The tasks that would have taken six minutes then but take several days and hundreds of dollars now are even better.
Me every time I visit my mother in law
Just an oil change turned into serpentine belt, brake, and rotor replacement.
Just clean the two story gutters turns into a full gutter replacement and patching some shingles
Ok, Ok. I have been properly shamed into sweeping the floor. Fuck you very much.
Nice, now you're set til 2030
I bought a robot vacuum simply because I am incredibly lazy. Guess what? I'm often even too lazy to run the robot vacuum lol.
Bought a robot vacuum a few months ago. I have been putting off cable management so it doesn't get stuck on them lmao
I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
It's nice to know I'm not alone at being incapable.
And it only caused years of anxiety about not doing it. As usual.
ADHD brain at work.
What helped me was the realisation that procrastrination was a loop of distracting myself to avoid feeling bad about not having done the thing yet.
It unlocked the ability to go "Does this actually need doing?" and if so "I feel bad about doing this and would like to escape it by doing something more fun right now, but that will make me feel worse later so I'll just do it now and accept feeling bad for a few moments while starting the task"
Some tasks don't actually need doing and then I can stop feeling bad about them
YMMV
Damn it, just read this out in the mind using the voice of Professor Hubert
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