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Set insanely small goals. The inability to start often has to do with imagining the daunting tasks that lay ahead of you. The trick is to set almost pathetically small goals.
Your room is filled with messy laundry? Grab 1 shirt and toss it into a pile. That's it. You don't need to do the laundry, you don't need to gather any other clothes. Just 1 shirt, tossed into a pile that it wasn't in before. I bet there's one within arm reach of you right now.
Used dishes in your room? Aren't you thirsty? Sure you are! You probably haven't drank anything in a while. Go to the kitchen and get some water. While you're on your way, why don't you grab 1 dish and take it with you?
Momentum is a hell of a thing. Most of the time, all you need is something small to break your executive dysfunction. If you tossed 1 shirt into a pile, you might as well toss any clothing in arms reach. Those pants are just slightly out of reach, ok maybe you get up a little to toss those... And those socks... And maybe that shirt over there too. Suddenly, all your dirty clothes are gathered into a pile and it hardly took any time or energy. All it took was grabbing 1 shirt and tossing it.
And if you finish your insanely small task and you don't feel like doing any more? That's fine! You already met your goal! Hell, if you've got something you're struggling with and have taken the time to read this, you're already half-way there, because now you're thinking about what the smallest, stupidest, zero-effort goal you can set is.
Are you ready for the most important piece of life advice that no one ever tells you growing up? Anything worth doing is worth doing shitty.
I've been struggling with ADHD severely to where my life feels ruined/wasted, thank you for this tip.
That is what I figured out to help me. I get overwhelmed thinking about doing the whole thing. But if I just do anything, no matter how small, that's more than nothing. So yeah, cleaning, just get a plastic bag and grab a few pieces of trash within arms reach. Then some more. Then all of it. Momentum is a good way to describe it but for me its like compulsive nagging. Now that I've started the thing I'm thinking about the thing and can't stop thinking about it until its done.