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
So I watched a video negatively critiquing Theoden’s tactical prowess and I wasn’t able to talk about how the Rohirrim have special armour for their horses that gives them the ability to crush anything standing in their way.
IIRC you can use the Rohirrim in the game Shadow of War to basically erase any orcs on the map.
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.
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.
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?
It has been too long since I watched that.
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.
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.
Link please?
Link?
Please, link?
I don’t really have one. I just get stuck 😢
Ps, she’s @cherry.adhd on instagram, can recommend following her.
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.
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.
Autistic burnout happens about 70% less often for me ever since I limited social media time to 30 minutes per day.
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.
Heh, I’m just busting chops. Generally, I agree with you, with the caveat that “professionals” are not commodities. The therapist who is perfect for me will probably be terrible for someone else.
I’ll stop there, before my cynicism gets too far out of control. :D
The drugs are important so psychiatrist is my advice
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!
I have to have a sacrificial task at work. I can juggle dozens of different projects, but only if I have an annoying one that sits and festers. The only way it will get done is if a different, more annoying, task takes its place.
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.
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?
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
wait, you guys are getting things done??
Start a more important task so you can neglect that and work on the other things you were supposed to do. A sacrificial task, if you will.
I do this. Productive procrastination. The terrible thing is that it works
My place was never as clean as when i was failing school for not submitting stuff that was pretty trivial for my level
Ha! I tend to forget things so I swear I can only ever remember n-1 things. So having one thing to forget helps me remember everything else.
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 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
AFAIK ADHD runs in the family, and autism definitely does …
It really is.
I’m 99% positive that my mother has ADHD and my dad is AuDHD. Looking back the clues were… abundant.
My dad has Au, but just mild and it never got in the way of the basic functioning of our family
Watch a show with confident and or flat out deranged (but still motivated/functional) characters.
Wait for code-switching or whatever it is to kick in so you can easily start thinking and acting like said character.
Do the action the way you think they would.
You might have executive dysfunction but Hannibal Lecter sure doesn’t. (Bad example but I’ll leave it because it’s funny)
No joke I would do this to write essays in high school. It made my scores go up if I decided I would write the essay as though I was Cave Johnson
For completing household tasks, I’d recommend deranged characters like from Hazbin Hotel
For completing tasks that might make you anxious, I highly recommend someone who would be bored doing the task but still do it, so go watch The Witcher and then say under your breath “fuck” before doing the now more tedious than anxious task lol
I also really do recommend you choose humorously chaotic or satirical characters for most boring/tedious tasks btw because it makes life so much more entertaining to imagine their commentary about the action or your life in general.
Imagining that a character is talking to you (rather than… possessing you… being played by you?) can also be fun, like hearing Johnny Silverhand give you patronizing and cuss-word riddled but still somewhat motivating pep talk for going outside or writing an email lol
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Do the action the way you think they would.
Wait. Are you suggesting that I just role-play or “play pretend” my way out of distraction by just pretending I’m someone else?
You son of a bitch, I’m in.
You might have executive dysfunction but Hannibal Lecter sure doesn’t.
I mean, he’s got other problems though. This idea has the right spirit but I’m not trading my cards in for that.
No joke I would do this to write essays in high school. It made my scores go up if I decided I would write the essay as though I was Cave Johnson
LMAO
alright, lets go, i’ll now make pancakes like Luna would.
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.
Also WFH. Just showering and putting out outside clothes goes a LONG way to getting to motivated.
During COVID I walked around the block in the morning before starting to work from home.
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.
Newton’s first law of motion. Body in motion remains in motion
So cant get stuck if i never sit down, keep on moving. Start in the morning and drop dead in the evening, never sit down too long in the meanwhile.Though yeah probably not that helpful in getting into motion again once stuck. Body in rest remains at rest
Warning: not the healthiest approach
Yeah, my husband is always trying to get me to eat, and I’m like if this train slows down one bit, I’m done for the day. Do you want the laundry folded or not?
My fiance also can’t stop or they lose momentum, so I hand feed them snacks periodically throughout the day so they can keep going and not starve. Dino nuggies, carrot sticks with ranch, diagonally cut sandwich with the crust removed; the works.
That’s beautiful. Truly.
This is how I do it. As soon as I sit down, it’s over. Really annoying when I am working with friends/family who always want to take a lunch break, because they insist I join them and I lose all my steam if I do.
I definitely have this but it falls apart when working on my computer unless theres one really urgent task or a work call. The fact I’m sitting or the waiting for something to load or something gets in the way stops my motion. Do you have any solutions for computer work?
FASTER computer so there are never waiting times! (and tune the hell out of it)
Or just get old and it’ll feel like the computer gets faster.
That doesn’t work if you’re forced to use Azure products.
No idea how they even managed to make an export of a list of 200 users take over a minute.
