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Imake a list and number them and then go on random.org and have it choose an integer and then i do the the thing on the list that matches the number randomly chosen.
This way i’m not making a decision, the lord of chaos is.
This except for the dog walk. Don't make the dog wait!
My wife has a dog too. With the large fenced in yard, they are good to go. They can run faster than I ever will. It's more about the bonding part.
Ah, that sounds lovely. I didn't know if you had a yard at all so erred on the side of caution
Tried it, not a great success... The only result is making me not want whatever was chosen anymore.
My brain has this awful tendency of going "I could have done it a minute ago but now that someone else told me to I can't anymore"
If you flip a coin and don’t like the answer that just means you already decided but didn’t realize you had decided.
No it's really that the result feels like a decision imposed on me and my brain can't deal with that... It's the same if I start to do something I want, then someone calls to tell me to do it and now I can't do it anymore. Not sure if it's PDA or something else, but it's really annoying, especially in combination with AuDHD.
Was just about to suggest it might be PDA. I have a bit of that and it is rather annoying. Some techniques ive used go combat this:
Neither are perfect but they do help sometimes.
Nice suggestions, thanks!
Challenges usually get the opposite reaction than demands for me, I can't even count all the stuff I've done because of it. Maybe self (not-)imposed challenges would work? I'll need to give it a try. Though challenges also have their problems, like picking the most stupid or pointless ideas because I was advised not to do it. I think there's a correlation between how stupid and pointless an idea is and how quickly my brain latches onto in 😅
Also with the list. Just not the random thing. I pick a small thing off the list and knock out, that sense of accomplishment helps me knock other things off the list.
Python and other programming languages can do that too, if the person also wants everything offline, and/or can't focus while waiting for webpages to load.
Been using that myself and though not ideal since too many concurrent interests, it helps a bunch.
If the person doesn't know how to code, just ask some of those AI tools available around. If on Windows, the person could even ask for the AI to make a .bat script that only exits after pressing enter or the sort, to be as straight-forward as possible.
This is a good one! Thanks!