5 things pulling my performance down

Its not easy to specify the things which you are battling with, and the problems that you are not able to deal with effectively. The objective of this post is to list down these issues clearly and work upon it.

1. Deprived of Concentration: Staying concentrated on something has never been my strongest point but its affecting my performance big time now. A typical example of this is--I am reading some stuff related to my work and all of a sudden, I will jump to one of the blogs on gmat. I will start reading soemthing there and then I will remember that I am supposed to reply to that mail.
2. Delayed completion: Oh well, this could have passed out as a headline for some post too but lets leave it for another time. The second problem that I am encountering is that I never finish what I have started. It's affecting my studies, my work and other activities of my daily life. I will take something to 95% completion but just wont complete it, and will let it hang out there till such time as it doesnot become super-duper urgent.
3. Damn too much of planning: Oh yes, I also suffer from this. Once in a while, I get these fancy ideas, which I will quickly translate into one of those fancy looking excel sheets with timetables, colour-coated columns, details of to-do list on almost hourly basis, and a promise to revisit this sheet and keep a proper check. I am sure I must have nothing less than 10 different formats of what I intend to do. And it does not always restrict itself to work and study, it also includes the daily walk, exercise 4 days in a week, finishing one week every book, getting to know someone in my workplace, diet, habits, newspaper reading etc etc. Whuff! I am plain tired listing all the crap that I keep on dumping in these so called excel sheets (my panacea to heaven).
4. Dithering attitude: Why can't I keep on studying for half an hour that I have planned? Why can't I get up in the morning on time and not put the alarm on snooze or stop altogether---when I have promised myself that I will wake up on time? Why cant I stick to a decision and not dither midway? Why?
5. Distractions: Oh, you decided you will study for a good couple of hours or you will read a book. And there God conspires against you and send you some little distraction from somewhere, which you cant seemingly overcome. It may be going out for a movie, an interesting program on tv while you just happen to flip some channel, you remmeber all of a sudden that fantastic junk food sold around the corner of your street, an urge to drive and listen to some music, an old friend who you haven't called for a long time, that address change that you need to do so that your magazine reaches you on time, that packet of groceries lying somewhere in the kitchen that you haven't sorted and stored properly. And I can go on and on.

But you know guys, whats the only medicine to cure these 5 'D's. Well, its another 'D'.

DISCIPLINE.