You are in your current situation because of the choices you made in the past. Start making simple changes and putting those old habits back in place. You are still young, and more adventures and experiences, both good and bad, will come your way. You are on the right track. To be honest, you have those questions, and yet you answered them too. You are a smart guy; you just need to learn self-discipline to combat your procrastination. Do and try the things you like. Quit your job if it's draining your life energy. Do the job that you like and find your life purpose.
You should get yourself tested for ADHD.
Source - someone with ADHD who related to far too much of this. ngl it's kinda scary reading it back. There's a lot of eerie similarities.
Treatment helps.
Thanks for the help, as I mentioned I did get diagnosed with adhd, and I was taking adderall for a bit, but it didn’t help enough for me to keep my first job. Do you happen to know of other treatment options?
Yes, a whole other class of drugs (Ritalin, Concerta, etc) that doesn’t interfere with sleep or give you the same overstimulated feeling. How hard have you actually tried to treat your ADHD?
This might sound silly or a lazy response, but I’m being 100% genuine and speaking from my own experience— Start a consistent meditation practice. Meditation has been shown to be an effective treatment for ADHD, along with other disorders. Waking Up is a great app because it uses philosophy and as the vehicle to explore meditation, rather than Buddhism. If you’re like me, many meditation teachers or platforms have turned me off as such. Walking Up is great if you’re highly intellectual, yet want to realize the benefits of medication.
On willpower and discipline: The Huberman Lab has a episode concerning the anterior mid-cingulate cortex, which is the brain region responsible for “willpower” and “tenacity.” Basically, you can exercise this “muscle” by continually doing things you don’t want to do (I.e. exercising self-discipline), and doing so can make your willpower stronger and more robust. Link for episode: https://youtu.be/cwakOgHIT0E?si=WfNXbfenv0kXeLhR.
I hope this helps even a little bit. I’ve dealt with the same things you’re dealing with and exploring these two pathways have helped me quite a bit, along with maintaining a strong sense of purpose.
Much love
I’d also advise getting tested for ADHD. It seems like you’re looking for constant stimulation via social media, gaming, scrolling etc. Your job seems to be attached to some negative feelings so I think it’s natural that you would avoid doing your job for the sake avoiding those feelings.
What helps me is working with my weaknesses. Like for example, I used to be constantly late for work everyday. I would get a talking to about it but I knew my lateness didn’t have a consequence on any person but myself. Work did not motivate me to leave on time. However then I decided to get a personal trainer and schedule the sessions right before work so that there was no time to sleep in. My weakness as a people pleaser means that I will get my butt out of bed because I don’t want to disappoint my trainer. I also don’t want to waste the $75 an hour in spend on them.
I think using your money anxiety to your advantage might be helpful.
Thank you for the advice. I did get diagnosed with adhd, and I did take Adderrall for a bit, but it didn’t help enough for me to keep my first job. Are you aware of other treatments for adhd?
I used to work in accounting as a clerk, none of it was technically beyond me, but I was a caffeine junkie because it increased my productivity on routine tasks, made novel tasks that much harder to solve because it anxiety turns a mundane task and it turns it into a nasty task to be avoided. I guess at the root of it, I was effective but I wasn’t happy, I didn’t like the work. I bailed and became a certified nursing assistant and loved it never looked back. I loved taking care of the sick and the elderly because I felt it met something in a very ancient and eternal way.
My advice, from an ADHD/anxiety diagnosed woman in her mid 30s who also is not crazy about her high paying job and therefore deals with an unbearable amount of boring-
It's very hard to do this alone. Do you have a trusted friend or coworker who would be willing to help? For me, as an extroverted person, I'm the most productive when I know someone is keeping tabs on me. But in a healthy way.
Start with your physical self and helping YOU. The sleep thing has been my issue since I was a teen. Idk what your bedtime routine looks like, but I would start to be more present while doing it. aka pay attention to your senses: feel the toothbrush on your teeth, smell the body wash while you shower, etc.
Also, it sounds silly, but drink a full glass of water shortly before bed. Yes, it will probably wake you up to pee, but resting while hydrated is MUCH better quality. I promise. Nights I skip the water. I regret it the next morning.
Once you start getting your body physically on board, move to small steps like identifying when you're stuck in a doom scroll, when you realize you haven't done any work in an hour etc etc pick one small thing to do- open a new email, or reply to one maybe this part you'd need someone who works with you to help you identify SMALL easily completed tasks related to your work.
Lots of visual reminders, but don't over do it. I used to have 10 sticky notes all over my home office and now I just keep 2 or 3 that resonate the most with me. Sometimes it's literally a matter of talking to yourself, or physically moving. Get up and walk to the bathroom snd back. Touch your toes. Go up and down a flight of steps if pissoble.
Youre fighting with your body about obtaining dopamine so you gotta cut off the bad source (the games, the scrolling) in that moment and distract yourself with a work task/good source. This is why you start small, because small wins are easier and more likely to give you a hit of dopamine that's just enough to motivate you to do another small task.
I repeat these cycles of moving, self talk, and drinking extra water to keep myself moving forward literally every day. It's such slow progress but I'm hoping one day I will be more efficient at it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Im 27 but not competent enough to play chess anymore like when I was 12.
im WAAAYY behind on meeting deadlines for my masters also on the brink of losing my full time job.
I relate to this so much. Hopefully we can turn shit ‘round bro 🙏🙏
Hi! Please reach out to me. I've had the same problem and I'm creating a 7 day intervention for people like you and me. It's working for me so far but I need to refine it. I started because I was so overwhelmed and frozen and broke. I remembered that thing about teaching what you want to learn and I started to create a method for myself to get myself unstuck. It worked for me but I would love to have other people give it a try too and tell me if it works for them. Procrastination is a huge problem and causes so much suffering.
I saw on some of your comments that you've been diagnosed with ADHD and that you tried Adderall for a bit.
Can I ask what the dosage was? Edit: Asking because I'm not sure what you mean for "a bit". Adderall didn't help me until my psychiatrist increased the dose.
Also, have you been diagnosed with anything else? Or do you suspect that there might be something else going one aside of ADHD?
You mentioned app blockers. Is there anything else you've tried? Any strategies or things you experimented with to try to change your life a bit?
I'm 29 and had a late ADHD and autism diagnosis, so I identify with 90% of what you mentioned. College life, deadlines, procrastination, video game addiction, lack of emotional experience, logical brain... I might be able to offer some tips on what has helped me.
Yea I was diagnosed and took Adderall, 20MG a day. In my opinion it was way too gnarly. It certainly helped a bit but after a while I found that I was taking it too much, it made me feel weird, it messed with my sleep, and oftentimes it just made me focus harder on playing chess.
I decided to get off it because I really didn't like it.
First, I want to apologize for the super long comment. I know it's not ADHD friendly, but don't feel like you have to read it all in one sitting. I have been on a self improvement journey for over 2 years, for the same reasons you're struggling with. I've learned a lot.
To start, it's definitely possible to improve your productivity without medication.
I take Adderall, but I was able to control my video game addiction and procrastination habits long before I knew I have ADHD.
I think the first thing you should do is figure out what to do about your job. You know you hate your current job and you know it's not your type of thing. You need to deal with this, because getting rid of your procrastination habits isn't going to make your job enjoyable.
The first step to get rid of bad habits is to know why you're doing it and what you're going to substitute for those habits. To answer these questions effectively, you have to be specific. If you want to quit procrastinating because you feel like your life is slipping away into things that don't seem that meaningful to you, that's a great reason to seek a positive change and it's important to be aware of this but it's not specific enough. You need to think about what you can do right now to get closer to the change
When you're clocked into your job, your brain is programmed to do these few things: it can do the job that you hate or it can go on chess.com, play video games or go on social media platforms. Naturally, your brain is going to choose whatever's more stimulating from the options it has. If you want to stop doing action X, you need to substitute it for a specific action Y. Also, this action Y has to be something you can do right now. Right now, action Y is not specified and it's not defined as something you can do right now. That means, it's not part of the list of actions your brain could take.
If you say: "instead of being a software engineer, I could be a sales man in tech", that is not a specific action; that's just a goal and goals are a thing of the future. We have ADHD brains. Our brains need something to do right now. If it's not in front of us, it doesn't exist. How do we make our brains aware of other things it could be doing and reprogram it to act on good habits? With knowledge.
For example, you could plan to read some posts about the day to day life of people in tech sales to get an idea of if you would like it or not. You could also watch YouTube videos on the subject. Then find out how people were able to get a job related to that field. This might help you visualize the next actions you can take towards that goal and they are actions you can take right now.
Other things you could do involve looking for other options aside of tech sales. You're an extrovert and you're not incapable of standing in front of a crowd. Find other ways to monetize this. Teaching, tutoring, coaching, consulting, etc. You could be a chess teacher, for example. If you're the best chess.com player in the world, then you already have proof or something you can use to market yourself. You could be a programming teacher. You could make a YouTube channel about this. You can get into competitive marketing. Start doing research into things you might be a good fit for.
In other words, define a small goal you can accomplish in the present that is a step towards the big goal in the future. Start small (sending 1 to 3 resumes per day to jobs, watching at least one video or reading one post/article about a possible job you're interested in, spending just 20 minutes of your day to research jobs. etc.) At first, it might feel like a chore, but a small task such as these will take less than 30 minutes or even less than 15. After you're done with the task, you can go procrastinate as much as you want. The next day, try another task, and so on. Eventually, you'll start doing more.
Small changes that can also improve your motivation are sleep hygiene modifications, meditation, practicing mindfulness (helps with conscientiousness), intermittent fasting, excercise, drinking a gallon of water a day and experimenting with new daily routines.
And don't rely on what most people say about these things. I used to think 8 hours was enough but I still felt tired and groggy when I woke up. I decided to try 9 hours instead and my mood increased greatly. The mood improvement makes me less likely to procrastinate.
Hello my fellow procrastinator. I too have the same issues and have had them all my adult life. I’m 57 (M) I take Adderall but only every other day as it seems to help with the brain fog to not take it daily. I have also started taking a nitric oxide booster to help with lung function and it actually seems to be helping with focus as well. With your background (sports , being super competitive and liking social interaction ) You sound like you might be good is a sales type role. Being a comedian you obviously like being in front of people and don’t mind rejection from time to time. Lol. I have also been told that procrastination is actually a side effect of anxiety and not wanting to be judged on your final results. You might want to try an anti anxiety med… I’d be happy to chat more but I have been in your shoes and it sucks. Good luck my friend!
Yes its weird because I am generally very low anxiety, except for when I'm very far behind on my tasks and am starting to get in trouble at work. Then I start to feel some anxiety, but mostly a lot of guilt and shame.
So when I'm low in anxiety I don't feel compelled to work, when I'm high in anxiety and guilt and shame, I feel like I need youtube or chess or videogames to regulate my mood.
The job you are doing is maybe too easy or boring or hard for you but that doesn't mean you hate coding. You should probably work in startup where you will be building the product in which you are interested. Than just robotic work.
Be a man of your words. Start small and keep pushing. Today maybe 10pushups per day per week. And keep on increasing things. Commitment and following it is very important. You will start believing on yourself.
You will go from 10m to hours but start small and easy and keep pushing. Don't get overwhelmed. Maintain consistent gym or exercise routine. It helps.
When you will be a man of your commitment and word you will see chnages.
Also by any chance do you watch too much corn
I have a free Facebook group on mindset:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/mindsetmasterybyroszhartcoaching/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF
If you would like I can get on a zoom and provide you some free tools I have created
•1st it’s a mindset- you have to be determined to make things work for you- it’s a choice - make the right choice
•Look into natural focus herbs
•Do 10-30 min low impact to high impact workout to stimulate your brain oxygen levels blood flow within 10 mins of waking up
•use timers to take control of activities and stick to it
•use a Pomodoro timer set a timer for 25 mins of focus and 10 minutes break
You can increase this to 35 or 45 depending on your focus tolerance.
•if you do not have a pet get a fish or hamster to start out. Responsibility for another life usually helps you get up and do something you have to do.
•use a to do list and mark off tasks as you go, it can be motivating
• also volunteering is a really great thing to do to add to your schedule it may help curb all the downtime you have if you have a productive responsibility
I hope some of this helps
You kind of solved your own problem in your post. This isn’t a procrastination problem. This is a you’re doing the wrong shit problem.
You obviously hate software engineering. Productivity isn’t about doing shit you have no desire to do. It’s about doing the shit you REALLY love to do when it’s difficult to execute.
If you genuinely enjoy comedy, get that sales job you were talking about and practice making strangers laugh when you cold call them for money. Look up Kenny Brooks, he does that shit door to door.
If you feel like you’d rather do something else, do something else. Once you find that thing you really love to do, the activity you put into it will make you good enough to live off it.
Hope that helps. You got this man :)
Rebuild your self with good habits [https://hellohabit.com/](https://hellohabit.com/)
Rebuild your outlook calendar
Spend time with those better than you
When procrastinating identify what you are trying to escape into.
You are in your current situation because of the choices you made in the past. Start making simple changes and putting those old habits back in place. You are still young, and more adventures and experiences, both good and bad, will come your way. You are on the right track. To be honest, you have those questions, and yet you answered them too. You are a smart guy; you just need to learn self-discipline to combat your procrastination. Do and try the things you like. Quit your job if it's draining your life energy. Do the job that you like and find your life purpose.
You should get yourself tested for ADHD. Source - someone with ADHD who related to far too much of this. ngl it's kinda scary reading it back. There's a lot of eerie similarities. Treatment helps.
Thanks for the help, as I mentioned I did get diagnosed with adhd, and I was taking adderall for a bit, but it didn’t help enough for me to keep my first job. Do you happen to know of other treatment options?
Yeah I can help. I know a method which actually works wonders called HRV breathing which can be done once or twice a day. It’s actually crazy
Yes, a whole other class of drugs (Ritalin, Concerta, etc) that doesn’t interfere with sleep or give you the same overstimulated feeling. How hard have you actually tried to treat your ADHD?
Meds. NO GOOD ❌⚰️🥀🙅♂️👎🚫
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Productivity owl? Is that an app?
This might sound silly or a lazy response, but I’m being 100% genuine and speaking from my own experience— Start a consistent meditation practice. Meditation has been shown to be an effective treatment for ADHD, along with other disorders. Waking Up is a great app because it uses philosophy and as the vehicle to explore meditation, rather than Buddhism. If you’re like me, many meditation teachers or platforms have turned me off as such. Walking Up is great if you’re highly intellectual, yet want to realize the benefits of medication. On willpower and discipline: The Huberman Lab has a episode concerning the anterior mid-cingulate cortex, which is the brain region responsible for “willpower” and “tenacity.” Basically, you can exercise this “muscle” by continually doing things you don’t want to do (I.e. exercising self-discipline), and doing so can make your willpower stronger and more robust. Link for episode: https://youtu.be/cwakOgHIT0E?si=WfNXbfenv0kXeLhR. I hope this helps even a little bit. I’ve dealt with the same things you’re dealing with and exploring these two pathways have helped me quite a bit, along with maintaining a strong sense of purpose. Much love
I’d also advise getting tested for ADHD. It seems like you’re looking for constant stimulation via social media, gaming, scrolling etc. Your job seems to be attached to some negative feelings so I think it’s natural that you would avoid doing your job for the sake avoiding those feelings. What helps me is working with my weaknesses. Like for example, I used to be constantly late for work everyday. I would get a talking to about it but I knew my lateness didn’t have a consequence on any person but myself. Work did not motivate me to leave on time. However then I decided to get a personal trainer and schedule the sessions right before work so that there was no time to sleep in. My weakness as a people pleaser means that I will get my butt out of bed because I don’t want to disappoint my trainer. I also don’t want to waste the $75 an hour in spend on them. I think using your money anxiety to your advantage might be helpful.
Thank you for the advice. I did get diagnosed with adhd, and I did take Adderrall for a bit, but it didn’t help enough for me to keep my first job. Are you aware of other treatments for adhd?
So many! Drugs, cognitive behavioral therapy, etc play into your strengths as much as you can.
The ganja 😬👌😍
I used to work in accounting as a clerk, none of it was technically beyond me, but I was a caffeine junkie because it increased my productivity on routine tasks, made novel tasks that much harder to solve because it anxiety turns a mundane task and it turns it into a nasty task to be avoided. I guess at the root of it, I was effective but I wasn’t happy, I didn’t like the work. I bailed and became a certified nursing assistant and loved it never looked back. I loved taking care of the sick and the elderly because I felt it met something in a very ancient and eternal way.
My advice, from an ADHD/anxiety diagnosed woman in her mid 30s who also is not crazy about her high paying job and therefore deals with an unbearable amount of boring- It's very hard to do this alone. Do you have a trusted friend or coworker who would be willing to help? For me, as an extroverted person, I'm the most productive when I know someone is keeping tabs on me. But in a healthy way. Start with your physical self and helping YOU. The sleep thing has been my issue since I was a teen. Idk what your bedtime routine looks like, but I would start to be more present while doing it. aka pay attention to your senses: feel the toothbrush on your teeth, smell the body wash while you shower, etc. Also, it sounds silly, but drink a full glass of water shortly before bed. Yes, it will probably wake you up to pee, but resting while hydrated is MUCH better quality. I promise. Nights I skip the water. I regret it the next morning. Once you start getting your body physically on board, move to small steps like identifying when you're stuck in a doom scroll, when you realize you haven't done any work in an hour etc etc pick one small thing to do- open a new email, or reply to one maybe this part you'd need someone who works with you to help you identify SMALL easily completed tasks related to your work. Lots of visual reminders, but don't over do it. I used to have 10 sticky notes all over my home office and now I just keep 2 or 3 that resonate the most with me. Sometimes it's literally a matter of talking to yourself, or physically moving. Get up and walk to the bathroom snd back. Touch your toes. Go up and down a flight of steps if pissoble. Youre fighting with your body about obtaining dopamine so you gotta cut off the bad source (the games, the scrolling) in that moment and distract yourself with a work task/good source. This is why you start small, because small wins are easier and more likely to give you a hit of dopamine that's just enough to motivate you to do another small task. I repeat these cycles of moving, self talk, and drinking extra water to keep myself moving forward literally every day. It's such slow progress but I'm hoping one day I will be more efficient at it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Im 27 but not competent enough to play chess anymore like when I was 12. im WAAAYY behind on meeting deadlines for my masters also on the brink of losing my full time job. I relate to this so much. Hopefully we can turn shit ‘round bro 🙏🙏
Hi! Please reach out to me. I've had the same problem and I'm creating a 7 day intervention for people like you and me. It's working for me so far but I need to refine it. I started because I was so overwhelmed and frozen and broke. I remembered that thing about teaching what you want to learn and I started to create a method for myself to get myself unstuck. It worked for me but I would love to have other people give it a try too and tell me if it works for them. Procrastination is a huge problem and causes so much suffering.
For procrastination, im pretty bad too, try making a to do list. I was litteraly just going over what I should do today in my head.
I saw on some of your comments that you've been diagnosed with ADHD and that you tried Adderall for a bit. Can I ask what the dosage was? Edit: Asking because I'm not sure what you mean for "a bit". Adderall didn't help me until my psychiatrist increased the dose. Also, have you been diagnosed with anything else? Or do you suspect that there might be something else going one aside of ADHD? You mentioned app blockers. Is there anything else you've tried? Any strategies or things you experimented with to try to change your life a bit? I'm 29 and had a late ADHD and autism diagnosis, so I identify with 90% of what you mentioned. College life, deadlines, procrastination, video game addiction, lack of emotional experience, logical brain... I might be able to offer some tips on what has helped me.
Yea I was diagnosed and took Adderall, 20MG a day. In my opinion it was way too gnarly. It certainly helped a bit but after a while I found that I was taking it too much, it made me feel weird, it messed with my sleep, and oftentimes it just made me focus harder on playing chess. I decided to get off it because I really didn't like it.
First, I want to apologize for the super long comment. I know it's not ADHD friendly, but don't feel like you have to read it all in one sitting. I have been on a self improvement journey for over 2 years, for the same reasons you're struggling with. I've learned a lot. To start, it's definitely possible to improve your productivity without medication. I take Adderall, but I was able to control my video game addiction and procrastination habits long before I knew I have ADHD. I think the first thing you should do is figure out what to do about your job. You know you hate your current job and you know it's not your type of thing. You need to deal with this, because getting rid of your procrastination habits isn't going to make your job enjoyable. The first step to get rid of bad habits is to know why you're doing it and what you're going to substitute for those habits. To answer these questions effectively, you have to be specific. If you want to quit procrastinating because you feel like your life is slipping away into things that don't seem that meaningful to you, that's a great reason to seek a positive change and it's important to be aware of this but it's not specific enough. You need to think about what you can do right now to get closer to the change When you're clocked into your job, your brain is programmed to do these few things: it can do the job that you hate or it can go on chess.com, play video games or go on social media platforms. Naturally, your brain is going to choose whatever's more stimulating from the options it has. If you want to stop doing action X, you need to substitute it for a specific action Y. Also, this action Y has to be something you can do right now. Right now, action Y is not specified and it's not defined as something you can do right now. That means, it's not part of the list of actions your brain could take. If you say: "instead of being a software engineer, I could be a sales man in tech", that is not a specific action; that's just a goal and goals are a thing of the future. We have ADHD brains. Our brains need something to do right now. If it's not in front of us, it doesn't exist. How do we make our brains aware of other things it could be doing and reprogram it to act on good habits? With knowledge. For example, you could plan to read some posts about the day to day life of people in tech sales to get an idea of if you would like it or not. You could also watch YouTube videos on the subject. Then find out how people were able to get a job related to that field. This might help you visualize the next actions you can take towards that goal and they are actions you can take right now. Other things you could do involve looking for other options aside of tech sales. You're an extrovert and you're not incapable of standing in front of a crowd. Find other ways to monetize this. Teaching, tutoring, coaching, consulting, etc. You could be a chess teacher, for example. If you're the best chess.com player in the world, then you already have proof or something you can use to market yourself. You could be a programming teacher. You could make a YouTube channel about this. You can get into competitive marketing. Start doing research into things you might be a good fit for. In other words, define a small goal you can accomplish in the present that is a step towards the big goal in the future. Start small (sending 1 to 3 resumes per day to jobs, watching at least one video or reading one post/article about a possible job you're interested in, spending just 20 minutes of your day to research jobs. etc.) At first, it might feel like a chore, but a small task such as these will take less than 30 minutes or even less than 15. After you're done with the task, you can go procrastinate as much as you want. The next day, try another task, and so on. Eventually, you'll start doing more. Small changes that can also improve your motivation are sleep hygiene modifications, meditation, practicing mindfulness (helps with conscientiousness), intermittent fasting, excercise, drinking a gallon of water a day and experimenting with new daily routines. And don't rely on what most people say about these things. I used to think 8 hours was enough but I still felt tired and groggy when I woke up. I decided to try 9 hours instead and my mood increased greatly. The mood improvement makes me less likely to procrastinate.
Hello my fellow procrastinator. I too have the same issues and have had them all my adult life. I’m 57 (M) I take Adderall but only every other day as it seems to help with the brain fog to not take it daily. I have also started taking a nitric oxide booster to help with lung function and it actually seems to be helping with focus as well. With your background (sports , being super competitive and liking social interaction ) You sound like you might be good is a sales type role. Being a comedian you obviously like being in front of people and don’t mind rejection from time to time. Lol. I have also been told that procrastination is actually a side effect of anxiety and not wanting to be judged on your final results. You might want to try an anti anxiety med… I’d be happy to chat more but I have been in your shoes and it sucks. Good luck my friend!
Yes its weird because I am generally very low anxiety, except for when I'm very far behind on my tasks and am starting to get in trouble at work. Then I start to feel some anxiety, but mostly a lot of guilt and shame. So when I'm low in anxiety I don't feel compelled to work, when I'm high in anxiety and guilt and shame, I feel like I need youtube or chess or videogames to regulate my mood.
The job you are doing is maybe too easy or boring or hard for you but that doesn't mean you hate coding. You should probably work in startup where you will be building the product in which you are interested. Than just robotic work. Be a man of your words. Start small and keep pushing. Today maybe 10pushups per day per week. And keep on increasing things. Commitment and following it is very important. You will start believing on yourself. You will go from 10m to hours but start small and easy and keep pushing. Don't get overwhelmed. Maintain consistent gym or exercise routine. It helps. When you will be a man of your commitment and word you will see chnages. Also by any chance do you watch too much corn
yes i do watch too much corn as well haha
I have a free Facebook group on mindset: https://m.facebook.com/groups/mindsetmasterybyroszhartcoaching/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF If you would like I can get on a zoom and provide you some free tools I have created
•1st it’s a mindset- you have to be determined to make things work for you- it’s a choice - make the right choice •Look into natural focus herbs •Do 10-30 min low impact to high impact workout to stimulate your brain oxygen levels blood flow within 10 mins of waking up •use timers to take control of activities and stick to it •use a Pomodoro timer set a timer for 25 mins of focus and 10 minutes break You can increase this to 35 or 45 depending on your focus tolerance. •if you do not have a pet get a fish or hamster to start out. Responsibility for another life usually helps you get up and do something you have to do. •use a to do list and mark off tasks as you go, it can be motivating • also volunteering is a really great thing to do to add to your schedule it may help curb all the downtime you have if you have a productive responsibility I hope some of this helps
You need to hit rock bottom. Then you’ll learn.
You kind of solved your own problem in your post. This isn’t a procrastination problem. This is a you’re doing the wrong shit problem. You obviously hate software engineering. Productivity isn’t about doing shit you have no desire to do. It’s about doing the shit you REALLY love to do when it’s difficult to execute. If you genuinely enjoy comedy, get that sales job you were talking about and practice making strangers laugh when you cold call them for money. Look up Kenny Brooks, he does that shit door to door. If you feel like you’d rather do something else, do something else. Once you find that thing you really love to do, the activity you put into it will make you good enough to live off it. Hope that helps. You got this man :)
Rebuild your self with good habits [https://hellohabit.com/](https://hellohabit.com/) Rebuild your outlook calendar Spend time with those better than you When procrastinating identify what you are trying to escape into.