Personal, motivation. mh?
Folks with depression and/or ADHD: is it possible to, for lack of a better term, manually move something up your mental priority list? Like: I'd like cleaning and tidying to be near the top of mine, and right now it just isn't, because every time I notice that things aren't as clean as they should be, I'm already in the middle of something else, and I don't want to get distracted from that. How can I get myself to say "no, neatness and cleanliness comes first?" reliably?
Personal, motivation. mh?
Is it, frankly, just the same as developing any other habit - make myself do it repeatedly until the neural pathways change?
Personal, motivation. mh?
@noelle in the long term yes, although in the short term it probably helps to bundle it with a reward mechanism so that instead of “oh i need to clean” you get “oh i should clean and [nice thing you are used to getting which only comes with cleaning]”
it's faster i think to build an expectation on receiving [nice thing] and use that to power your cleaning; if you can make a habit out of [nice thing] you will start craving it which will equate to desiring to do the work to get it
(a good example of [nice thing] might be a podcast you only listen to while cleaning; if you like and want to continue listening to the podcast that will motivate you cleaning more often)
