[shortandcute]

I am taking online classes. I have an assignment due by 11:59 this Sunday night and is worth a lot of points. It has to be 7-9 pages long and I've hardly done anything on; I can't get motivated.

[Crazy Hitch]

Hi shortandcute,

Yes, there is nothing like assignments when we haven't yet started.

And I completely understand when you say you can't get motivated.

Do not worry too much for the "motivation" to arrive then.

In this situation I like to "just get started".

You'll find that once you start, you will be able to pick up momentum and keep going.

The more you keep going, you will become engulfed in what you are doing you'll probably have very little awarness of much else other than the task at hand.

You can do it!

[ManOfConstantSorrow]

Hooligan is in the right of this, and one way to start is to have a plan for the assignment so you can see clearly what you have to do in individual chunks, that way it does not seem to be so fearful. If it is any consolation it is much easier to write several pages than try and condense into 250 words as I have to do so much in my job.

[shortandcute]

I just went ahead and worked on my assignment and turned it in. I know I didn't do as well as I could have but at least it's turned in.

[Perna]

Remember this though, that you got it done. That might help next time you are procrastinating/worried. I found after so many years that I always got it done/turned it in so learned to turn off that little worry, just sigh and do it.

[ManOfConstantSorrow]

Originally Posted by shortandcute

I just went ahead and worked on my assignment and turned it in. I know I didn't do as well as I could have but at least it's turned in.

Sometimes we just have to get things done as best we can and as long as we pass that is good enough. You have acted wisely and maturely.