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.
I don’t really have one. I just get stuck 😢
Ps, she’s @cherry.adhd on instagram, can recommend following her.
Putting on my boots and walking into something. IDK why but it works, problem is that then I don’t know how to slow down again resulting in me pacing until my laundry is done.
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?
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
Honestly if we’re ever overwhelmed we just go to the bathroom for 10 minutes, just sit there on our phone and if need be hyperventilate in privacy sometimes sparkling water in our face.
If we’re panicking over a certain fear we’ll end up cursing it like it should fear us and just binge some memes
When stuck being frustrated we take a second and zone out like hard reset and our brain is like “mood”
Make an iced latte by rehydrating and frothing dry milk powder, and brewing the espresso shots using ice-cold water in a hand-pump travel espresso maker.
Fair enough, but there’s a reason I linked the actual espresso maker that I use to make cold brew. Making a cold espresso requires saturating the grounds and holding a lower pressure for longer before reaching the required pressure to actually pass the water through the grounds. Without this extended soaking period, you’ll instead just make cold coffee-stained water.
Technically, any of the hand pump espresso makers can do the same thing, but not without significant effort. During the minute-long pressurized soaking period (30 seconds if you favor speed over flavor), you have to keep gently pumping to maintain the necessary pressure. A lever action has massive endurance and precision advantages over the piston action espresso maker that I also use.
So, while there are plenty of other lever espresso makers, most of them aren’t what I’d consider portable, and all of them cost more than my first three espresso makers combined. I’m honestly not sure if the one I linked is even manufactured anymore, their website seems to be a little dead when I’ve tried visiting, and their customer service hasn’t responded to my recent help requests.
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.
Autistic burnout happens about 70% less often for me ever since I limited social media time to 30 minutes per day.
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.
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 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.
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!
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?
Meds.
wait, you guys are getting things done??
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.
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.
