Motivation is my worst enemy.

Putting your foot down and telling yourself to do something then not doing it because nobody tells me, not even me.

I've recently taken up using a check list app to make sure I do the million stupid little dumb things I need to do during the day and it's been really helpful.
- Which one do you use may I ask? My life is hell.
  
  Habit now
  
  I feel you... its a special kindbof hell, isn't it?

Spot on
Except I think of it more like this

So is that why I'm decently productive at work but it's a miracle if I can force myself to do the laundry or load the dishwasher or other chores?
- Very likely. I find it also has a lot to do with environment, like work is the place I go to get stuff done, home is the place I play games and chill. So when it's time to get stuff done at home, the wires get crossed a bit.

1: Cut all those chains and never get anything done!
2: …
3: There’s no profit in this.

I started a bullet journal to manage my days and it helped a lot with this.
- this worked wonders for me
  then bullet journals lost its "new" factor and now its dusting in the corner w all the other calendars, organisers, diaries and notebooks I tried to start

making appts and being really strict abt scheduling things has really helped. creates accountability without exactly telling me what to do.
and bringing an early bag, so that i can be entertained when i show up early to things (never gets opened but I'm usually only 5 min early/late now cuz I'm not scared of being bored while i wait!)
- Past me can't tell me what to do! F that guy!
  But yeah, works well for me too. Throw your hat over the fence.
  
  Past me is an idiot and future is a pushover. Present and past me always bully future me by giving them all the tasks

this one hits hard

@BeAware @adhd
Credit to @Chrishallbeck
https://mastodon.social/@Chrishallbeck/111767547012236158

Get outta my head!!
But stick around, I could use the external motivation.

Lists. Lists everywhere.
- I've become an expert at ignoring lists.

Memes like this are why I asked to be screened for ADHD as an adult. Thanks for this. Vyvanse is the best thing to have ever happened to me, when I can find it.
Combine ADHD with BED and #ThisIsWhyImFat. “I want to lose weight and get healthy”…”too fucking bad”.
- Can you elaborate a bit?
  The meme's from this sub often do resonate with me, but I had understand that most of these things are commonly experienced by people just generally, but a diagnosis of ADHD will depend on the degree to which these things are experienced, and the harm they're causing.
  I do struggle with my mental health, (as in, struggling to be productive because I'm paralyzed by anxiety), but thus far (I'm 41) I've managed to hold it together. I've built my own small business with a few staff. IDK if I'd call it "successful" but it's enough to provide for my family so I must be "functional" in some capacity.
  I'd love to be diagnosed with whatever thing that is easily treatable with whatever drug that will cure all that ails me, but having been on and off SNRIs and SSRIs over the last few decades, I know that's a promise that meds rarely fulfil.
- Some of these memes are scarily accurate to me, I'm very seriously considering getting a diagnosis.
  
  Do it. Whats the worst that could happen, you find out you’re normal?
  Or you could self assess first. The diagnostic criteria is public knowledge.
  My wife tried to talk me out of it, talking about Ritalin zombies from elementary school. Honestly if anything, compared to my baseline I feel like a superhuman when my SSRIs and amphetamines kick in. Then I realize that that’s what “normal” is supposed to feel like.

It’s even worse when it’s mashed up with other issues that run at cross-purposes to it.
I’ve got a particularly nasty Voltron of ADD combined with Asperger’s, and holy hell does it give me the ability to concentrate for hours on my least important and most useless tasks, while violently rejecting that which is critically due to get done.
- I feel that in my soul. I've got ADHD and bipolar disorder, sometimes they align in absolutely awful ways. Experiencing hyperfocus and mania at the same time is a special level of hell.

yep. ugh

The trick is games. When the computer gives you an objective and then your score, you don't feel like it's some other asshat trying to play you. You're doing the playing!
Now get Habitica from the play store.
- Habitica worked for about a month until it lost the new factor and I just never looked at it again, just like all the other habit apps

- Everyone pees, but if you pee 50 times a day that's problematic.
  
  What if you just pee a tiny lil bit all the time?
- Congrats on breaking the one and only rule.
- This absolutely does not apply to most people.