Autism

Im putting this as unhinged advice cause it is kinda unhinged but like those sigma male motivation videos sometimes work. I dont mean the "beat your wife" kind but there are ones that have compilations of professional athletes and whatever. Like why it works, i dont subscribe to all of the alpha male stuff but watching a 300lbs man pull an airplane with a chain while some inexcusable techno/hardstyle plays helps sometimes. Also get up, get your blood pumping and get ready like youre about to do a similal feat, and instead clean your home or whatever your goal was.

Ok so have you seen the Dropout show Dimension 20? The Mentopolis season has a character (played by Hank Green) called The Fix, whose job is to go around this 1930s-coded brain city and literally mob-enforcer style "take care of" distractions.

So I just chat with my The Fix in my head. It is starting to work a bit more all the time.

Unavoidable timers. For example:

1. Devices with low battery and the charger is out of reach.
2. Drinking a bunch of water.
3. Playing an album with nothing queued afterwards.

Along the same lines: incidental timeboxing. My toaster takes 2 mins, and leaving the kitchen means I'm likely to end up with sad cold toast, so I better stay and deal with some of the kitchen mess in those two minutes. The phrase "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean" has been strangely useful to me.

Allowing things to be partially done, but not in a state where is going to be a big problem. For example, the above kitchen mess.

• A cup and bowl with food left in it will be hard to clean and attracts bugs and grows mold, and that's a problem.
• An empty but dirty cup and bowl is better but still harder to clean.
• A rinsed cup and bowl filled with water left in the sink is easiest to clean, so that's the least problematic state to leave it in, and it's not much harder to do that than it is leaving the food-filled cup and bowl there to begin with.

It doesn't work but I write about doing the task and every once in a while that unsticks me

Start a war in the Middle East 🤠

Start provoking/taunting the task as if it was a fight about to happen.

Put all the shit i have to do on my calendar back to back to back and start the moment I get it if need to create a false sense of "oh shit" and it works for me.

Getting it out bed isn't always the easiest so I rub one out, well I gotta get up to clean that mess, that a shower, and get in it.

I picture the most over-achieving, manically driven person I know. Someone whose calendar is booked full half a year in advance from all their hobbies, friends and side-hustles. Then I pretend I'm them, magically teleported into my body, looking at the situation they found themselves in. I comment on the mess in my room, imitating their voice and everything.
Then I say "Well, it is what it is, let's fix this shit" and get to work.

Jerking it while doing tedious bullshit on my side monitor has worked for me in the past. Probably not great for executive function long term though so I don't do it regularly and it's usually that I get distracted enough from what I'm watching by whatever annoying task popping into my head that I just start chipping away at it.

Blow a minor deadline so I can get motivation not to miss the next one~

Convince myself that I have the most perfect plan in the world.

Get out of bed and put on socks? I will move my duvet to the right in a fast tug with my right arm. Flashy! Swing both feet down to the floor simultaneously and get up in one smooth motion. Strong! Then grab the first pair of socks I can find blindly. Brave!

Drinking a good amount of water! It makes me pee every 30-45 minutes and somehow that interruption keeps me focused on whichever task I was doing. Plus, keeps you hydrated and healthier skin 😂

Remember that I'm going to die

double dose the pharmaceutical speed

Get angry