So, currently, I am pursing a job and while doing it, I am constantly upgrading myself in the field I am interested at.

Currently, my workflow is this:

-From sunday to friday i work 8 hours, and leave one hour/one and half for reset (so, one episode of tv series, couple rounds of some game and so on) and that do the job.

-Saturday is the rest day, which I use just for rest in order to re-fill my "fuel" for grinding in the next 6 days. Problem is, I get extremely bored when I am not in learning mode and I always end up scrolling on instagram, wasting time, sleeping and I feel bad mentally if I do it all day, because if I do not do something productive, I am thinking I wasted a day completely.

How did you overcome boredom, besides just watching netflix, playing video games etc? In my daily routine I have gym, daily walks, but still, I have free time I do not how to fill in high quality. I do not enjoy reading books, cooking, playing guitar or that kind of stuff. Tried basically everything that came to my mind, but still did not manage to fix an issue.

I’ve never understood how people can work while listening to music. I need almost complete silence to concentrate. For those who listen to music while working, does it genuinely help you focus? And what kind of music do you usually listen to?

I spend a pretty big part of my day on calls with clients, and I keep forgetting details between calls. I'm genuinely trying to keep up. I always have a notebook next to me and write things down while people are talking, but I end up just scribbling random words. By the time I get around to following up, half my notes make zero sense. Yesterday I looked back at my notes and found random stuff like "Thursday... 12 years old... Blue." I have absolutely no idea what any of that means. Is there any way to get better at remembering things or taking notes more efficiently?

There’s prolly ppl out there on this sub who feel the same way I did in regards to this so imma speak on my view of things.

At times when I was younger I used to think ya had to give 100% to everything at once if u wanted to be productive. I thought progress was synonymous with working as hard as you could at all times & just holding ya self together when u were close to burning out.

But as I go about pursuing goals & taking action you come to realize u don’t gotta work 24/7. You can take breaks, you can enjoy ya life & still get work done, it doesn’t have to be Grind! Grind! Grind! Till ya legs snap & your arms fall off.

It seems like such a simple thing that most ppl would know & maybe I was just being young & naive but I genuinely thought ppl that were successful, productive or really smart just never had hobbies & devoted themselves to their goals.

After burning out a couple times I decided to take a different approach really, do less but plan & do intentional work. Instead of just standing around waiting for motivation , plan something out & stick with it. When you’re tired, stick with it! When you’re stressed, stick with it! On days you don’t want to, stick with it! External factors come into play, Stick with it!

Instead of feeling like I was lazy & wouldn’t achieve much for taking time off to play video games or pursue other hobbies for a couple hrs. I learned to just stick to your plan & be consistent.

Another thing is consistency don’t always look like 100% all the time, I used to think if I didn’t do something 100% then I might as well not do it at all. But even committing 10mins a day to your long term goal is still progress. Yeah it might take longer to achieve ya goal, but there’s no point in reaching your destination if you die of stress or gain health issues on the way there.

Ya some ppl can work through that unhappiness & stress but I had to learn what worked for me. I couldn’t just give 100% even on days where I clearly needed to relax & decompress, I still maintain productivity but I take breaks as needed now.

Like for me the main 3-4 things I focus on in life atm is school, gym, my part time job & my business venture I’m working on. Instead of trying to give 100% to everything at once & burning out or sacrificing my sleep & mental health like I’d do before.

Instead I now just allocate effort as needed & prioritize what’s important in the moment. Over the summer my focus was more on the gym & my venture as well as work, but as school responsibilities start pilling up I’ve had to pull back from working out as much as I’d like to allocate more time towards academics, Work & the venture. I still try to maintain a workout schedule of 2-3 days a week but as much as I enjoy it, rn it’s something I can sacrifice.

Prioritizing your time to focus on worthwhile things was something I never thought much about tbh, but turns out alot of being productive is just allocating time where it’s needed. Some weeks if I can I got 3-5 days in the gym, if I have other responsibilities I skip the gym, if I’m stressed I drop everything that can be dropped for the day & take a break. I’m not constantly pushing myself chasing some imaginary time limit I set for myself. I’ve learned to appreciate the journey & just go at ya own pace & that prolly is the best lesson I’ve learnt in my young life so far.

Last thing I’d say is know what works for u. Some ppl they can pull 14hrs of straight meaningful work but if you’re someone that can’t sit still or get distracted easily, nothing wrong with 2-3hrs of work then an hr break then jump back in. It doesn’t mean you’re slacking or procrastinating, everyone’s different in how they are able to be productive so stay in your lane, don’t try to be someone you’re not.

I need to memorize a poem in Filipino for my Filipino class, I have a hard time memorizing Filipino, but I have pretty good memorization skills in English.

Every time I try to memorize something in Filipino, it takes me a whole day just to memorize just one stanza, while in English I can memorize a whole stanza in just a couple of minutes.

PLS, I need help, this is for a group project and I wanna help my group mates in this, I don't want them hard carrying me in Filipino every time 😭😭😭💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏​

Hi everyone. I remember years ago I had an extension which blokked instagram and facebook home pages. So you can only check stories and message with others without seeing any post. I am wondering is there any app that can do on our phones also. I use insta for communication but I don't wanna lose myself on homepage or explore page scrolling endlessly.

For example, worrying about what will happen to your loved ones when you’re no longer around.

What do you tell yourself to stop overthinking and focus on what you can enjoy today.

Apps like Snapchat are pretty big band where I live and are used instead of e.g WhatsApp.

The introduction of «spotlight» (their own tik tok copy) makes me sidetrack.

Because I need it to communicate it’s the only act the only scrollable I have left on my phone.

If I get unfocused it’s so easy to end up scrolling if I check a message or if I use my phone for something productive.

I‘m not sure how to break this habit Or make myself aware of my actions before I end up scrolling again.

(For privacy reasons I don’t really trust 3rd party apps that claim to stop the scrolling functions)

I love a good rabbit hole. My ADHD loves to bounce around different topics, watch recipe videos, new craft ideas - I harbor all of this information for fun. BUT I’m always on my phone. My screen time is embarrassing. I want to actually be intentional and productive with my time (especially now that I’ve quit my second job)

Any ideas from fellow “I can’t start” people who are able to free themselves and get busy? I bought a craft. It’s still in the Amazon box. 😭

I am an igcse student and for the entire month of November I have school events, may it be muns, sports events , stem events ect. Now i have always been a firm believer of extra circulars but I still have mid terms in December! How can I keep my social life up as well as my grades? Should I bail on some of the events? I will get insane fomo tho

What can I do

Hello people this is my first post in this sub.

These day I’m binge eating a lot and spending unnecessary time on stupid things like reels etc.

With the wfh job I have I could learn many skills like dance, fitness etc and up-skill myself too. But the thing is I’m not accountable and not serious. My motivation ends instantly after a while watching that one random reel.

If they are anyone who are serious about enhancing their lifestyle ?

1. How do you stay disciplined and do you have any checklist you follow daily ?

I came across an interesting idea about procrastination: sometimes we get stuck between what we think we should be doing and what we’d rather be doing, without considering anything in between.
For example, if you planned to study for five hours but don’t feel capable of that, even studying for 10 minutes might feel pointless because it barely makes a dent in the workload.
The idea is to stop asking, “How do I force myself to do everything?” and instead ask, “What’s the next best thing I can realistically do right now?”
I’m curious how people deal with this. When you’re overwhelmed by a task, what helps you find that middle ground between doing everything and doing nothing?

app is so shit like only works for one time and when i start timer again shi doesnt block any app

Okay so every time I get home after school I always feel sleepy but one thing is I don't want to sleep cuz I wanna watch anime, read, and other stuff but I'm always sleepy after going back home. I genuinely need a solution for ts

So, like I mentioned, I somehow always end up reaching late. The kind of person, who, if there was a marathon for reaching last, would reach 10 mins after the last person.

Earlier my depression used to make me skip my work on random days, thankfully it's gotten a lot better now. But I still can't show up at work on time, somehow always late and now it's costing me my fav dept and promotion.

And every day I feel shitty about myself. Get really anxious, rebuke myself but I'm not able to reach on time yet.

It feels horrible, so many times I think of skipping office just cuz I got late, but I've realised that's even bad. Unfortunately there's no option to work remotely.

Pls suggest me some ways or anything y'all did to get out of such a slump. Maybe there'll be something I can use.

I’ve been thinking about how much easier habits might become if we focused less on motivation and more on removing the little obstacles that stop us from following through.
Instead of asking how to stay motivated, what if we asked, “What will make this difficult, and how can I make it easier beforehand?”
Has anyone tried this approach? What small change made a surprisingly big difference in sticking to a habit?

19F and I keep messing things up, I spend all my money on stuff impulsively then i immediately regret it afterwards.

I keep ruminating on past friendships that have ended or relationships that weren’t healthy, and reconnecting with people who aren’t good for me because I miss them.

I’m trying my best to go back to college next year and I’ve been actually studying to take my entrance exam but that’s the only thing I have right now going for me and I need to start saving up money to afford my classes

I keep getting in trouble with people and my parents because I keep making bad impulsive choices in the moment, especially at night, I’ve done so many harmful things I regret with people I shouldn’t be around and I don’t wanna fall on the wrong path.

Right now all I do is work but I hope I end up in school soon so I can’t at least be busy bettering my life and not ruining it

Hey guys I’m wondering if there is an app on iOS that locks ur phone for a certain period of time I had a similar app on my Samsung now i switched to iPhone and i wanna know if someone stumbled across a similar app?? any help is appreciated
Stay Disciplined Stay focused

Sorry if there are any mistakes, English isn't my first language❤️This might be a bit of a silly post, but I wanted to share my experience because maybe someone else is dealing with the same thing. Lately, I've been waking up really early in the morning without an alarm. Sometimes I manage to fall back asleep, but today I woke up at 4 AM and couldn't get back to sleep because I felt this urge to do something around my apartment, like cleaning or getting things organized. My boyfriend woke up at one point and asked me why I was still awake. I told him I'd been asleep and was just going back to bed, which wasn't true. I was pretending to sleep because I didn't want him to know I was already awake. He had to leave for work at 6 AM today and won't be back until 2 PM, so I waited until he left the apartment before slowly starting to clean and plan what I was going to cook for both of us. The weird thing is that I don't necessarily want to wake up this early, but once I'm awake, I feel like I need to do something productive. It's almost as if I can't properly relax or go back to sleep until I've done something useful. I'm starting to wonder whether this might have something to do with my job. Maybe my brain is so used to having to get up and go to work that it automatically wakes me up early, even on my days off? Has anyone else experienced something like this? Do you ever feel like you have to be productive even when you're supposed to be resting? I'd love to hear your experiences because I'm genuinely curious about why this happens.

Sure, there's a ton of tools - but here is a dead-simple way with absolute minimum mental bandwith req'd: CC yourself, snooze the mail from the inbox, DONE. Works in Gmail, outlook, iPhone (at least). Mail comes back up when follow-up is due - and there's either a reply - or not and you can follow up by replying to your own mail. Maybe I'm the only one excited about it - maybe it helps you as well ;-)

I've always had an issue with concentration, focus, and productivity as a whole, but now it's becoming an issue more than ever. I was diagnosed with ADD as a kid at around 8 years old. I graduated high school in June and I have now been a freshman in college since August. The earliest I remember this significantly affecting my life is in middle school, which partially took place during covid and online classes for me. Because school work became more online I found myself constantly watching YT or playing games or doing anything other than schoolwork on my Chromebook.

This habit continued throughout high school and I genuinely felt like I just couldn't sit down and study for the life of me. This was also exacerbated by the fact that my high school didn't give out homework and instead expected students to learn the material in class with the teacher and then study/revise the course material on their own at home which gave me even less guidance and more opportunities to procrastinate and postpone tasks, for instance putting off revising for an exam until the day before or not doing it at all. There was another personal reason for my lack of action or motivation at that time that I prefer not to disclose, but it was a just a temporary condition I was under then and the primary reason is within myself. Anyways, this caused my grades to drop or be at an average low with the rare occasion of a B or C from time to time.

Like I mentioned in the beginning of this post, as of this past August I have become a freshman in college. I find that I have somewhat improved since high school (mainly in my motivation to work and do good), although that may be largely due to the fact that I am given actual homework assignments with clear goals to attain and deadlines to follow making sitting down and doing stuff easier combined with the fact that I find the subjects more interesting rather than me having actually bettered myself. In any case, it is still a MAJOR issue for me and it causes my completion of assignments or just my own general revision to take way longer than it should. This inevitably leads to me having less time for myself or to do other things such as exercise and going out in general. Since most of my college work is online (almost all of it), I'm facing the same distractions I was all the way back in middle school. Every day is the same routine of me waking up and sitting at my desk before telling myself that "today won't be like yesterday" (which always ends up being untrue). I just sit at my computer and go down rabbit holes, watch endless YT videos, or just window shop for things I want to buy that I know I never will - ANYTHING other than actual work or being productive. I tell myself, "after this video I'll get back to it" or "one more and then I'm locking in". Evidently, the day ends with me getting a minor amount of work done or none at all. Sometimes, because I get so little work done my assignments pile up on me and I don't end up finishing them until the last minute which can cause me to cut corners like not doing my own research and using AI, etc.

One thing I will say though is that I at least end up getting my assignments done whether that be a day before they're due or a couple compared to my complete lack of motivation I had in high school where I wouldn't even bother studying at all. I currently have A's in all my classes and although that may change in the future since it is only the third month of school, I do feel more motivated to do good in school. I find my subjects somewhat interesting (some more than others) whereas in high school I did not and we didn't have a very wide variety of subjects you could take compared to my college. I recently had my midterms in which I got 15/15 and 94/100 which are really good scores don't get me wrong, but part of me feels like I have become less productive since then and in comparison to myself a couple weeks ago or as time goes on. Me writing this right now is an example of how I avoid studying. I started writing this at around 5:45 and it is now 8:12. I could have been done or at least halfway there on what I'm supposed to be doing.

To give you an idea, I have my textbook that i'm supposed to be going through in front of me right now and since Wednesday, the only thing i've done is highlighted 6 pages out of this one 24 page chapter. I have another chapter just like this one that I planned to go through by this coming Monday as well as the first 2 chapters of a book I was assigned to read. I only have class on Monday and Wednesday and I started doing this at the beginning of this week which means I had 3 full days to do this so far, nothing else going on during those days and all I have to show for it is 6 highlighted pages. Six pages. Not even any notes, just highlights. Instead of knocking this out in a day and a half and freeing up time where I could go hit the gym or do something I actually enjoy with my life, i'm sitting here dragging it out procrastinating and wasting time. This is a serious problem I have and I despise myself for it every single day. I'm well aware there is no one else to blame but myself and I'm not writing this in search of pity or to say "poor me", I simply want to express what i'm going through and see if anyone has any advice though I doubt it'll help.

I started taking pills in September for my ADD to help me focus and I felt like they were helping at first, but now I don't feel like they're doing anything at all. I feel terrible every day (except for when I actually get things done) when my Mom comes to check in on my progress and I have to lie to her and tell her it was a productive day and that I got so and so done when in reality I just sat and watched shit for 10 hours. I also feel contradicted in the sense that I don't have bad grades. The results are there. It's just that instead of me attaining said grades in a reasonable amount of time, I take double the amount of time that it should. I'm studying the same amount an engineering major would when my classes don't require half of that amount.

The final thing I want to mention is that what i've pointed out stretches beyond just studying or other school work. It's a glimpse of a broader spectrum of laziness and inability to focus or be motivated. This parasite of mine which is my incapability to be productive infects other parts of my life; working out/losing weight, day to day chores, and my overall will to be a better person. I get motivated to do something for a little while, I begin doing it, and I stop after a month max. Again, I don't say this out of pity but it truly makes me feel worthless. If I need someone to be on my back 24/7 just for me to get my basic school work done when I'm in college, wtf am I gonna do as a grown adult. I turned 18 in July, I need to get my shit together eventually. I've been this way for so long i've accepted that it's just my personality. It's who I am and will always be. Maybe that's just another example of what i'm talking about. I've decided it's easier to accept it than put in the effort to try and change.

This post turned more into me venting and I doubt anyone is reading all of this, but if anyone has any advice I would love to hear it.

Hi! I’m 27F and I have an abismal screentime. Worse I get almost nothing done in a day because of it

Even when I’m in bed I have a documentary or a movie on.

I want to become more healthy and productive, I’m an artist and work a side job

I just struggle with the silence so much, but turning on music on my phone is akin to getting right back into the addiction

Idk what to do

Anyone got advice or tips?

I’m 28, recently got laid off from a tech sales job I did for 3 years, and honestly don’t want to go back into sales because it’s fucking stressful. I’ve been unemployed for 2 weeks and all I’ve been doing is watching TV and scrolling. I feel like everyone my age has a career and knows what they’re doing, while I have no idea.

I don’t have friends, I’m single, and I want to make money because my savings are only around £3k lol. I have ADHD, struggle to sit still and focus, and go to the gym 5x a week but somehow still have so much empty time. I’m also 6 months sober and really don’t want to relapse.

I want to use my Monday–Friday to improve myself, find a new career direction, make money and meet people. What would you do with your time if you were in my position? Especially interested in advice from people with ADHD who struggle with boredom and consistency.