{{TODO}} 🔬 maybe I feel consistently worse after increasing zoloft, and it’s the cause of it?
-> seems like the only way to work is to make something more interesting than procrastinating.
👀 at night it's clearly much easier to focus and think. like when the light goes off - every distraction disappears
{{TODO}} summarize different aspects of ADHD
motivational aspect
hard to start, stay at task, finish
disorganized (chaos, clutter, piles)
forgetfulness
23:31 Daily Log/Braindumping
Somehow I feel sad, discouraged. Atmosphere around Anya is kind of depressing, or it's me. Hard to focus on TGI preps. Everything seems to make so little sense. And just sadness.
Plus, skipped self care routine for two days in a row
🔬 being/feeling dirty and unattractive always triggered me, made me feel like a loser
discouraged me, made me feel like my life has no future and like there is little hope. made me hate myself, being disgusted
guess lot's of it comes from me having bad acne in my teenage years
01:48 (January 18th, 2021) 👀 after shower feel completely different, "fixed".
Good day, glad to have midday and self care routine done. plus did study for real, even if only 2x25 min in total. accomplishments
additionally, although it’s 3am, I’m still not staying up whole night. it’s kind still progress in right direction - recovering my sleep schedule, which is so crucial!
everything went sideways when we stopped setting alarms for the morning. sleep schedule 👀
-> studying on paper works.
working online - any chance to chase distractions would be too hard to resist.
the barrier between distractions and study material seems to make all the difference.
-> visual timers help immensely in reducing time anxiety
Routinery app is just a gem, everything I ever wanted.
Why @RoamResearch is the MOST powerful tool to think & mgmt & output? It's NOT structure-less, it is just NOT enforcing outdated structure (notebook, tags, text as blob). AND it let's you extend it. I wrote almost 10k lines & 300k character Roam code. Viktor Tabori on Twitter
ryans01 (u/ryans01) - Reddit - no zero days guy
But I have one question; how do you pick yourself back up when your mind has convinced you to be lazy today, or for the next couple days? That's a problem I run in to a lot, where my mind will just convince me that my couch is more comfortable, or I can start that project tomorrow, or the gym isn't THAT important today, etc. How do you move past that?
ryans01 It's all about yes or no. Choose yes. Because you want to and because you can.
Couch is comfortable? You're saying no to your dreams. Been on the couch for an hour already? Forgive yourself and say yes. You'll get it over time. :)
There's 80k people over in the non zero days subreddit - amazing how much a single step in the right direction can snowball
You're not a loser. You just dealt with some shit for a ridiculously long time. Get over it, forgive yourself for all the time you wasted, and go start loving.
Die Bedeutung der Frage ergibt sich daraus, dass viele praktisch wichtige Probleme von dem oben beschriebenen Typ sind, also dass die Korrektheit einer Lösung leicht überprüfbar ist, es aber vermutlich schwierig ist, eine korrekte Lösung zu berechnen.
Roam Hacker
Frustration Free Roam webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vXCZyjGFds
Limitless @RoamResearch Foundation Course course Bucket List
{{TODO}} link Sai Prasanna on Twitter: "My new roam daily notes template. Thanks to smart blocks in roam42 extension, queries, and roam's magic. @roamhacker roamcult https://t.co/1UGFboYee2" / Twitter
A great way to use roam is not to obsess over creating a perfect system, but just gradually explore and convert repeating patterns into templates and iterate on what works and remove what causes friction. Start with [[]] -> (()) -> query -> templates -> smart templates.
4 golden rules - link productivity, discipline summary
No Zero Days
Gratitude and Favors (3 You's)
Forgiveness (Past Self)
Books and Exercising
You become what you think about and what you do every day
My Ultimate ADHD/Autism "Become a Functional Person" Productivity Cheatsheet : productivity - link article summary
Metadata/Tags:: productivity, ADHD tactics
Can't literally tell what I'm feeling -> Braindumping
Helps to tell how and why you feel the way you do
Unfiltered, badly, everything that comes to mind, with no structure, like on a scrap of paper you can through out
Brain is full of bees -> Mindmapping
Helps to
alleviate the feeling of chaotic-stress or "too much going on"
{{TODO}} WTF to do next? -> Section tasks as "Do Soon, Do Eventually, Would be Neat"
Outlined in a bullet point fashion:
have a masterlist for everything (tasks, goals, links, projects etc.)
series of tasks into a linear step-by-step
{{TODO}} Kanban with three sections?
Do Soon = today, this week, ought to do next
Do Eventually = aren't time sensitive/ on hold
Would be Neat = everything else (neither urgent nor life-changingly important)
Keep losing track of all this important shit -> Externalise knowledge/information-needs (onto one Gsheet?) with sectioned tabs
Your own "Masterbook of Important Shit"
will help to free up lots of valuable-and-lacking mental RAM-space
Having ADHD = We have to constantly externalize what we "know" into "I know where to find it."
Motto: "I know I'm not going to remember this, but I also know where to find it"
Cant start -> Visual Timers (shrinking pie-charts, hourglasses ) removes time-anxiety
Compensate for our inability to have a sense of time
We have either
Now - Not Now (when)
Forever - Nothing (how long)
We procrastinate bc we feel that something will take forever to do
Being able to visually see time disappearing, really helps to motivate yourself to pursue a task and to make said task appear a lot less all-consuming. We freeze when we can't see the end to a task/project, a visual timer gives us freedom and clarity of mind when we're like this. Numbers counting down is still too 'abstract' for a lot of us, but seeing something shrink down over time gives a much more concrete sense of time.
Mid-task wandering off -> Junebugging
Assign yourself an anchor point
Having ADHD involves accepting that you'll have SOME 'wandering off', but we can guide our hurricane-of-chaotic-attention to specific areas/topics versus punishing ourselves for being unable to focus on One Thing.
{{TODO}} next level: take a day to list bunch of 'cluster tasks' you can do together and default to when junebugging
You can also apply this to digital programs/folders/emails, though I recommend an external post-it note reminder of what you're presently junebugging, for lack of physical anchor
Hate but need alarms? -> Use cluster alarms/notification apps that are pleasant to use
{{TODO}} try TimeTune App
While getting visual notifications (at first) seems like an obvious ADHD solution, we risk getting "Notification Overload" where we just start dismissing notifications without even reading or noticing them.
Find the planner that works for YOU specifically
Physical agenda books
There's planners out there that split up days into hourly sections, and include monthly journal-like check-ins where you can look back and assess what worked, what didn't work, and if you're pursuing things that are aligning to your own personal goals/desires along with reminders to appreciate the people around you.
Feeling Stuck in Cycles? -> Be inspired by your future ideal self
{{TODO}} "Unfuck Yourself" book Bucket List to/read
we are often trapped by our past habits and past lifestyles, traumas, habit patterns, etc.
"What we spend mental energy on is what we become"
Pull from future
Think about who you want to become, where you want to be.
Think about the possible paths you would need to take to get there.
The danger of introspection is we can get caught-up in how we were that we forget to look to who we could become.
It gets a lot easier to pursue new habits, new efforts, when we can actually identify if we're on "the right track" or not.
Can't Read? -> Abuse audiobook platforms like you're robbing a library
You can use audiobooks as background noise to 'pad' unpleasant tasks like chores, dishes, and feed yourself media while doing something unpleasant or time-consuming.