My partner tells me “there will be consequences if you dont do it now” My brain is that dumb luckily that it falls for it lol
Icy shower.
Meds.
Putting on my playlist of pirate music.
Broke: “Ugh, I need to sweep, mop, and do the dishes.”
Woke: “ARRR, IT BE TIME TO BE SWABBIN’ THE DECK, YE SCURVY BILGE RAT!! AN’ WASH ALL O’ THE DISHES IN THE GALLEY, OR YE’LL BE WALKIN’ THE PLANK!!”
Edit: Ye asked fer the map to me hidden treasure. Here it be, me hearties!
I have to try this. I’m going to make playlist of sea shanties, Alestorm, and Captain Dan & the Scurvy Crew and move it to the top of my “get stuff done” folder.
Please, link?
Link?
Link please?
wait, you guys are getting things done??
I’m only gonna say this once
SEEK PROFESSIONAL TREATMENT GET THE FUCK OFF SOCIAL MEDIA
that’s the only thing I know that really works
Found the therapist…
Not all of us have the privilege of getting actual, good professional help.
Ya, if you have any kind of brainrot habits, scrolling on Lemmy, Instagram, YouTube, etc, stop immediately and getting things done is actually a lot easier. Adding amphetamine salts is also a major game changer.
Adding stims to scrolling increases the number and length of shitpost comments.
Chugging a quad shot espresso while saying ‘get up trinity. Get. Up.’ in my head
If you time it right, the anxiety from the caffeine hitting really sells the feeling that a matrix agent is coming to kill you so better get moving.
This one might not be weird to some, but it’s my “one weird trick”.
I put my shoes on.
I normally work from home, so usually don’t even wear shoes most of the day. And when I need to go outside for a minute or two, I don’t wear my shoes either.
But on the days that I get up and put my socks and shoes on in the morning, I fell extra motivated for the whole day. I definitely get more things done.
During COVID I walked around the block in the morning before starting to work from home.
Also WFH. Just showering and putting out outside clothes goes a LONG way to getting to motivated.
This is good. Putting on a nicer shirt helps me as well. I’m not in a white shirt and tie by any means, but just something nicer than my casual tees really does seem to make a difference in getting me in a good mental place for being more focused.
I’m sure for some it makes no difference and I would hate to sound like I’m supporting the stupid office dress code policies that I loathe, so please chime in if this doesn’t work for you
Yeah something nice but still comfortable.
Unless I’m at a point in a project where all the hard work is behind me and now I just have to implement (I call it my “victory lap” phase) then I’ll dress right down and just do it.
But that’s a special time.
Actually, it makes me wonder if that’s what work is like for neurotypical folks all the time. 🤯
Oh yes, that’s a good one too. I do notice that myself too.
Weaponized procrastination. Avoid doing the thing you want to do by doing something else.
Just the other day I cleaned most of my apartment because I was not in the headspace to write lore.
Another day I really needed to do laundry, most productive writing day I had in a while.
I use to say. My flat is never as clean as when I have to study. I never study as much as when I really have to clean. It never really occurred to me that I can weaponize this. Thanks!
We call that “productive procrastination.” But I like how you call it weaponized.
Yeah after the first two words I thought this was going to involve knives or guns 😳
Nobody says it cant.
That’s how do most of my tasks.
I read this as “weaponized prostitution” at first and was ready to hear how it works for some people, because it sure as hell didn’t work for me.
Something my therapist told me and that works more often than not. Set out to do the task for a very small time, like 3 minutes. After 3 minutes, you may find that you are absorbed in that task, but if not, just stop doing it.
The idea I think is to get over the difficulty in starting a task.
Yeah we want to know how to get out of the catatonic “I can’t move” mode.
Interstitial Journal
Write down:
- current time
- current activity
- optional: how you feel
- next activity
Example:
- 13:02
- standing on balcony scrolling Lemmy
- tense and energetic
- next: flash fedora image to USB drive
Yeah, that method addresses that.
Often the catatonic ADHD can’t move. Mode is related to resistance, starting a task.
Giving yourself an easy out that you know you can use after 3 minutes is an easy way to trick your brain into deciding that test starting a task isn’t such a big deal.
Therefore allowing you to move.
If you can’t move because depression then that’s different.
I imagine labeouf shouting “JUST. DO IT”
This doesn’t work if you also suffer from oppositional defiance disorder.
YES IT DOES!
Argue with every intrusive thought in the morning till 8am comes around, then tell them “Time for my adderall! And time for YOU ALL to shut the FUCK up!” then gleefully take it and wait 40-45 mins for brain silence.
As much caffeine and nicotine as I can physically tolerate.
Hardly any responses are “unhinged”. But I’ll try my best.
Don’t force yourself to do it. Instead, look at your list*, and just simulate the items one by one in your head, as if you’d do it.
Sometimes it happens that I really, really feel like doing one of them, like a neurotypical. It doesn’t sound like it’d work, but it does.
There is never any pressure to do any of them; then it would not work, because starting the process would be the new thing to be stuck on. Quite often, I just don’t feel like doing any of them. But that was not the job, the job was to simulate them. And it’s done, and I can allow myself to do nice things then.
(*) If there is no list, making the list is the only job. Don’t start on any items on it, just create the list. Then relax and enjoy whatever you want, until you feel like doing simulations.
I used to do this. Since I was a child, but it’d regularly trick me into thinking I’d done the thing. I’d have mentally done it so it was checked off the brain list, then someone would be upset later but I swore I had done it!
This would also escalate in the morning when I’d fall back asleep and dream about going about my day, then wake up late thinking I was already on my way to work or school.
I try to only do this for large tasks now.
My way around this is to do “incomplete” simulations. I just need an idea of how it’d feel to be on the task, not finished it. Never simulate to the end, or one of two things will happen: 1. waking up to the harsh reality where it is not done yet, 2. thinking it is done.
E. g. when I need to go grocery shopping, I simulate how I get up, shoes on, grab a bag, think about whether I need a jacket or umbrella, get out of the door, start walking. How would that feel?
I described it in more detail here: https://lemmy.ml/post/36147982
I have a simple 5-step plan I’ve used to do this.
- Get old and have a family that always has needs
- Get a shitton of pets too that always have needs
- Go look at the shower plumbing I need to fix
- Go look at my car hovering on jack stands as I wait for parts to come in for the brakes
- I think there’s an old overdue bill sitting somewhere too–
Heyyy today seems like the perfect time to go do that yard work that it’s been too cold for!
are…are you literally me?
you guys are what im desperately trying to avoid. no offense.
You’re missing out, it’s amazing
To each their own 🍻
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Haha I might have ADHD myself but growing up with ADHD parents must be something else
It really is.
I’m 99% positive that my mother has ADHD and my dad is AuDHD. Looking back the clues were… abundant.
