bro how do you make yourself do stuff? i need to finish my diss prospectus and id rather lay and stare at ceiling than ever do anything again
ohh so impossible. so so impossible. okay first step is to not be mid-depressive episode. if that's squared away:
impose accountability. i recommend the strategy that i recommend to my undergrads on peer review workshop days: choose someone who seems capable of psychologically damaging you.
accountability but make it immediate. i will cowork with friends and we'll start by saying, in this 40m session i will.... and then if i don't do the thing i will have to explain myself. oof.
accountability but make it immediate, deranged, and panoptic. in moments of true desperation my virtual coworking friend and i will sometimes share our screens so we can actively surveil each other.
break it up. there was a period last spring where i was KILLING it at stardewdoro, which is when you play one day of stardew valley and then do one task from your list, ad infinitum. this does require you to:
lower your standards, especially for quantity--sometimes i cannot face the Big Task but if i tell myself, actually the goal is not "start the chapter," the goal is
i am vastly more likely to attempt it. i made eye contact this morning and that got me started on making my tbr list, which is a separate task that is now less of a Thing because i already have it started.
yap about it. i feel this lowers the barrier to entry but you have GOT to be careful bc sometimes talking about doing something pings the part of your brain that rewards you for actually doing it. you do still actually need to do it.
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