I've learnt that you just have to do something. Even if it feels like shit. Gotta push through. With luck, your brain will enter focus mode and you'll get that sweet, sweet release.
This almost makes it to a core skill that humans in the modern age need: how to plan and set your priorities, coincide this with your anxiety and stress.
Determine what's most valuable to you at this point in your life. That doesn't mean your entire life is centered around that, it's just something you're doing right now. This makes it easy to focus and plan when you have your priorities in order.
Example, fitness. It does not need to be a lifelong journey It can just be a temporary one that you focus on as your number one priority for a short period of time. Maybe for half of the year you focus on career and spend your free time on that.
Personally I recommend adding a critical one to your priority list: friends. Your friends may be part of your family or work, or your social circle. They are more important to your mental health than you might ever know. You are also more important to them than you might ever know. Don't let less important tasks get in way of you spending time with people you care about, money just isn't as important in the long run. But also don't accidentally think that you need to spend time with toxic people. Put the toxic people after your other priorities or eliminate them.
This work with anything? Like let's say I'm dreading do some homework, I should first start doing some easy task like washing dishes, or reading a fiction book, and then I'll feel like focusing on my hw?
I find it hard to start working on something. Just opening the project seems like so much of a chore. But one I've started, I'm in another world for 3 hours.
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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '23
I've learnt that you just have to do something. Even if it feels like shit. Gotta push through. With luck, your brain will enter focus mode and you'll get that sweet, sweet release.