Hey everybody, haven't posted on this forum in a while, but right now I am in strong need of advice.
Right now I'm on the college track by choice, because I believe the classes and curriculum I'm taking correspond with my vision for the next 10 years of my life. I'm studying Software Engineering and I definitely understand the concepts, and I believe taking classes has helped me get on the right track. My end game goal is to have the skill to rapidly create software solutions in the form of apps, web systems, or whatever the market is in need of.
I desire to do what it takes to be successful, I really do. But even on a productive day I feel like I'm hardly getting 50 percent of what the successful version of me would get done. I've stopped the social networks, stopped the video games, stopped anything conventional that gets in my way. But somehow I still get off track.
However, I see so many students who surpass my productivity and still have fun at the end of the day and it's quite discouraging. And these are community college classes, so I'm 'supposed' to be doing better. I have the intelligence to excel in my studies.
I would love to get the show on the road already. I don't have any strong selfish motivations for money right now. I don't want to relax. I don't play video games, I don't watch TV, I barely spend any time at all on Facebook. I truly just desire to create useful software, but I am aware that I currently don't have the discipline to direct myself. My mind somehow always finds a way to be unproductive, no matter how hard I try to eliminate them, I will find the nearest one. Keeping attention is something I have always struggled with.
What I ask is
1. What do you do to keep yourself from getting distracted?
2. Any ideas on how I can become more disciplined in order to meet the goals I already have?
3. Has anybody ever been in this pair of shoes before?
4. Tips on how to develop stronger motivation?
I'll be looking into this a lot myself but any advice is strongly appreciated. Thank you so much and hopefully we can make this topic relevant for anybody else with similar struggles.
Right now I'm on the college track by choice, because I believe the classes and curriculum I'm taking correspond with my vision for the next 10 years of my life. I'm studying Software Engineering and I definitely understand the concepts, and I believe taking classes has helped me get on the right track. My end game goal is to have the skill to rapidly create software solutions in the form of apps, web systems, or whatever the market is in need of.
I desire to do what it takes to be successful, I really do. But even on a productive day I feel like I'm hardly getting 50 percent of what the successful version of me would get done. I've stopped the social networks, stopped the video games, stopped anything conventional that gets in my way. But somehow I still get off track.
However, I see so many students who surpass my productivity and still have fun at the end of the day and it's quite discouraging. And these are community college classes, so I'm 'supposed' to be doing better. I have the intelligence to excel in my studies.
I would love to get the show on the road already. I don't have any strong selfish motivations for money right now. I don't want to relax. I don't play video games, I don't watch TV, I barely spend any time at all on Facebook. I truly just desire to create useful software, but I am aware that I currently don't have the discipline to direct myself. My mind somehow always finds a way to be unproductive, no matter how hard I try to eliminate them, I will find the nearest one. Keeping attention is something I have always struggled with.
What I ask is
1. What do you do to keep yourself from getting distracted?
2. Any ideas on how I can become more disciplined in order to meet the goals I already have?
3. Has anybody ever been in this pair of shoes before?
4. Tips on how to develop stronger motivation?
I'll be looking into this a lot myself but any advice is strongly appreciated. Thank you so much and hopefully we can make this topic relevant for anybody else with similar struggles.
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