I want to quit playing video games for a month!

[JARSHAR]

I play too much games when I'm suppose to study for exams and meet deadlines. I binge on the games because I'm too afraid to actually do work.

How can I quit playing video games for a month? Most of my friends play games. I get tempted into playing games when I play with them. :(

[Nephilim]

It is not possible. If anyone tells you otherwise they are lying or out of touch with reality.

[Tanya Degurechaff]

agreed

Originally posted by supermegasupermega:

It is not possible. If anyone tells you otherwise they are lying or out of touch with reality.

[TheFergmiester]

Honestly, it won't achieve what you're hoping it will. If you're afraid to actually do work so you escape into video games, then stopping playing the video games won't make you do the work ... you'll just find some other way to waste time and procrastinate.

There's no way around this other than just manning up and knuckling down on the work.

[Flopolopogus]

There is one way.... you must become addicted to anime and spend your time doing that instead muhahahhaa muhahahahaha

[Traya Tyto]

1. Stop paying for internet.
2. Cut the line.
3. Smash everything with a screen in your house/whatever you live in with some blunt object.
4. Go live with Amish.
5. Stay away from the ones with 21st centry teck.


Or you can do what most sane people do and do what you need to do first and play the games later.

[Aztekka223]

Originally posted by Master of Valhalla: School.:

1. Stop paying for internet.
2. Cut the line.
3. Smash everything with a screen in your house/whatever you live in with some blunt object.
4. Go live with Amish.
5. Stay away from the ones with 21st centry teck.


Or you can do what most sane people do and do what you need to do first and play the games later.

Or You Can Get A Life And Go meet with friends

[Rubik748]

^
But since all said above are hypocrites, you can always lurk the forums.

[Flopolopogus]

Nah i watch 1million times more anime then i play video games im not a hypocrite

[grounded in reality]

make a system where you mark down every time you finish your homework
with checkpoints
at every checkpoint
have a prize or something
that should help

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Just get away from it all.
Go to a spooky hotel with the whole family, then focus entirely on your work.

And don't try any procrastinating by writing "all work no play makes Jack a dull boy" all over the walls, it didn't do Jack any good either.
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Or you could just start learning, read the damn boring books, and then be done with it.
I used to work half a year ahead on things at school, just so I'd have more time for gaming.
Yeah, it takes time to do all that stuff, but if it's done now, that means there's more time later for whatever the heck I want to do.

[Gamingdaemon25]

i quit playing around the end of september and did not play for 3 months straight because i was taking a college course. it recently ended and i played for the first time in 3 months last week.

[E3kHatena]

I took up creative writing to curb how much time I spend playing video games. Get yourself a writing program (Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, Apple Pages, etc.) and write. Write a novel. Keep a journal. I started this back in the Summer of 2011 and have written over 100,000 words since.

[Kami]

hmm how about multitasking? :P nah just kidding xD the only way is buy a new cheap laptop and ask someone(maybe a friend?) to admin lock so you can't download steam to play and then get to studying on it without touching your gaming pc...

[earthprime163]

uninstall steam. your limited only by your own will-power.

[Sinister]

You need to get your mind around the importance of your job and all. If it's the thing you wanna do you will regret letting that down. I know the fear of doing things, I push them on and on too until I have no other choice but to do them, but I still try to do what I do as good as possible because I really don't want to end up sleeping under some bridge. And most of the time when I do unloved things that just need to be done I realize that I feel a lot better when they are finished. I can literally feel the weight of them taken off my shoulders. That's why I try to do some things at least so I can sort of tap one of my shoulders at least.

And extensive gaming gets dull quickly. If you do something for too long, even gaming, it will lose it's appeal and you forget the worth of it. Playing after a day of hard work often actually feels better than starting the xth overtired marathon hour on some prolonged weekend. That is why I am trying to take more breaks during longer gaming sessions.