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Any tips on how to get yourself to do something important? I get burnt out quickly and everything piles up, sometimes I even miss deadlines bc of burnout.
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Anonymous 5d

Do it out of spite, pretend someone (evil orange man for me) wants you to fail (he does bc I’m disabled)

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Anonymous 4d

I made myself a “treasure jar” I wrote a bunch of activities and little things to do in the jar like Starbucks or face masks, new book etc…every time I complete a really important task I pick a piece of paper out of the jar.

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Anonymous 5d

Genuinely the only thing that works for me is body doubling

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Anonymous 5d

weirdly enough, the coconut mall music from mario kart works great for me when i need to grind stuff

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Anonymous 4d

If you look up opposite action it is a dbt skill that could help. They say negative self talk does not motivate us, so I would discourage that!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5d

Same. I’d argue it works even better than meds

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5d

I like this

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4d

I love this

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4d

What’s that?

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 4d

someone sits with you and either does their own thing or helps you with whatever you’re doing

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 4d

They don’t help with the task when body doubling, they either do the thing too (like study while you’re studying) or just sit there. Helping complete it would just be helping lol

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