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Tell someone something is already done and that you’ll show them later.
Panic is a wonderful motivator.
My energy for school projects.
Just do something, even if it’s a terrible idea.
Example: I need to put up this shelf. I’ll get my tools. But first I need to find the right position, measure, make sure it’s level, line up the guide holes…well, before I pick the position, I should check for studs. Where’s the stud finder? Oh, I need a pencil too. And those magic sponges. Do I need to buy more of those? HOLY SHIT, IT’S BEEN TWO HOURS AND I’VE DONE NOTHING?
Drills hole in wall.
Ok. Now there’s a big hole in the wall. I need to resolve that before my wife comes home in an hour. That’s motivating. Let’s see if i can cover that with a shelf.
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“dropped a table” as in “little Bobby DROP TABLES”?
It’s so hard to drill that hole sometimes but it’s so true, even just doing something wrong but related is enough to prime things.
I read a book that convinced me that anything I thought I ‘should’ do was completely optional. I did the 'had to’s as I’d always done, and if a ‘should’ came up I did it if I felt like it and was able to not worry about it if I didn’t. It was a pretty nice week. Therapist laughed at it when I told them, and that was the end of that.
This isn’t a hack, but I try to do one thing at a time now.
If I’m cleaning the house and I’m tempted to deep clean a drawer or do some side quest that isn’t actually the thing I should be going, I’ll take note, say out loud “damnit focus, that isn’t going to help right now” and regroup.
It’s frustrating, but giving into my impulses is usually what makes shit take forever and never get done.
Also lots of caffeine and THC seems to help (?).
One of these days I’m going to try getting diagnosed for ADHD and get medicated, but making phone calls to do that and talking to someone sounds like a nightmare. That would be a truly unhinged solution for me.
I misunderstood this as hacks to get adhd people stuck.
Ask them “are you sure you haven’t forgot anything important?” Just as they try to leave for the day.
Make them late as fuck for no reason
Umm do not do that to me!
Hand them a menu
What really gets me is packing for the airport. So many random things all need to be packed and I sometimes just walk back and fourth trying to decide what to pack next.
Pretty, shiny flypaper
Getting arrested.
I wasn’t arrested, but held for questioning because my car was near the scene of the incident. So I had to wait there for 30 minutes and give a statement.
Those 30 minutes, I was having a ball thinking creatively.
That’s why when I really need to get a project done, I call 911 and SWAT my own house. There. Instant meaningful deadline. Only a few minutes to work, and that’s the only chance you’ll have for the rest of the day at least! 😂
Got a homework assignment due that you wont make? Swat yourself and get arrested, its the new my dog ate my homework excuse with an actual record to prove it!
today I wanted to sew up a hole in the shirt I wanted to wear so I sat at the sewing machine shirtless so that every time I would try to get up to go do something else, my tits being out would remind me oh yeah I want to sew this fucking hole in the shirt before I do anything fucking else.
unfortunately I wasn’t able to finish setting up the sewing machine before my roommate needed me for something, so I just put on the shirt. it still has a hole. 😑
I do a similar thing with mowing the lawn. I pull the lawnmower out and sit down to have a cigarette. Eventually I’ll get annoyed enough at seeing the lawnmower that I’ll just do the work.
I have this feature where my brain blocks out the presence of the lawn mower. Now it’s just a part of how a lawn looks like.
This took so much time for my wife to understand. “But you see $THING everyday!”, “Yes, and that’s why I don’t see it anymore”. She probably still doesn’t understand-understand, but she kind of knows.
Yeah, that’s why it’s so annoying when people say “leave a note somewhere!” or “make a list!”
Like, those notes and lists would quickly just become part of the background noise. And then they say “You’re just making excuses! You didn’t even try it!”
I mean, do you really think I’m just pulling this out of my ass as if I’ve never tried that before? Like I’m just too stupid to think of that myself, and no one has ever suggested it before, and your advice is the first time I’m ever hearing of this “leave a note” trick? No, I’ve fucking tried everything and learned from experience what works and what doesn’t, and that’s why I’m so resigned to my fate now.
Or do I really need to try again every time someone new says “Just use a post-it note!”, and act like I’m trying it for the first time to “keep an open mind.”
Same thing with all that other BS neurotypical advice, like “Just go to the gym”/“Start a healthy routine”/“Find a hobby”/“Just go out and talk to people and make more friends.”
Like, mf stop! I’ve tried it all. It doesn’t work. Even if you think it works for “normal people,” guess what? I’m not “normal people!”
And then they say “You seem pretty normal to me.”
Like yeah, just go ahead and invalidate my entire life experience of dealing with an invisible and incurable disability, because YOU can’t see at a glance what a personal living hell it can be. All that tells me is that I’ve done an effective job at masking so as not to make the NTs uncomfortable, when really all it does is make it harder to find reasonable accomodations when I really need them.
Yup, my massage chair agrees that it’s a table.
This reminds me of how I force myself to go to the laundromat. I put all my dirty laundry into bags and set them between my bed and the door. Even when I want to be lazy, seeing those bags there and having to walk by them to leave will eventually make me think, “Fuck it, just get it over with.”
Also, for cleaning pots and pans after cooking - I start by putting them in the sink. Then I think, “I should add soapy water at least, so it’ll be easier to clean.” I add the soapy water, then think, “I should scrub the top parts, where the water isn’t reaching.” Then after that I go, “You know what, I’d rather not have to come back and finish this later. Just wash the whole damn thing.”
And that’s how I manage to clean my pots/dishes.
You jusr need to commit harder. Roommate needs help? Tits out or wait for me to sew this shit
I considered it but she’s uncharacteristically uncomfortable with nudity (for a European) and also what she needed help with was installing the air conditioner so I begrudgingly conceded that was more important than fixing the shirt, given it was 90 °F. I wouldn’t have wanted AC dirt all over my tits either. Oh also I suppose that would have been tits in front of the open window which is considered rather impolite to the neighbors
Well, we are on the internet and I don’t want to hear your reasonable and nuanced arguments! /s
Yeah, sometimes things just go that way and we have to do our best to come back to it later.
That was 5 years ago… It still has a hole
Have a child. They’ll remind you when you’re getting distracted again.
children exist to remind you of your flaws.
when people say those with mental illnesses shouldn’t have kids, this is actually the reason, not so that the child also doesn’t have the mental illness.
Mentioned it before but: Watch a show with crazy but functional characters until mirror-neurons/code-switching/whatever-the-hell-it-is kicks in and you start being able to act and think like them. Then do the task as that character. The more unhinged the character the better because then it’s just fun to kinda larp them in your head as you do your task, and it takes your mind off of the task itself but still gets you to do the task.
Also very helpful for writing essays btw. Like if normally you write essays “like a robot” just pick someone who speaks with charisma and write the essay in the way you think they would. I’m not joking, it really helps
Coukd you recommend some shows good for this?
The last time I needed to do this (I got medicated shortly after) the first few episodes of Helluva Boss were coming out and several of those characters are quite… eccentric which makes it easier (and more fun) to hear them in your head as you do a stupid task.
If you have anxiety about the task, watching The Witcher might be a better option. That was my go-to for socially anxious tasks like going to the laundromat. Become Geralt and suddenly it is no longer frightening to do laundry but tedious to the point you’re too annoyed to be socially anxious lol
Then I accidentally pick Cheryl/carol from archer and burn the whole place down.
Idk, you’re just as likely to release a banger of a country album
Outlaw country!
Just make sure you stay away from glue.
YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!!
Watch Uncut Gems, really gets you into that hustler mindset.
Oh look another thing I do but never realized was due to my ADHD.
This reminds me of a piece of advice I once got when taking foreign language exams. Try to think how your teacher talks and writes and act like them. Embody them.
I would do that to an unhealthy degree if I liked more characters from my native language (dubs are usually lame) … hard to larp a character in a foreign language.
I do this, but I’ve never thought to turn it back on itself and use it to my advantage, pure genius!
So… How unhinged is your behavior? Where you from Dread Pirate Roberts to the first Freddy Kruger movie
ketamine. Doesn’t work anymore, don’t try it
but there has been at least three times I took some k and for some reason I got this primal, savage and wild urge to clean my house
why? idk
Disclaimer: this is not an endorsement for using street drugs. I am not a doctor.
Dopamine is why. All prescription ADHD meds increase ambient dopamine levels so that executive control is easier. Recreational drugs tend to feel good, and elevated dopamine levels are usually in the mix when it comes to sensations like that.
Jokes on you (well, actually me), I don’t have one! I’m just stuck and the only thing that helps that is another person making me do it.
This is me and my therapist literally built in time to our sessions just so she could browbeat me into calling the bank about a chargeback or whatever
Turns out there’s a fine line between therapist and dominator/trix?
Blasting my brain out with really loud music usually helps.
Besides that, my brain is a lot either/or.
I am not great a eating balanced, getting a balanced amount of exercise, or doing anything else balanced.
When I went to university, I either studied 10h/day every day, or I did not study at all.
As soon as I start slacking on my own extreme goals for specific task, I lose almost all ability to get that thing done.
It’s extreme or nothing, it is now or not now.
Blasting my brain out
Oh no.
with really loud music
Phew.
Currently blasting the new single by Muse, Unravelling, in my office, trying to force myself to do a mundane task at work…
New Muse track, you say? :D
The latest was released today! It is awesome, but Unravelling is my favorite so far, but Hexagons, which was released today is also really good.
Muse has some great songs and good albums as well; however since Something Human I’ve been nothing but disappointed, personally.
I agree, so I was quite surprised when I listened to their latest singles this morning. The latest single, Hexagons, was released today.
Their new singles is called Hexagons, Cryogen, Be With You and Unravelling, and I actually like all of them.
I think I listened to Cryogen and wasnt a huge fan but I’ll definitely see about the others.
Also it seems ones.enjoyment of a song tends to grow parabolically with time so if I really wanted I could just listen to it a lot and eventually id like it. Im experiencing this with Tool now. Never used to like them really but I have been enjoying the Aenima album
Cryogen is a bit meh, but give Unravelling a go, it is IMO the best of the new songs, while Hexagons also have potential, but I haven’t listened to it enough yet.
But it also really depends on ones taste in Muse’s songs. They really differ a lot. One of my favourites is Exo-Politics.
True
Well I really like both the accoustic and original Sonething Human. I also like Drones (song in particular), Newborn, oh and I quite like all of the alternative song versions towards the end of 20th Century edition of Absolution Album
The intro to be with you sounds like it might up my alleyway
Maybe I’m just being obtuse but I really feel Matt Bellamy has the skill to be amongst the greatest artist (at lesst in pop/rock) but its like hes just not getting at it the right way or something. Its like hes edging greatness and that is frustrating
I just don’t eat till the evening.
Hunger triggers a caveman response of “you need to work to get food” which keeps me productive.This and my eating disorder are best friends 🙃 thankfully, body dismorphia bullies both of them harder than they bully me, so I end up hot.
I also do this but apparently this can be a contributing factor to developing diabetes if you’re already at risk.
I’d love a source on this.
I’m in my late 50s and do IF. My last blood tests came out perfect, as in my doctor was almost pissed that she couldn’t tell me to quit something :)
I don’t know if there is one. Intermittent fasting can actually help with diabetes I was told, but not sure about full day fasting with one meal at the end.
I suspect the issue is you get hit with a bunch of carbs and sugars all at once and it overloads your pancreas’s ability to produce insulin.
If you candy carb load on withdrawal at 18.00 regulary that will surely strain your insulin receptors a lot.
Would be good to know if the claim IF>Diabetes specifies different ways of doing it.
YES! Five years of only eating after 6pm because it makes me energetic AF.
ok but then no energy to do stuff
The body makes energy from stored fat even if you don’t eat. But it’s a shallower pool that depletes easier so you need to work at a slower, sustainable pace.
Induce panic. Just spiral out of control about that shit until you get the adrenaline, then start doing coping mechanisms to get the anxiety to a level you can function but you can only function on the thing you’re specifically freaked the fuck out about.
It ain’t good for you, but it works in a pinch
I had a period of extremely productive work a while back when putting on late '90s early 2000s teen comedies in the background. I got so much done while 10 Things I Hate About You and Can’t Hardly Wait were playing in the background.
