I need accountability, the threat of failing someone looming over my head. Oh… You mean good for me. Nevermind ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ I hadn’ t read the complete question
Heavily distract myself by listening to a podcast or audiobook and charging my phone.
I’m actually using this as a positive. There are some I relisten to because I enjoy them so much, its enough to keep a good amount of my brain on it, and let’s me do other things since my hands are free.
When I miss parts because I start down some other train of thought, since ive already listened to it so many times I know exactly where I am and what happened.
Thats about the best I’ve got.
Edit: Apparently audiobook now autocorrects to audiobookshelf, which is very funny to me
Edit 2: This doesnt always work, as I should be folding laundry right now. Going back to folding laundry.
Dungeons and Daddies (not a bdsm podcast). Especially the specials, but I relisten to the seasons. I caught it early about 4 or 5 episodes in, my daughter was just born, and I spent a lot of evenings alone cleaning so my wife could rest. I’d basically listen to all of the episodes before the next came out, just listening while doing dishes or cleaning bottles or whatever.
Sometimes “micro yesses” work for me. That’s where you turn “getting started” into something absurdly simple. Like, way simpler than you think. If your goal is to do the laundry, your “micro yes” is not grabbing the laundry basket, or going into the bedroom, or even standing up. It’s to wiggle your toes.
Make things simple. I hate doing dishes but if the sink is emptyish and the dry rack is empty I can do the dishes no problem, the hard part is doing the dishes consistently to keep the sink and dry rack that way.
Or cleaning the bathroom; have everything needed right there under the sink, and have the process down because I get easily agitated so if I have to dig for a brush in another room and then look for soap etc I just rather not.
If everything is right there under the sink and I look at the toilet and think it needs a cleaning I don’t even have to leave the room to start it makes it a lot easier to suddenly talk myself into it
I don’t and then i hate myself for not doing things until it gets unbearable, then hate myself even more when its inevitably less difficult than i hyped myself up for. Its not sustainable at all.
I have noticed that a lot of my drive to do better comes from spite. To spite my family, showing them that i am better than them and did it without them on my own!
I used to imagine myself getting I. Trouble until I learnt that I have ADHD and I was giving myself massive anxiety problems. Nowadays I just sort of try to push out of my head the possibility of doing anything else, like sitting on my arse isn’t even something I am able to do.
