Having someone who's dependent on your care can absolutely be a driver for kicking executive dysfunction's butt! For me it was my first child. She'd wake up in the middle of the night and I'd try everything except for the diaper and save the diaper for absolute last because I didn't want to change it, and it was just a little wet so it was fine. Quickly learned that was just a waste of time and forcing me to be zombie awake for longer so I finally just stopped putting it off and would change her diaper as one of the first steps of the middle of the night wakeup routine. Routine complete much faster and with much less laying back down and then getting back up.