All that remains now is to stick to your plan. try to not be distracted during this time ! Work in a quiet place where you can concentrate well and where you will not be disturbed. Reward yourself when you get something done (you could, for example go eat ice cream, reading a good book, maybe drinking a delicious tea or take a walke) And last but not least, if you've done your best, the geades doesn‘t really mader. Be proud of you! You're great! Keep up the good work! Everything else will come with time. (:

I frequently experience the exact same thing, and what I do to combat it is fairly simple. All I do is attempt to put myself in my future self’s shoes. Do I want to be panicking at the last moment to get this thing done? No, I don’t, and I doubt anybody else does either. This helps provide me with the motivation to do the thing, because even if I don’t want to do it, I know I’ll want to do it even less when it’s nearly due and I won’t have enough time to do it properly. Perhaps it doesn’t work every single time, but it certainly helps at least most of the time, and I hope this method helps others too.

Well there are a few ways you can go about doing this. You can talk to your school counselor, a trusted friend or Teacher, a therapist. This has helped me and a few other people I know of. Trust me it will help you out alot. If you have trouble telling people like the words just wont come out then you can write down what's going on a piece of paper and hand it to them. They then can read it and speak with you about it and you can see someone.

It is so tempting to put things off, and it's amazing how many excuses we can find to do other things. And then it's easy for anxiety, for the "what ifs", to come in and make it harder to start. Taking a few deep, centering breaths might help, repeating a mantra such as "I am calm" or "I can do this". Then, set aside a small amount of time, say 10-15 minutes to start working might be enough to get you into the "flow". Once you're immersed in your work, you may be surprised by how much you accomplish!

I had the complete same issue as my intense procrastination caused me so much stress later on in school. It became a cycle of panicking about doing something so I’d put it off for ages, then because I left it until last minute I would become so much more stressed out. A lot of the time, I still ended up not doing it. As it came to the very end of the GCSE years, I basically messed the majority of my grades up due to the endless cycle of not caring enough to do it but also caring too much to the point where I’d think about it all the time. I eventually realised my solution of taking a whole massive scenario and breaking it down into smaller ones. For example, persuading yourself to get an essay started without thinking about everything you have to do would be simpler by just saying to yourself “I’m only sitting up”. Then, “I’m only walking over to my computer”. All these tiny steps in your brain will hopefully seem a lot less stressful to think about and you’d take baby steps along the way to eventually get things done. Like, “I’m only writing the first sentence”. Unfortunately, I didn’t realise that this helped me until quite late into my stress but I really hope that it helps you. I find it’s a weird thing to do but I guess you try anything you can. Breaking things down ended up at least settling my stressful thoughts down a little bit and ensuring my procrastinating side of me won’t see it as a massive task.

Just try to do a little bit at a time. I struggle with procrastination as well, and I know it can be very hard to work past. Try finding something that you enjoy that you can reward yourself with, and take a lot of breaks. Any progress is good progress! So if you're writing a paper, just sit down and write a few sentences, then take a break and do something that's more enjoyable for you. If you just return to work on it for a few minutes at a time, it will end up being done before you know it!