Putting on my boots and walking into something. IDK why but it works, problem is that then I don't know how to slow down again resulting in me pacing until my laundry is done.
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My top two are reminding myself that the stupidest people alive manage to do the thing, and listening to Theoden's speech at Pelennor Fields
Screaming DEATH! DEATH! DEATH! right before calling the mechanic to schedule an oil change rn
It has been too long since I watched that.
My top one is writing my own project management software, and maintaining it for over a decade as its only user, because without it I would be 100% dysfunctional. It could be argued that the software isn't even that good. But it involves ranking the tasks against each other so at the end you have to pick something concrete.
That sounds super interesitng. How does the ranking work? Like you've got a bunch of things you need to do, but you don't want to. So you ask would you rather do x or y until you choose an action?
Similarly, I have a spreadsheet I've been refining for years synced across all my devices for task management. No premade solution satisfied me. The columns I use:
- Task: short description of task
- Details: any helpful details to remember
- Did: date last done
- ↻: repetition interval in days currently going all the way from daily (1) to every other year (728)
- Do: next do/due date
- Meta Notes: usually hidden notes for future me about why a task is set up the way it is or placed where it is to avoid relearning certain lessons
I keep everything brief enough for the main 5 columns to comfortably fit both the width of my phone and a space I keep available on my left desktop monitor.
The Do column is calculated for me and is color coded from red (very late) through orange (missed a day), yellow (do today), green (near future), blue, purple, and black (far future).
Completing a task is usually as simple as Ctrl+; or F4 (or a calendar tap) in the Did column, and the immediate feedback of the color change keeps me invested in continuing.
I use this same layout for routines, projects, leisure, etc. which all have their own sheets. To give you an idea of how thorough these are, my routines one has about 200 lines.
Get up and run.
Maybe 5 feet maybe 500, but I need to move and I know it will change my current collection of brain noises to a different and potentially more useful cacophony of quantum farts.
So I get up and run.
I don't really have one. I just get stuck 😢
Ps, she's @cherry.adhd on instagram, can recommend following her.
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
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 love how the first playlist is basically just the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack, with a healthy dose of Skyrim thrown in.
The music is basically...pirated.
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?
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
Yes, but having a toolbox with shit that works for others might still come in handy, even after a successful therapy.
Autistic burnout happens about 70% less often for me ever since I limited social media time to 30 minutes per day.
Not all of us have the privilege of getting actual, good professional help.
Found the therapist...
Haha this looks really sketchy if you just glance at it fast. Haha no I'm not a professional just someone that has recently found the way out.
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.
wait, you guys are getting things done??
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.
Where do you get the espresso from when you're stuck?
Icy shower.
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. 🤯
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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!
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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.
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I imagine labeouf shouting "JUST. DO IT"
This doesn't work if you also suffer from oppositional defiance disorder.
YES IT DOES!
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