I have a routine that rivals a priest on Easter Sunday. But the best written homily doesn't undo the fact that the organist is about to start the prelude and for the life of me, I can't figure out where those damned communion wafers have gone even though I swear I just saw them!

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

100% this. I have routines mapped out so I don't have to figure everything out again once my mind decides it's time to let me function for a bit.

[–] ericwdhs@discuss.online 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This sounds like me. I've got a spreadsheet I go through daily with sections like "morning routine," "returning routine," "essential chores," "dinner routine," etc. It's set up to turn tasks green when I complete them so I get just enough of a dopamine hit to continue. There's also a dedicated column that's basically for "you've determined this is the optimal way to do this task after countless iterations; stop trying to rethink it and just do it."

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

There's something so comforting about learning other people have the same struggles I do. I've had to do the same thing regarding "optimizing" my routine, which is one of my favorite ways to procrastinate.