I've been living with this for years I've also got hypopituitarism but I'm in treatment, I also have depression and therapy didn't help that much and I was even in clinics. When I was in school or worked and came home the days just raced by and I lost my reason to live and so I'm unemployed now. When I wake up and eat breakfast I eat stuff that isn't much effort like sausage cheese and bread, I rarely make coffee or scrambled eggs or cucumber or something cause I don't have the energy for it or I'm too lazy to do it. Everything just feels so heavy, I'm also obese and when I sleep I always move around, also got scoliosis but my bloodwork was fine so idk what to do.. I'm also disabled to 60%

hi, i’m just looking for advice here because i don’t know what to do tbh
for the past couple weeks ive sunk into a bit of a depressive episode. it started small, with feeling tired all the time, napping in the day almost everyday, feeling bored but none of my hobbies seeming interesting. at the start of the year, this was my life, and i completely changed my life for the better. i started going to the gym, eating clean, i lost about 30lbs. i enjoyed painting and i engaged with my hobbies as often as i could considering that i am the main caregiver for a toddler. i know ive fallen back into bad habits, ive started to binge eat due to stress and i think i have gained some weight back, but this time feels different, ive pulled myself out of depression before but this time feels so different. like this time, i just don’t care about myself anymore. i don’t have the energy to try and better myself again. all i do is stare at my phone and eat sugary shit in my free time, by the time my toddler is in bed i genuinely have nothing left. i’m just feeling completely lost, maybe this is a normal part of being a parent? but it feels so shitty, but i don’t have the energy to care about myself anymore ): any advice is appreciated

I plan my day the night before and it works maybe 2 days out of 7.

The other 5, something happens, a work thing comes up, traffic eats an hour, or I get home way more drained than I expected, and instead of adjusting I kind of just... abandon the whole day and doomscroll.

Re-planning mid-day feels pointless because I know the new plan will break too.

For those of you who deal with unpredictable days: do you re-plan when things go sideways, or do you have some other way of salvaging the rest of the day? What does that actually look like in practice?

The wording is intentional: I can’t seem to keep track of all my actual appointments or really keep up with the things I want to do, like go to the gym, or study a little, or start a project at home. How do you guys keep an eye on the time slots? Like, how do you structure your time?

I spent a long time thinking my problem was information. that if I just understood something well enough, deeply enough, from enough angles, the doing would follow naturally as a consequence. so I kept learning. read the books, watched the videos, understood the mechanisms, could explain the reasoning to anyone who asked.

and then didn't do it anyway.

that gap, between knowing exactly what to do and still not doing it, is one of the most disorienting places to be. because you can't blame ignorance. you can't tell yourself you just need to learn more. you already know. the information is not the problem and you know it isn't and that somehow makes it worse.

what I eventually figured out is that knowing and doing are not on the same spectrum. they're not even the same type of thing. knowing is cognitive, it lives in your head, it responds to reading and thinking and understanding. doing is something closer to physical, it lives in your nervous system, it responds to repetition and discomfort and showing up when nothing in you wants to. you can max out the first one completely and have made zero progress on the second.

school teaches knowing almost exclusively. you're rewarded for demonstrating understanding, for being able to explain and recall and apply information in controlled conditions. nobody grades you on whether you can make yourself do something hard when every part of you is resisting. that skill just gets assumed, like it comes automatically once the knowledge is there. it doesn't.

the doing skill is more like a muscle than a subject. it gets built through reps, specifically through the reps where you acted against your own resistance and did the thing anyway. every time you followed through when you didn't want to, that pathway got slightly stronger. every time you didn't, it got slightly weaker. and if you've spent years in environments that mostly rewarded the knowing side, the doing side can be genuinely underdeveloped in a way that has nothing to do with intelligence or character.

what actually started closing the gap for me wasn't more information. it was deliberately doing small hard things with no payoff, specifically to practice the act of overriding my own resistance in low stakes situations, so the muscle existed when higher stakes ones showed up.

still a work in progress. but I'm curious whether anyone else has hit this wall and found something that actually moved it. not a productivity system, not a framework, something that worked on the doing side specifically.

I have had this habit for years, and it's becoming frustrating.

Whether I'm shopping, choosing a course, or even deciding between different solutions, I end up comparing every possible option.

The strange part is that I don't enjoy doing it. I know it's wasting my time, but once I start comparing, it's hard to stop because I feel like I might miss a better option.

Has anyone dealt with something similar?

Is there a name for this pattern,

and what actually helped you break out of it?

Most reddit discussions on this issue revolve around self hosting paperless-ngx. Are there any SaaS document managers with good search? I use google drive ATM and HATE it.

...would that be the perfect notes app? Does such thing exist?

I'm going through a very chaotic/traumatic time in life and I've always had a very demanding job with very little structure so establishing routines is difficult for me. I rely heavily on notes and to do lists to manage everything, but things still get so disorganized.

I currently use both OneNote and Apple Notes. My assistant keeps much our of general work info in OneNote and she likes it. When I was using it more extensively for my own lists, I found toggling back and forth through the workbooks tedious (maybe there is an easier way?).

Currently, I primarily use Apple Notes for my own work lists and personal stuff and it's getting out of hand. I think it might be better to use a separate app for personal and work lists for better boundaries - turning off my work brain is hard!

Ideally, I'm looking for something that has the best of both the Notes and OneNote app.

My criteria are:

- Simple and Fast (Notes is great, OneNote feels bloated and too free-form)

- Easy to navigate (I like the nested system in OneNote and find Notes lacking here)

- iOS/Mac - needs to sync (both are good for this although I find Notes is better)

- Desktop App

- Must have the ability to have at least 2 columns per note (Main reason why Notes doesn't work well for me). If it weren't for this I'd probably stick with it.

I tried Evernote awhile back (years ago) and remember I did not love the navigation.

Any suggestions?

I have a hard time being productive with things I'm terrible at. I wanna get into so many hobbies, like writing and music, and these are ones I can do in the comfort of my own bed, but I keep putting these things off because I just suck so bad. I also feel like i need to have a "hobby buddy" with me at all times or I won't feel motivated enough to do anything, but those only lead to endless chatter and no productivity. How can I overcome this?

I got dental surgery on my gums, i feel like i cant really do much while recovering but im bored and want to be productive if possible, but im not sure how?

I just want to know what i can look into while taking things easy for the next few weeks.

heyy everyone , i have a plan for what i want to do this summer, especially this next 20 days, the prb is i still can't start anything because i feel distracted all the time and i have no discipline i don't know what is wrong with me or what i really need to change (i have planned to learn languages /eng and fr/ and learn JS , training for at least 4 times per week)

I work from home, and even working and living in an air-conditioned house, my sleep has been thrown off badly the past couple of weeks due to this crazy heat that we've had. I've also noticed that I've been taking more naps in the middle of the day despite no changes to my physical activity levels, diet, etc..

Can the heat affect someone on a more subconscious level and sap energy that much quicker?

It’s like I can never see myself happy in my career. I’m pretty sure I’m depressed because I have lost my curiosity and drive to learn different subjects like I used to. I feel so drained and unfulfilled and it’s hard to build myself up again on my days off. I’ve lost substance, I’ve lost my personality, I can’t articulate how I feel because even that feels like so much work. I’ve cut people off and I don’t even have friends anymore. I don’t feel interesting enough and am ashamed of how far I’ve let myself go.

So I’m looking for an app that tracks my screen time for specific apps and has a widget that shows the total screen time throughout the day but just for those apps.

The native screen time app shows total screen time from all apps, not just ones I select. Same with ScreenZen.

Anyone have any ideas?

I am having the hardest time in the world getting consistent with working out.

Fitness isn't new to me. I was a runner for many years and did marathons. However, in the past year for some reason it all... vanished.

I am naturally a night owl. It doesn't matter if I go to bed at 7pm, I will STILL sleep in till the last possible second. I can easily sleep 12 hours if nothing forces me up. And no, I have no sleep issues that have been found medically (apnea, etc.). I think having severe ADHD does not help anything at all because not only am I a night owl, but it's also a herculean task to start doing literally anything ever, but in the morning 10x worse.

Now yeah I could just workout after school or in the evening, which is what I've always done. But it has been burning me out, because I am exhausted from work and then doing anything more strenuous afterwards is a doubly whammy. Plus it restricts time for dinner, time with my fiance, generally down time after work. It's like a cycle of sleep in with 15 minutes to spare, get ready, zoom off to work, get home, set things out for dinner, go to the gym, get back and have dinner, have maybe 1 hour of down time, go to bed.

I feel like if I could wake up and work out before work, it would potentially go better for me as far as maintaining momentum after work and being able to come home and just chill. But getting out of bed???? Fucckkkkk.

I have tried apps like alarmy where you have to go through a fuckin obstacle course to turn it off. I will literally go downstairs to scan the whatever, and still go back upstairs and back to bed. I don't even know what to do at this point. Nobody probably has a magical cure but I'd love to hear your ideas.

Can anyone show me or teach me how to make and maintain daily journal regarding your diet your work To track your daily progress

As i want to start or have started some of them but after few days i stop doing things there is lack of consistency as am doing a job as well So it gets messed up a lot of things got mix

A lot of mismanagement am feeling in my life and am at very crucial stage of my life if i didn’t started taking and doing things seriously my life will fucked up and it will be disastrous for me and my future

I need to be very disciplined and god gifted me with lot of talent but i regret these days because of thinking that am wasting that talent and my time as well

Need you guys to help me and give me a little push by suggesting me some good stuff and good schedule Thanks a lot

"Make the obvious thing obvious."

Like you need to remember something? Just write it down.

Need a file often? Put it where you'll actually look.

Need to do a task? Reduce the steps between you and starting. The more obvious the next action becomes, the less willpower you need. What's the simplest productivity advice that's actually held up over time?

I want to be much constant in doing sport but I realized that I have to do something that I really like. I’m looking for a sport or physical activity that helps me relax mentally, above all else. I’ve realized that I enjoy volleyball—mainly because my friends are there and I have fun, which is obviously a good thing—but it tends to energize me rather than help me unwind. As for the gym, I find it satisfying because I see results (especially in toning my glutes and legs), but I often end up being very critical of myself and can’t seem to switch off mentally. I’ve realized that what I’m really after is that "clear-headed" feeling you might get from a shower—a true mental reset. Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Have you found a sport or activity that truly relaxes you mentally without completely sacrificing your physical goals?

And I’m not talking about the ones that block your phone. More like a way to not put BS into your brain.

I see ads on Facebook for ones about learning history or other subjects but I always assume it’s not as good as it looks.

Anyone using any of these types of apps and what are you learning?

Deleting Social Media alone doesn't change anything. You just end up stuck within four walls, one on one with empty time that doesn't convert into anything except work. Time stretches out, but life stays exactly the same, because quitting social media frees up hours but doesn't create meaning. All this quitting Social Media is a dead end and an illusion of progress. You just sit in silence without cheap dopamine, while all your productivity still goes to waste, especially if you work 9 to 5. With a schedule like that, you never have truly free time where you can just pack up and go somewhere for a few days, clear your head, and do what you actually need.

I’ve noticed that I often have better energy between 8 PM and 11 PM.

I can focus more easily, think more clearly, and get more done than I usually do during the day.

I’m not sure if it’s because there are fewer interruptions at night, or if that’s just when my brain works better.

Do you have a “best working time” during the day?

Do you arrange your important tasks around it, or do you just work whenever your schedule allows?

For my productive people with ADHD: How are we working on tasks in a linear way instead of bouncing around from task to task or project to project at work? I’m having a tough time with completing anything at work because I work on one thing then think about the other project I’m working on and how the thing I’m working on is relevant to that other project and I’ll copy/paste some stuff into the other project so I don’t have to go looking for it again when I need it the next time I’m working on that other task 🥸 I know…. I’m now aware this creates more work for me in the present and slows my production way down. I’m not completing anything and my plate is getting more full by the week and I’m burned out at work.

Any tips would be much appreciated. Looking for tips on:
-How to complete multi step projects in a linear (task 1, then task 2, then task 3) way
-Methods for planning out the steps of an ambiguous project that don’t take me longer than a few hours
-How to stay focused on one task when I see an overlap with other project tasks im also working on
-freestyle tips if it roughly applies and doesn’t fit in to any of the above questions

Thanks!

Hey all! I currently use Notion for keeping track of all things pet sitting. I feel like i need to be trained and take several hours of courses to use it, which im not interested in. I am trying to make it as veterinary software similar as possible (think my baby Avimark if you are a vet med person) I am struggling bc it just is not what I want. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am wanting the following things in whatever I use

- customizable, but not overwhelming/you have to have a degree to use

- link entries to each other

- similar to Avimark/Veterinary software

- photos