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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!!”
wait, you guys are getting things done??
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
This one might not be weird to some, but it’s my “one weird trick”. 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.
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
Oh yes, that’s a good one too. I do notice that myself too.
Fucking SCREAM
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.
I imagine labeouf shouting “JUST. DO IT”
This doesn’t work if you also suffer from oppositional defiance disorder.
YES IT DOES!
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.
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 😳
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.
Argue with every intrusive thought in the morning till 8am comes around, then tell them “Time for my adderall! And time for YOU ALL to shut the FUCK up!” then gleefully take it and wait 40-45 mins for brain silence.
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.
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.
For a quick focus jolt, a snack size slim jim from the “slim jim chute”, as i like to call it, and a shot glass of redbull.
My office (work from home) has a very narrow laundry chute we dont use, so I placed a 2x4 in it to cover the chute. Now it stores a box of slim jims and a cheap jelly fish speaker.
As much caffeine and nicotine as I can physically tolerate.
I set a 5-minute timer and race it like my life depends on it… somehow turning it into a game actually works 😅
Hardly any responses are “unhinged”. But I’ll try my best.
Don’t force yourself to do it. Instead, look at your list*, and just simulate the items one by one in your head, as if you’d do it.
Sometimes it happens that I really, really feel like doing one of them, like a neurotypical. It doesn’t sound like it’d work, but it does.
There is never any pressure to do any of them; then it would not work, because starting the process would be the new thing to be stuck on. Quite often, I just don’t feel like doing any of them. But that was not the job, the job was to simulate them. And it’s done, and I can allow myself to do nice things then.
(*) If there is no list, making the list is the only job. Don’t start on any items on it, just create the list. Then relax and enjoy whatever you want, until you feel like doing simulations.
I used to do this. Since I was a child, but it’d regularly trick me into thinking I’d done the thing. I’d have mentally done it so it was checked off the brain list, then someone would be upset later but I swore I had done it!
This would also escalate in the morning when I’d fall back asleep and dream about going about my day, then wake up late thinking I was already on my way to work or school.
I try to only do this for large tasks now.
Mushrooms
