Personal Awareness And Responsibility: What do you do to help yourself when you are feeling a bit discouraged about your work?

For me I usually realize that if I do it now, then I wont have to worry about doing it last minute and get stressed. I used this strategy while I was working on the WW1 podcast assignment, we were getting off task and I realized that it is due the next day and that was the only we had to work on it in class, so we got it done in a good amount of time, stress free. By doing that, we got a mark that we were both proud of.