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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Intheultimate on 2024-01-06 05:04:18+00:00.
I have ADHD and anxiety. I’ve never been cleanly person, I don’t exercise, I’m fairly lazy. Im also going back to school at 35 and usually procrastinate in doing my schoolwork on top of every other daily task like housework or personal grooming. But sometimes even fun stuff, like it’s hard to have fun when you know you’re not doing stuff you probably should be doing.
My wife struggles with same issues, but she’s recently gotten on me enough times to get me to do certain things every day like wash the dishes or take out trash.
Finally doing stuff has made me realize how fulfilling it is to do something every day. I have started to enjoy doing this thing knowing it will make me happy and my wife happy and things will be more clean and orderly etc. I am very bad at making lists, I can spend days thinking about what I even should put on my list. Or I make a list and often get so overwhelmed once I see the 5,000 things I need to do.
But really what I’m looking for advice for, and it might seem simple. How do I figure out what to put on my list, what’s important to me etc. I feel like because so much of my life I’ve just not been doing shit it’s hard for me to even think of what a daily or a weekly or a monthly list would look like and what tasks would be on it? Is there somewhere where I can find the “follow these general tasks to live a happy healthy life” lol
If anyone has strategies for making lists or example lists and breaking down how you come up with it etc. I am making progress but really want to get disciplined and get on top of my shit