Recently I feel like I’m working, sleeping, or waiting for work to start. I hate it, I can’t figure out how to break this waiting mode. Does anyone have any advise?

EDIT: That ADHD moment where you see loads of people have given great advice, but there’s so much it’s overwhelming! Thank you all, I’ll try and go through and implement what I can

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s how I feel when I’m not invested in my free time. When I have a video game that I’m trying to finish, or an activity planned after work, I jump into it and spend my time pretty well. (I don’t care what you think, I’m considering 5 hours of progress in Final Fantasy a good use of time.)

    When there’s no plans, and nothing in particular that’s grabbed my interest, I kind of just sit and wait for something to happen.

  • harmonicPerc@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Are you able to structure your day so that when you wake up you immediately go to work? That way when you finish work, you have the rest of the day to shift gears and more fully engage with any hobbies or other non work things that you want to pursue

  • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I hope you find an answer. It’s way past morning, and all day long I’ve been pacing back and forth because I need to go the bank later.

  • SwearingRobin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To me waiting mode is caused by not trusting myself to not loose track of time if I start doing something else. So I count back the time it will take me to be ready and in the right location and put a bunch of reminders/alarms.

    For example, I need to be at the dentist at 4pm. I check Google maps on the time estimate for me to get there (I even put in the arrive time to account for traffic), then I add the time for me to be ready to leave, to park my car, to be there early, adding a bit of a buffer on every step. Then depending on what I want to do before the dentist I put in alarms. If I can stop any time I put an alarm for the time I need to get ready. If I need a bit of a buffer to finish something I put one half an hour early and one at the time to get ready.

    Adding some extra times to the estimate is good because we are notoriously bad at estimating times. You get better the more you do it