ADHD time!

My favourite strategy is to set a timer for FIVE, that's right, 5 minutes, and do the task for that amount of time. Give it a go for just 5 minutes. If you don't know how, just prepare for the thing, like open the document or grab the broom for 5 minutes. And if it sucks, feel free to stop after 5. That's okay! But I often find that once I get started, I'm perfectly happy to keep going longer.

GET........ MOTIVATED!

GET........ MOTIVATED!

GET........ MOTIVATED!

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Others have already posted some really good ADHD coping strats, so I’ll post a weirder one: sometimes chewing gum helps me focus.

Why aren't you doing what you need to do? Do you really need to do all of it? What's the one thing you need to do, will it be that difficult to start to do it?

GET IN THERE AND DO THAT MATH

OR GET GOOD SLEEP IMMEDIATELY SO N THAT YOU CAN DO GOOD MATH TOMORROW

AND HAVE A NICE DAY AND BEVERAGE

Break the task down into smaller, more doable-looking pieces and focus on one piece at a time. Piece still seems too big? Break it down further little piecelets. Now that you have some momentum going, break the piecelets down further into picopiecelets. Now the picopiecelets are subatomic in scale, so the task has disappeared! Task? What task? There is clearly nothing here.

ADHD coping is just constantly trying to trick your brain into shit. The promise of reward later works for some people (but not me because apparently I think so little of myself that I never believe I deserve rewards). Getting a friend to be in the same space as you for a period of time works quite well too. Annoyingly, bit of intense exercise early in the day actually does help me

There's some validity in the argument that procrastination is a revolt against anxiety so, idk, do the whatever it is that lessens your anxiety.

On the other hand, I have ADHD and procrastination is often me suffering from a fundamental lack of urgency necessary to motivate me as well, so I'm basically a Goldilocks of motivation where I need to thread the needle which, on one side, is a lack of a feeling of urgency and, on the other, is suffering from paralysing anxiety over the pressure completely overwhelming me. ʰᵒᵒʳᵃʸ!

mwah

Oh sorry you said kick

GET BACK TO WORK, YOU FILTHY AVIAN