Why I (And Probably You) Procrastinate (continued)

......... (continued from earlier post) I'm a fan of video games and that they used to contribute to my procrastination years ago, but they haven't really gotten too much in the way in recent years. In fact, I don't think I've even played any of my beloved computer games in a few weeks. As far as TV goes, I don't really have any shows that I follow religiously and I don't have a TV in my room anyways. Clearly, the issue is more complicated than a mere technological distraction.
It should be obvious to you that I own and run this website. You may or may not know that I also own and run several other websites. I won't go into the details, but the point is that I have this entrepreneurial hobby involving websites that I have been developing and working on a lot recently.
But the final answer isn't that I am spending too much time on the websites and not enough time on the schoolwork because, let's face it, there is plenty of time to do both. Even if there wasn't, the obvious solution is to cut back time on the websites and put more time into the schoolwork. College is expensive and I can spend time working on websites over the breaks.

I would propose that the true
core issue that I have with procrastination
is similar to many other people and
that is my internal drive.

Everybody has desires, expectations, and goals for life, both short term and long term. It seems to me like I have two highly competitive short term objectives: my website stuff and my schoolwork. I view my time spent on websites as beneficial to me by providing me with useful and real-world entrepreneurial experience, allowing me to teach myself unique skills that could come in highly useful in the future, and giving me something enjoyable to do that I can hopefully evolve into a truly profitable hobby. In comparison, I view my time spent on schoolwork as beneficial to me by teaching me straight academic knowledge at a high-quality institution (with high prices to match, unfortunately), preparing me (not for the real world but) for future work in academia both as an undergraduate and as a graduate, and helping fulfill the requirements that allow me to sound impressive with a fancy degree in my hand in a few years. Clearly, these two descriptions are biased but there is no way they can't be given their nature. (At least they encompass my honest views about the subject.) At this point, the question of why appears to be answered by the fact that I (or at least part of me) feels that the time spent on the websites is more beneficial to me than the time spent on schoolwork.
So now the question comes to what is the solution? Should I change my major to better suit my website/entrepreneurial interests? Should I simply drop out of school and try to become an internet consultant of some kind? These sorts of fixes seem to me like they'd only just treat some symptoms instead of going at the true cause of my procrastination. Also, they don't coincide at all with my long term goals in life.
As vague as it sounds, I think that the best way to address the heart of the issue is:

I have is to remind myself what my life
goals are, both short term and long term.

Procrastination is more than just getting distracted by something and accidentally forgetting to do your work.

What it comes down to involves one's true
thoughts about who they are and what they
want to do with themselves and their life.

Upon consideration of these points, one may gain a better perspective on the situation allowing them better control over how they spend their time.

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