Its why I love “getting organized” and making a well structured plan of what I will do the next day. It makes me feel so accomplished that I wake up the next morning and realize I already got all the dopamine I could get from making the plan. It’s basically like I already did all those things. So there is no reason to rush and do them now.
The key is to do just enough so you woke up feeling the need to complete the tasks. It’s a constant struggle. Sometimes it feels you did too little and was like “why do I bother” and end up postponing everything and the other end is what you’ve just described.
Me in executive dysfunction, imagining how sweet it would be to be done with the task:
I hate how relatable this is.
Its why I love “getting organized” and making a well structured plan of what I will do the next day. It makes me feel so accomplished that I wake up the next morning and realize I already got all the dopamine I could get from making the plan. It’s basically like I already did all those things. So there is no reason to rush and do them now.
The key is to do just enough so you woke up feeling the need to complete the tasks. It’s a constant struggle. Sometimes it feels you did too little and was like “why do I bother” and end up postponing everything and the other end is what you’ve just described.
But when I got it right, chef’s kiss