For the last few days I've been home on my own for the first time for a couple days. Normally I'm used to having someone (mostly my parents) tell me what to do, but since I don't really have that right now I'm basically unable to do anything. I have a checklist of things I need to get done, but haven't even managed to really look at that for the last three or so days. I'm either just sitting or lying around doing nothing or distracting myself using anything interesting like my computer or reading books. Does anyone have ideas what I could do to better focus on the important tasks I have? It kind of feels like a blockade of some sorts that prevents me from doing the tasks I don't want to do but are important.

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theres an app called Due which is really helpful because its loud and it keeps bugging you untik you check the item done and it lets you type the deadline/due date in natural language so its super easy to input tasks and har them dated properly very easily

Also, it might be helpful for you to limit yourself to 1 big outcome a day and limit/reserve your energy for that so you dint get overwhelmed.

Once you pound back enough Wins and things improve in your environment, it will be easier ro start doubling up and doing a little more per day till you get where you want to go and for your conditions to improve.

Take it slow but determinedly and keep dreaming up what or the ways you you need things to be improved and work on gradually bridging that gap. Listen to a soecific enjoyable book or podcast just for the times you're working on what you want to get done or improve at so you have a cue to your being that triggers your action mode

Theres another app LongDay or you can do Dr. David Burns 24 hour schedule exercise where you plan your day in the morning and later annotate what got done. The impirtant osrt of this scheduling is it gets you to gather what you want to get done and schedule it (inherently estimating the duration of time required + naturally seperating things with breaks here and there to create a realistic and practical roadmap for reaching your objectives and actually having objectives you' ve purposefully designated

(I like the Daily Activity Schedule with 30 minute or even 15 min blocks but its more important to get going get going. Start hourly and master that then you can expand that but hourly is ideal at the start for getting the process mastered and having a more manageable agenda to fit around all your existing obligations.

  1. Write out all the outcomes (not what needs to be done, its what you want done ultimately, leave the how for later
  2. Put all the usual milestones of your day (meal times, sleep window, work, school, ect) first to give you a scaffold or structure to make sure priority things that are most necessary are allocated enough time and you dont ignore important needs/limits
  3. Block out your outcome(s) with the most laborious (emrequiring the most effort or stamina) being scheduled earliest possible so you have the most energy to deal with them
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