I'm a good coder, having a lot of interest to study new subjects in my engineering. Everyday I plan to study well from the next day...I start well too but ultimately I end up wasting my time. This repeats and I can't find any solution. Any suggestions?

I can totally relate to you as I faced similar problems when I started out. Here is how I solved it, Try finding a mini project/project in whatever you are learning that excites you and its something you can show off to your friends or family. Just to make it interesting tell them before you finish it that you are making so and so. This will definitely ensure you keep working on it and who knows you might eventually fall in love with it at which point there is no turning back

You should set yourself some type of a goal.   When you set out to "learn to be a great coder" it's too nebulous, there's no way to see if you're progressing or not.  For instance, why not try to do something more sensible?   Make a program in java with a gui that scrapes data from the WeatherUnderground API that works as a persistant desktop app.   From there you can port it to Android without too much work (switching Swing to Any of a million android window managers / platforms).  Keep building on it until you get enough experience to build something else you want. Think about what you'd need to learn to get that project done?  Http requests, web scraping, xml parsing, error handling, asynchronous request handling, multithreading, external library handling, documentation reading, file handling, Swing (and probably some AWT), Design - centric work, external api's,  and solving issues that arise with code you don't control.  It also gives you a great way to mark your progress.  If you start the day not knowing how to make an http request in your language of choice, and you end the day knowing how to, you made progress.  It will take time, especially if you work on top of this, but setting tangible, measurable goals is probably the most important task to becoming a "good" programmer.

Focus on small goals.  Keep your eyes on the immediate prize.  Try employing a time and productivity management technique.  For example, http://lifehacker.com/productivity-101-a-primer-to-the-pomodoro-technique-1598992730.  Most importantly, find a way to have fun working toward your goal.

I think you should try to learn related things, plan a small project where you can use what you learn. I was in your situation, just do it, you can not move forward without achievement. Also, you should work with some guys who interest your field, when you're lazy, you can see these guys works and keep moving. Hope that help.

Hi! If you feel like you are having willpower problems this book I've read might help you aswell. It is called The Willpower Instinct, written by Kelly McGonigall. I didn't do much research on her but I think she is a well known and trusted person amoung psychologists. She teaches at Stanford University.  The book itself is short, but it is very helpful. It is like a training plan for your brain, backed up with scientific evidence on how, why and when we tend to give up. If you read through you will become more selfaware and you will know a few strategies that will help you stay focused and you will be less likely distracted and won't waste much time.  Ofcourse reading the book won't make you magically a better person, and the book itself makes no such claims. If you keep practicing and paying attention to the things that are mentioned in this book, thats when you will start to make progress. If you wan't to run the marathon there is really no trick to except there are things you can do to make your training more effective, but this doesn't means that you don't have to train very hard. This is kind of like the Maxvell's equations of willpower! http://www.amazon.com/The-Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Matters/dp/1583335080

I was having the same problem. I was bored with corporate programming. I did two things. 1. I started a weekly programming meetup for others interested in learning programming. 2. I began to learn how to program micro controllers and started offering introductory classes. Knowing someone is depending on me to deliver something useful forces me to learn my topic well.  Programming is fun again. The best thing that has happened to me was being criticized for "having no passion" by a project manager on a project .