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Medication and note taking helped a lot with me. Even better, a good note taking app since my handwriting is garbage, right now I'm using OneNote and I keep it
by yonaguska 5y ago
Medication and note taking helped a lot with me. Even better, a good note taking app since my handwriting is garbage, right now I'm using OneNote and I keep it pinned to every desktop separate from my code.
Motivation- you need to actually align your tasks with an actual concrete personal goal or sense of accomplishment. And be invested in the work. Lacking that, you'll be dependent on external stressors to get anything done, which will reflect poorly on you if it gets to that.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoMotivation. Forgot to mention that. Without it, everything is so much harder. :)
- zarmin 5y agoThank you. I do rely on medication and note taking apps (though mine are a bit scattered). One of my issues with motivation is what you mentioned: I really really struggle to get invested. Things that are "work" seem to live in an anti-motivation bucket, regardless of how organically interesting they may be to me outside of a work contest. I'm in my 30s now, and I've been doing this my whole life and it is killing me. It takes a tremendous amount of effort and an extremely imminent deadline to get me to start anything. This (ostensibly) runs completely contrary to my self-concept and value system, but the motivation problem permeates every fucking inch of my life, and always has. I can read this back and recognize a defeatist attitude, but I don't know what else to do.
- weq 5y agoSounds like you are still searching for meaning in your life. follow your dreams, dont follow others.