• Da Cap’n@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Try to find a way to incorporate one of your hyperfixates into how you make money. It makes work suck a little less.

    • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.net
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      12 days ago

      No, don’t. Good idea at first glance, but horrible on the second, at least from my experience.

      While work will be way more pleasant, it might be too pleasant, and you’ll spend more energy and focus than you might realise.
      Your boss will notice that too, and give you a heck lot of more work to do than your colleagues, for the same wage.
      You’ll work and work and work, and then you wake up with a burnout.
      No one, except you, will notice that.

      And then you can’t give 200% anymore, but only 100% from now on.

      In your bosses eyes, you have gotten just lazy and not interested anymore, just because they’re used to you overstraining yourself.

      And last but not least, they’ll dump you into the trash because they can’t extract even more resources out from you, and no one will care. You are just a human resource, that’s why the department in companies is called that way.

      Don’t be stupid. Don’t be me!

  • Australis13@fedia.io
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    10 days ago

    A slew of organisational tools to help me keep track of things and prevent overwhelm:

    • ClickUp is really good for big projects. I can break them down into smaller pieces, set dependencies and priorities, etc. so that only the next relevant steps are shown and I don’t get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of work involved in a large project.
    • Trello I find really handy for day-to-day stuff. I have a weekly template card with a checklist for each day and the regular activities on it. This reduces the amount of bandwidth I need to plan my day or week, as I already have a rough structure in place to build upon.
    • Google Calendar (although really any calendar app should do). Use repeating events and take advantage of the email reminder options. If it’s something important that I need to prepare for, I can set a reminder email a day or two (or even a week) in advance so that it doesn’t sneak up on me.

    Beyond that, I find it very important to keep my space organised, neat and tidy. Too much visual clutter is overwhelming. Making sure everything has its own place and is readily accessible takes a lot of hassle out of anything I have to do, whether it be day-to-day stuff or one-off tasks.

    • Rogue Satellite@infosec.pubEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I’ve tried numerous times to use tools like these, and found having to set up everything for every day quite tedious. I’m not sure if that was the actual reason but I could never keep up with scheduling, or creating new routines that I set out for myself.

      I like the idea of having recurring checklists for each day with regular activities on a Trello board to save time in making a plan. How specific do you get with the board and specific activities? Do you maybe have tips to stay consistent?

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I can sometimes do a sort of manual override and force my brain to behave a certain way. Doesn’t always work for very long, though, and it’s also worth noting I’m quite low (if there is such a thing as a low) on the spectrum.

    EDIT: Turns out this is masking. Please ignore me.