[d33lio]

I'm horrible at work from home. After about a year of brute-force methods to try to get myself to focus, or to improve my impulse control when so many distractions are immediately present lead me to come to accept one signal is above all in indicating I'm on the right track. Telling myself no.

So now, especially in the morning - if I catch myself thinking "just 15 min of YouTube" or "maybe ten more minutes of sleep before working out" I make conceited effort to tell myself "no" and actively do what I completely acknowledge I do not want to do. Ironically I sort of caught on to this signal in college when I was a horrible procrastinator and didn't yet know I was ADHD. It's a bit extreme, but always doing what you're most actively avoiding has started to work for me. Only took me a year of being locked in my apt to figure it out...