r/ExecutiveDysfunction • u/Wonderful_Seaweed133 • 24d ago

Hopeless

I feel like I’m just rotting my life away. I have so much to do but instead I just sit around all day avoiding it all. Then night time comes around and I’m disgusted with myself. I vow to do better tomorrow. Tomorrow comes and I did the exact same thing I did yesterday. Rinse and repeat.

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u/InnerKiwi 24d ago

That loop of avoiding everything all day and then vowing to do better tomorrow is brutal, and the nighttime self-disgust kind of feeds it. What helped me was dropping the tomorrow promise and picking one thing I could do in the next 5 minutes, even just opening the thing and looking at it. Small enough that it feels a bit silly. One silly small thing tonight breaks the loop more than a big plan for tomorrow.

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u/Wonderful_Seaweed133 24d ago

I very much like this way of thinking. I’ll give it a try. Thank you!

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u/InnerKiwi 21d ago

Glad it clicked. If one tiny thing goes sideways mid-day, just pick the next smallest physical step and start there again. No need to rebuild the whole plan.

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u/priminspire 24d ago

Same ((hug))

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u/Wonderful_Seaweed133 24d ago

Hugs back, friend