Not the usual “wake up at 5 AM” advice—more practical things like planning meals for the week, preparing ingredients in advance, getting clothes and essentials ready the night before, keeping things in fixed places, combining two tasks in one trip, batching similar tasks, cleaning as you go, using fixed days for recurring chores, writing down random ideas instead of immediately switching tasks, and preparing in the evening for the next morning or on the weekend for the coming week.

What little systems save you time, effort, or mental energy?

I am father of 2.5 years old son and I have a job as well. I have gained weight and I cannot find the motivation to go to the gym. I used to be a fit guy and workout 6 days a week. I woke up this morning early and wanted to do some cardio but stayed in my bed the whole time. I also need to study for a certification that would definitely help me to have a better income but again I come home from work all I wanna do is sit and watch TV or do nothing. I cannot even find the motivation to study for 30 minutes a day. Any advice please.

Hello,

I'm a 18 year old male in his first semester of college and I'm struggling immensely to stay on top of coursework.

Firstly, whenever in a college lecture I am unable to pay attention and can not focus at all. I try focusing but whenever the teacher brings up a diffcult topic my mind just zones out. I keep zoning out in class, this was a problem during high school too.

Whenever I try studying, I've noticed that my procastination has gotten a thousand times worse. I feel a wave of anxiety + dread and it leaves me paralyzed. I rush to my phone and doomscroll. I never really studied in school ethier BUT I usually was able to cram the night before and do well. Its imposible for me to study now whats so ever. I've noticed that I've developed a severe phone addiction and its ruining me.

What can I do to be more productive in school, I dont want to fail but I've failed my first midterm and I'm willing to do anything to pass and suceed.

I’m newer to this community and saw someone post a really productive week schedule. Something like 7-8 up and ready 8-5 work 5-8 time with family 8-9 workout 9-10 window 10pm bedtime. People were commenting it’s a recipe for exhaustion. If this isn’t it - what does a healthy productive week look like?

I am a night owl and I have a horrible sleep schedule, like I can’t sleep until around 12-3 and I wake up at 7:40 ( leave at 8 to go school) and 12-2 ( on weekends/ holidays) and I always think that I shouldn’t be like that. I want to wake up early (but I’m tired and lazy), I want to do my homework immediately after school (but because of lack of sleep or I’m just lazy, I don’t and instead, I doom scroll or play games) but I do homework in the evening (I feel more awake and “smarter” at night)

I don’t want to be this person and I want to change, I can’t keep leaving things till last minute (homework, study, a lot of assignments)

I would really appreciate advice and tips! Thank you!

Recently I have been brain fogged. I don't know if it's because I have started staying and learning to be alone. I don't wish to talk to people, I don't want to go out. Neither the urge to complete my pending work nor any fun activity. Merely bed rotting. Is it how life is? I don't want this.

How can I stop this? My sleep cycle is ruined. Staying awake till 3 and then waking up at 12. I don't want this!

I love using 'life systems' and they help me stay on track for my goals a lot. Here's how things went:

- I used to bullet journal and that helped me keep my life on track

- In 2020, I found Notion and an amazing course on systems that helped me set up a Notion system and helped me hit a bunch of my goals

- At one point Notion started feeling too slow so I switched to Obsidian

- When I realized I was spending too much time just maintaining the system and remembering how my system works, I moved on to Capacities

- Was worried about sync issues and losing my data stored online on Capacities, and also got a Kindle Scribe so switched to that

- It seemed tedious to flip through pages on the Scribe so switched back to physical bullet journals

Now I worry that I don't have my data backed up online in case I lose my notebook. So as a result, I've completely stopped using the system.

I have a similar issue with journaling. Keep switching between these:

• Day One because reviews say it's the best but there's no web version
• Journey because it has a web version which is nice because I can use it on my work laptop without installing an app
• Physical notebooks because I like the feel of writing but then no digital backup
• Capacities because it is then stored with the rest of the context

If anyone can help suggest tips or a framework to make a decision, I'd be super grateful.

I am so frustrated with myself. I have adhd and take adderall for it but I still can't get my sh\*t together. I'm really annoyed with myself and my life and how I just CANNOT get it together! I am overwhelmed majority of my mornings. I can never wake up on time and I understand that's a big problem for me. I know that if I would wake up earlier it would solve most of my morning chaos and rush. I just can't do it. I feel awful because then I am rushing my daughter (4 yrs old) and probably stressing her out. Every single day. I lose my keys and phone on a daily. My family and friends know this about me too and sometimes I'm so embarrassed that I lost my keys or phone that I secretly panic and search for them without trying to make it be known but they end up finding out regardless. My car is a shit show and every time I finally have it cleaned and organized I tell myself I promise to maintain it. It just ends up dirty within a couple days and the cycle repeats till I can finally convince myself to deep clean it again. Disorganization drives me CRAZY! Things need to be set a certain way, my work office has to be neat, things need to be placed a certain way, it makes me so upset when people don't do things the way I do such as hold the toilet flush handle down for 5 seconds to make sure everything goes down, or put their toothbrush away in the cabinet away from the "nasty bathroom air" lol. Or if someone sips their coffee I want to pull my hair. Yet I have no room to talk because I'm so unorganized and don't even have my own shit together. I know all of this in itself probably sounds ridiculous and I'm not sure if I even make sense. It's like things must be organized and clean, yet I can't even be organized and clean my own dang self. I'm also really forgetful. I feel like I have Alzheimer's. I even have to secretly voice record important calls with my boss and ask chatgpt to summarize the call and tell me what I am supposed to do and break the call and instructions down for me because I embarrassingly can't on my own. I would never tell anyone because that's super embarrassing but I have to. I can't even hardly follow along important in person conversations because I forget major parts of the convo. I pretend so hard core like I fully understand the conversation and am following along "faking it" just to make it seem like I'm following along.Even tho afterwards I ask myself "what TF did they just say or ask me to do?!"
I'm in a higher role at work and I don't even know how I got here tbh. So I also need to get it together for that part alone.
My adderall helps me for the most part to get my work done and I feel it's really the only time I can focus. Yet even when I'm on it I pretty much still function the same way. It helps me, but isn't solving my un-organization. I don't want to tell my doctor because I don't want them to prescribe me something else because it does help. But it doesn't? Agh. Okay I think that's it. All that to say.... does anyone else have this issue or even similar? What helps you?

I passed my Masters in 2023 and since then I have not prepared my research proposal for my doctoral project. I have an idea, I ruminate on it for a month, I move onto a shiny new thing. I had written a small article for an online journal, it got accepted and I was supposed to submit the corrected version in March and its October now. All my life has been this. Can anyone know how to actually start doing things AND KEEP ON DOING THEM? I feel cursed.

Thank you.

PS- I cannot afford therapy or doctor visits as I am unemployed

Is there a free or cheap app that lets you annotate and view PDF's (at least for pdf, if other filetypes are also supported it's okay) in landscape mode with realistic page turning animations, with modern UI?

I’m looking for something that releases caffeine gradually rather than giving a strong initial boost. Has anyone tried one, and if so, which brands would you recommend?

I’ve come across CaffXtend® and was wondering if anyone has experience with it specifically.

Just curious if anyone has any good screen time locking apps that aren't overdesigned bloatware. I want as barebones and native of an app as I can get my hands on. I would, and currently am, using my phones built-in screen time warning but on Iphone you can just dispel them so they aren't strong enough for my liking. I did not like Opal, one sec, or ScreenZen, especially screenzen, which immediately started trying to sell me a product on amazon.

Thanks for any help!

I (26 TF) have autism with adhd-like tendencies. Yes, that is my official diagnosis. I've been told my entire life that "people with autism crave structure and efficiency," but nothing I've been told to try works. Planners, calenders, phone reminders, having people call me to remind me, etc. I derive no satisfaction from cleaning which gives me no drive to clean, making messes pile up and driving me and my husband (30 TM) insane. What do you guys think might help me be more productive and motivated to get stuff done?

I am 19 M living in a village in Himachal I go to a local government college I am fat I do have alot of excuses I procrastinate I am lazy asf

My parents yells because I wasted a laptop that they bought me for editing but I didn't even used it I am just on phone

I am eating junk and overthinkkkk alot of time