I think you just have to do it.  All learning is painful and frustrating, but worth it in the end.  Prepare for a couple weeks of frustration and for slow, gradual progress.  Also, tell your friends and family that you love them before you switch. You certainly won't after!  :)

Good luck!

Just do a double check on the strength of your WHY behind your motivation before beginning.  At the speed you already type in Qwerty, the source of your motivation is going to need to be very strong for the amount of frustration you are going to feel going cold turkey.  You will learn why Shai who created Colemak put so much weight on the idea of making the transition from the Qwerty the lesser hell possible that he could discover.  You probably learned touch typing as kid to go that fast with Qwerty and so have completely forgotten how you learned or what frustration of learning you went through.  You might check out some of the posts by those in the forum that have learned Colemak but made an effort to retain and did their Qwerty skills as well, you might not want to throw that skill away if it's not necessary to learn this layout.

I ripped this off a typing course site ( http://www.typing-lessons.org/preliminaries_2.html ) and it is probably the best statement of what you will have to discipline yourself to follow if you want to learn in the fastest most efficient manner.   The same principles of learning I have seen expressed by great piano teachers as well.  If you don't force yourself to take baby steps initially, you will regret it.  You have to learn it cold at each stage before moving on so that speed with accuracy will come with time. 

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Here are the most important things that you, as your own self-coach, must always keep in the forefront of your mind. Please take them to heart; these points are CRITICAL.

No mistakes. Always be sure and in control. Follow the principle of 100% correct practice: to make a mistake is to learn incorrect things, and to confuse that which you already know.

Slower is faster. Speed comes from certainty. The more you type things correctly, no matter how slow it has to be, the more certain you will be, and the faster you will become a proficient typist. Increase speed only when you feel sure enough to do so.

Don't look at the keyboard! If you don't know where a key is, look at the keyboard to find it, then look away and type the key. Do not guess; always be sure.

Relax. No unnecessary or dysfunctional tension!

Hit the keys squarely in the center. If you find you aren't consistently doing so, SLOW DOWN!!! It should feel good to type!

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wussboy- I have a feeling I'm going to be really grumpy after switching, like you said. thanks for the encouragement!

keyboard samurai- I have to switch to something smoother and more effective (which the QWERTY keyboards are not). I also hit the capslock button quite often which is quite annoying ESPECIALLY when your typing at the speeds I am I'll be done with a whole sentence before my brain realizes that the caps was on the whole time. Its just a bothersome thing that I add to the basket of "why I hate QWERTY".

I also believe in 100% accuracy i have a habit of automatically hitting the backspace key when a mistake is make. I had a teacher in the second grade who tried to tell us to type without the backspace and would physically remove the key from are keyboards. I topped out in that class at 30 WPM, but once I started teaching myself I was able to hit 60 WPM at around 3rd grade. Those rules
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"Here are the most important things that you, as your own self-coach, must always keep in the forefront of your mind. Please take them to heart; these points are CRITICAL.

No mistakes. Always be sure and in control. Follow the principle of 100% correct practice: to make a mistake is to learn incorrect things, and to confuse that which you already know.

Slower is faster. Speed comes from certainty. The more you type things correctly, no matter how slow it has to be, the more certain you will be, and the faster you will become a proficient typist. Increase speed only when you feel sure enough to do so.

Don't look at the keyboard! If you don't know where a key is, look at the keyboard to find it, then look away and type the key. Do not guess; always be sure.

Relax. No unnecessary or dysfunctional tension!

Hit the keys squarely in the center. If you find you aren't consistently doing so, SLOW DOWN!!! It should feel good to type!
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I 100% agree with this. Some very good advice that i'll try to remember. I sometimes have issues with the "Relax. No uncecessary or dysfunctional tension!" you know how it can be quite frustrating.

DreymaR- Hopefully I wont be going par 20 WPM for longer than a month that I'm sorry to say would make a hard push on me to give up which I truly do not want to do. I'm surprised that schools actually want you to make errors but you never know certain people need certain styles mine just happens to be the whole cheese or non at all : /

Thank you all for the encouragement! I plan on switching this weekend and get grinding away at learning it!

I see only one thing motivating you: Annoyance at inadvertently hitting Caps Lock, which is not a very good reason to switch to Colemak.  It is very easy to either disable Caps Lock and map it to another function, without having to go through an entire layout overhaul.

ds26gte and keyboard samurai: I could have sworn I gave my other reason, aparently not. Well I'm also experience the begginings of carpal tunnel syndrome...so I have to switch (also doctor recommended). People say 108 is phenominal but you basically can't get very much faster in QWERTY just because its so ineffective (unless you just do it constantly). The pay in some jobs can average from 20-2000 dollars a month more if I improve my speed to 135+ which is also a very positive reason for me to switch. Its either C or D and C appeals to me more.

Ah!  sounds like strong reasons to motivate  !     

The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love.
- ANNE MORRISS