Do it every time you remember and don’t torture yourself if you forget. Force yourself at first and set up reminders, post-it notes, alarms, whatever.
At first you’ll be annoyed, you may even feel dumb but after a month or two it will become habit and you’ll forget less and less … after a few more months it will become automatic… after a few years you’ll become so attached to whatever it is you’ll feel strange not doing it.
It’s how I maintained daily journal writing for so many years. Don’t get me wrong, years ago I was sporadic and did an entry once a week, sometimes once a month or skipped an entire summer but now I do it every day. Some days my entries are long, some days I only write a sentence or two but I always get myself to record something every time.
Now I feel strange when I don’t fill in my daily writeup.
Setting up immich and seeing the memories of what I did on this day x years ago made me want to take pictures every day of whatever like food or something I did at work just so next year I can see what I did, I wonder if there is a journal app that has a feature like that
This only works for normies. No matter how hard I try to set a habit, ADHD-induced executive disfunction comes knocking on the door and reminds me why I can’t have nice things.
I can keep habits until I travel. 8 months of gym, then go on holiday for a long weekend, and forget that the gym ever existed.
It seems meds have been preventing this and the gym habit has persisted through a couple of trips. But I’m fairly new to meds, so we’ll see how long I can keep this up…
Repetition and consistency
Do it every time you remember and don’t torture yourself if you forget. Force yourself at first and set up reminders, post-it notes, alarms, whatever.
At first you’ll be annoyed, you may even feel dumb but after a month or two it will become habit and you’ll forget less and less … after a few more months it will become automatic… after a few years you’ll become so attached to whatever it is you’ll feel strange not doing it.
It’s how I maintained daily journal writing for so many years. Don’t get me wrong, years ago I was sporadic and did an entry once a week, sometimes once a month or skipped an entire summer but now I do it every day. Some days my entries are long, some days I only write a sentence or two but I always get myself to record something every time.
Now I feel strange when I don’t fill in my daily writeup.
Setting up immich and seeing the memories of what I did on this day x years ago made me want to take pictures every day of whatever like food or something I did at work just so next year I can see what I did, I wonder if there is a journal app that has a feature like that
This only works for normies. No matter how hard I try to set a habit, ADHD-induced executive disfunction comes knocking on the door and reminds me why I can’t have nice things.
I can force myself to do something for months, but if I miss even a single day all is fucking gone
Habits? What are habits??? Cause my brain doesn’t fucking understand them apparently.
Makes me angry cry
I can keep habits until I travel. 8 months of gym, then go on holiday for a long weekend, and forget that the gym ever existed.
It seems meds have been preventing this and the gym habit has persisted through a couple of trips. But I’m fairly new to meds, so we’ll see how long I can keep this up…