theunicorniestace

Lifehack: When you have to do something you don't want to do, make a little deal with yourself. (E.g. If I make this call, I can then spend the next hour crocheting). Sometimes, you also need to include consequences for not doing the thing (E.g. If you don't make the call, you have to spend the hour you could have been crocheting. You have to do homework instead). It works pretty well, but you must actually implement the consequences in the case of failure. You know, like how parents do with children. Only you know that you are both the child and the grownup.

Some days, I am extremely jealous of my dog and then I remember that while I am stopped from doing what I love (crocheting and reading) by social obligations she is stopped from doing what she loves (chasing rabbits through the entire neighborhood) by the will of other people. But then I remember that she has never had too much to do to go to sleep whenever she feels like it so maybe it would be a fair trade.