Wonderful. It's 10:43AM right now. I'll start at 5:37PM. Thanks for the tip!
Fuck! It's 5:49PM now. Guess I'll wait until tomorrow to try again.
Haha, No, I cannot
Ah damn it's 15:03 I missed it, geuss I'll have to play games some more and try again at 16:00
My brain also tries to trick me with that kind of thoughts, but I'm not getting fooled.
im 37. i was diagnosed half a year ago with adhd. now i take medication and started to lurk in this community. i wanted to write "blasphemy" but i see i found a new home 😂 i feel seen
I don't know which arrow to click for this.
what's next? start working out in april?
But if I start doing it at 5:37, I'll always have to do it at that exact time.
Correction: if I start at 5:37 I have to stop precisely at 6:37 to have studied for an hour. Much easier to start and stop at 6 and 7. Mhm.
Pro tip. Study in 50 or 55 minute increments. Start at 5:05/5:00 and end at 5:55. Makes the time you dedicate feel significantly shorter (I mean it is by 5/10 minutes but you get my point) as it's in the same hour. It also fits the college class schedule style. Those 60 minute class timeslots always feel so much better than the 90 minute ones do.
I don't actually ever stop at the correct time. But actually starting it is the hardest part. Treating it like a quick class period helps me.
What are we studying??
The blade
just because i need to hear this doesn't mean i want to hear this :(
Nah, minutes have to be either a multiple of 5 or a power of two, ideally also a perfect square. Hours have to be an even number less than 10 but greater than 3. And not on a weekend, regional holiday, or day immediately preceding or succeeding either.
And the form must be filed in triplicate.
As long as I can spend 23 minutes bitching about having to start at a weird time
You can also start going down a completely unrelated rabbit hole
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But then I have to stop at an uneven time and that's worse
Otherwise how can I keep proper track of how long I've studied? All my statistics will be weird and wonky and wrong!
I’m still trying to get out of bed at a reasonable round number… studying? We are definitely building up to that.
Aw Bean, do you have a diagnosis? I was pretty anti-stimulant at first, and have come around on them for this reason. I have a watch that vibrates an hour before I need to be up, take the stim, go back to sleep, and then waking up at my chosen time is easier. My sleep schedule rn is 4a - noon, so my watch buzzes at 11, the pill is in a ramiken, my water cup has a lid so I'm confident the water doesn't have anything in it, sometimes it's still cold. It has taken me 3 years to find a regiment to help wrest some control over my sleep schedule.
Implementation intention can also be a good thing, though.
Starting at 6:00 is better than trying to force it "right now", failing, and doing nothing. Or exerting more willpower and pain than necessary.
How did you pick the unroundedest of numbers‽
That would be 11:17 AM
FOH with that bullshit.
You're right =(
I don't have to wait another 4 minutes because I missed the :45, I'll go do it now XD
As someone who should study: I just don't.
no way, terrible vibes
I beg to differ.
i'll wait til 5:73
that's not a section in my content though
Aaah I wish it was studying!! I'm procrastinating on sending in the documents to finally drop out of University, gotta do it until the end of the month ugh (I've stayed signed up for the past 4 years just for the bus ticket and the good cafeteria food)
You mean I don't have to wait till 12:07am to decide to do some writing?
You can even schedule things at odd times. Nothing like saying you only have 12:27, 1:48, and 2:31 open in your schedule.
5:35 am and haven't really started studying
or even better, set a pomodoro.
Maybe even on easy mode (5 or 10 min) to bootstart studying, let it ring once, nod at the pomodoro and keep in the flow.
Or.... if you felt a strong urge to not study in these 5 or 10 min, nod at the pomodoro and says "Thanks Cthullu I'm free from this time prison!" and move on.
I personally hate doing pauses with pomodoro, so I just use it to make sure I did at least one pomodoro unit of time of whatever the fuck I planned to do (But I do pause once I start hitting a wall or getting tired)
5:27 or 5:32… the numbers need to add or subtract for my brain to accept it.
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