I need help. I'm tired of wasting Saturdays and other holidays. Every day I decide on what I'm gonna do but I keep wasting time watching youtube. I make the same excuses, realize I'm cooked at the same time, tries to comeback, fails again, go to bed with nothing done, and the cycle repeats every holiday I get. The thing is, most of the advice on how to stop yt addiction is for phones and pc (like blocking apps and stuff), but I mainly watch it in my TV. My TV doesn't have much storage to install any productivity apps, and even if I could, it would affect other ppl using it. The only thing to solve this is to change my mindset. I have to choose to not waste my time rather than limiting my options. I would still waste time doing nothing even if I had nothing else to do but study. Now how do I do that? How do I change myself so I will choose to do the better thing long term? It sounds like I just said the answer myself, but those thoughts themselves really don't work on me. Since any attempt at convincing myself to study is done by me, I always find ways to overcome them. And I end up doing all the work at the very last second. Pls help me since otherwise I'm gonna ruin my life
You are fighting yourself and losing every time. that voice saying "just one video" is quicker than the one saying "dont do it". try making the tv a pain to use, unplug it after you watch and put the cord in another room, or cover the screen with a jacket when you turn it off. its not about blocking it from everyone, just making it enough of a chore that your lazy brain goes "nah" before the habit kicks in
I can try unplugging the cord ig. Thanks!
You can waste your time on laptop, tab, mobile, ps5 instead. But don't waste your time on books.
Well, work on your mindset. Saying that it doesn't work on you becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, you are going into the battle already defeated in your mind. Yes, that does sound corny. But focus more on "it hasn't given any result yet but I will do until it does, which it certainly will sooner or later". Don't think that you can't, you just haven't found a good way yet. Then I would try to plan very short study sessions, some that you could probably do at home like review of topics or quizzes. And then of to the library or any other setting that isn't your own room. Put a couple of study options in front of you so you can always choose the least hard one if you don't feel like it. And you could always take a half hour to just read your books or materials. No notes, no deep analyze and no pressure. Just read it. Don't care if you remember it. Next day, try to review and recall what you read. Write down what you remember. Reread at the evening same material a d next morning try to add something to it. Slow but steady and better than nothing at all.
"it hasn't given any result yet but I will do until it does, which it certainly will sooner or later"
Thanks for that