I second alarms. I use them throughout the day to prompt me to get a task completed. Also, everything for the task has to be nearby. I happened upon the concept from a food server. All items for their tasks were at their station. Now, take it step further and try to chain tasks by having one end where the next action begins.
Glad we don’t wear those shirts anymore!
Suggestion: Make it worse - Make it worser
We are our worst enemy. There was an interesting piece on NPR (might be a TED Talk) about how our brains see our future selves the same as a stranger. Meaning we have the same amount of goodwill and empathy as for a random stranger on the street. Like, if you see someone in the rain without an umbrella, then think “sucks to be them” well, that is you tomorrow. Weird
I’m not a doctor, but those meds can’t be safe. Some can last a while, but those are sealed. If yours are in a bottle, they can go bad, absorb moisture, and go stale. That’s what I’ve been told by others.
I second the seclusion idea. We cannot be trusted with distractions. Remove them and you won’t have to resist or use will power. Speaking of will power, we don’t have as much as others. I’ve found routines are my lifeline. Each task or step has to complete near the beginning of the next one. The closer the better, so there is as little time for a distraction to interfere with the flow. One last thing, it doesn’t get better or worse. You ability to cope gets better or worse. We have ADHD, you don’t grow out of it any more than a person with a missing hand (an an extreme example) grows out of it. They work around it. They can’t use both hands, because they don’t have two hands. We have our personal ADHD symptoms that won’t go away. Our only way forward is to identify them, accept them, and then work on ways to mitigate them. You wouldn’t fault a one handed man for not being able to clap like everyone else, so don’t beet yourself up over your “failings”. Help yourself of tomorrow by finding how to cope with your symptoms today.
And now there are two. It’s a start. Every cult starts small, lol
Is CZM here??? Where are they??? I need to find fellow Machete-edicine practitioners
If chatgpt was running a sex robot, do you think it’d try some really awkward techniques? I mean porno moves that don’t really happen in real life. How many genitals will be mutilated before we raise up against the machines?
I love being right, but it’s better when others think so too, lol
I just started using planner as a digital kanban board. My new job has next to nothing written down. Everyone has been there for years so they “just know how to do it”. Well that doesn’t help a new person, lol. That is an innovative way to use the cards. I will definitely look into it more. I think the key takeaway is “if it helps you, use it!”
Since you’re using Microsoft already, OneNote is a great tool too. I write down most everything I do at work in it. My basic organization is as follows: OneNote NoteBook |_ Year - Collection for each year in the company/position |_ Month - Tab for every month |_ Daily Page - the title is important here, because the search function is kinda weird. It will return a list of pages the term is found, then highlight it once you’ve opened a page. For example a title like this, SA 23.09.2023, will show up. It helps me find the right page faster. I also created a second OneNote Notebook for all the projects, research, and often used procedures, organized similarly around topics rather than chronologically. For me, it’s a life saver. On my third job since I started using OneNote, still using my notes from years ago. The wiki article is what got me started. Now I don’t have remember what I did, because it’s written down and somewhat cataloged.
Uh oh, my bias is showing again, lol.
Very on-brand. I’ll have to look it up.
Not the genital mutilation, though, that’s Jewish. I never understood why Christians do it. Didn’t Jesus fulfill the law and the prophets? Plus there was a spat over adults converting, but not getting circumcized that was settled on the side of “not required”. I may be remembering it wrong.
Whoa, pal. Sounds like you want Big Government. Be careful what you ask for. Next thing you know, they be delivering food, water, and medical care as a so called “human right”. A government big enough to give you those things can take them away, too. No thank you. On this planet we die like men, without seatbelts or safety standards of any kind.
So, we’re doomed to distraction
Sometimes, I wish we had a sort of “on air” sign so people would know not to interrupt what we’re doing
A place for everything, everything in it’s place.