easy

i make it a tomorrow issue
problems weren't

>>945583550
I used to have a huge procrastination problem. Then I got a new boss who regularly discussed what he expects of me instead of leaving me with no guidance and expecting me to determine his expectations out of the blue like my former boss did. I'm very productive now and receive regular praise from the new boss.

>>945584626
Any tips on getting my mojo back and smashing it at work again, or at least taking the first steps?

>>945586516
Before I got the new boss, I would try to cope by telling my boss I work better in a group than I do solo, which is true but not exclusively true. That boss said ok, but didn't do anything to encourage a collaborative environment. I managed to convince some coworkers to play along and we got shit done as a team. The new boss helped prove that I can get shit done solo as long as he clearly spells out what the the goals and objectives of the team are. See if you can approach work one of those ways.

>>945588471
Not exactly what I was looking for, but thanks bro. I got to do shit alone.

>>945583550
>I don't even get anything done for a week later
what do you do instead? I find it helps to make it so the only things I have to do are be productive and stare at the wall.

>>945586516
adderall

>>945584626
Lmfao

>>945588965
TikTok 4chan etc

>>945583550
I don't procrastinate, I have ADHD but the meds help so much that I procrastinate less than a person without ADHD

>>945588695
Sorry, the question was how I deal with procrastination. I do wish you luck and hope you can figre it out, anon.

>>945583550
zoom the fuck out and rate that exact thought from 1 to 10

let's inspect it
>With work I've fallen behind big time, and it's overwhelming. Just taking the first steps and getting some stuff done leaves me exhausted to the point I don't even get anything done for a week later, and then the cycle continues. I don't know how I ever was able to do 8 hours a day of productive work before.

clearly a sub 3 thought

now, u could just choose to think better toughts but it's all up to you if you want to enjoy that thought with sub 3 rating, doesn't seem that enjoyable to me

see what i did there?
it's your fucking choice

>>945589150
yeah man, me too, you just gotta put the phone down and resist the urge to open a browser. It really is that simple, tiktok especially has been studied and shown to demolish your brain and ability to focus with constant dopamine stimulation.

>>945583550
So the whole idea of an "8 hour work day" is corpo nonsense for peasants. No, that doesn't mean work is bad or that the majority of us don't have to step into the roll of corpo peasant. The fact remains though that the "8 hour work day" was a compromise because the corpos want to work you like a machine slave and not compensate you for any of it and workers want to get paid for simply breathing, and the unhappy union between the two settled on the 8 hours of work.

I promise you, your tribal ancestors 100,000 years ago did not think in "8 hour work days." Nobody is built for it, but they can be propagandized, caffeinated, and drugged into it until it destroys them.

That's why you're overwhelmed.

That said, all that lovely rhetoric I just gave you doesn't get the bills paid nor does it get you to do what you need to do. So there are many things we need to get squared away so that you can start conquering procrastination:

1. You need a solid 8 hours of sleep per day. This isn't negotiable. If you don't sleep good? Your brain don't function good. Period.

2. You need to get direct sunlight on your naked skin, preferably everyday. The more exposed you are to the sun while remaining legal the better. The precise amount of time that you need to be in that direct sunlight depends on where you are in relation to the equator as well as your complexion. Further from the equator? Longer. Dark complexion? Longer. Closer to the equator? Shorter. Light complexion? Shorter.
When I say "direct" I mean direct. Through a window filters the light, not going to cut it. Unfiltered, direct, sunlight on your skin, and avoid foods with furoucoumarins in them while you do this, they'll cause a margarita burn and sabotage your sunbathing.

(cont.)

>>945583550
3. You need to get more fish and seafood in your diet. Fatty fish especially like sardines. They're filled with the omega-3s that your brain and nervous system are in desperate need of. A well nourished brain means better able to stave off distractions.

4. The artificial blue lights from your tech devices burn out the dopamine receptors in your eyes. All you need to know is that if you're going to use tech for an extended period of time? Get some blue-blockers on. Else you're going to be that much more prone to being distracted.

Let's talk psychological techniques:

5. OODA cycles -- Observe, Orient, Decision, Act. You want to practice this all the time. The second you come to your senses from a distraction or after an OODA loop, you go right back into an OODA loop. Take a moment to observe your surroundings, what you're doing, what other people are doing. Orient yourself by getting your bearings from your immediate observations. Make a decision about what you're going to do in this situation. Then act on that decision.

(cont.)

>>945583550
6. Change your primary focus from the task your doing, assuming it's safe to do so (heavy machinery needs full attention, as an example of when not to shift focus), and put that primary focus toward the long-term goal you want to achieve. Allow yourself to be immersed in the experience of what it would be like if you had it right this moment. How does it feel? How does it taste? How does it live inside you, around you, and through you? Let yourself feel these viscerally, deeply. I mean, shit, anon, if you can't get yourself to care about this long-term goal, then is it any wonder why you procrastinate?

7. Change your environment. Either physically move and do your work away from what's distracting you or move the distractions physically away from you so that you can do your work in peace. If what you're working on has features that can be distracting like on a phone? Turn off the internet. Help yourself by removing the temptations from your immediate area.

8. Give yourself small rewards for the behaviors you want to start, continue, and strengthen. Yes, a small reward for just sitting down and attempting to get started is fine. If that's where you're at, then that's a fine place to start. Set some milestones that have a medium reward attached to them. Have stepping stones between the milestones and from where you're currently standing to your first milestone and sprinkle some small rewards you give yourself as you reach a stepping stone or a few stepping stones depending on the nature of the project. The point is the rewards should come frequently enough so that you feel the natural and intrinsic worth of what it is you're doing. That also means that these rewards have to be worth it to you.

(cont.)

>>945583550
9. There is the tried and true pomodoro technique. Just set a timer and steel yourself to work until the timer goes off. If that looks like 20 minutes of hard focus and an immediate 10 minute break afterward? That's fine. If that looks like 10 minutes of hard focus and an immediate 5 minute break afterward? That's fine. If we're literally just getting started? Then something as lopsided as 10 minutes of work and 30 minutes of break will do just to set the habit up for a couple weeks. It's so much more important for you set up and reinforce the habits you want to keep than it is to perform the habits perfectly.

10. Just like you're attempting to schedule work... be sure to take just a second to schedule the cut-off time where you're officially done for the day and that you ain't going to do jack or shit in regards to work until tomorrow. Have that line in the sand. If you've got an employer they'll give you that line in the sand for you. For your own personal long-term projects? Maybe after 3 to 4 hours for the day, that's it. Make sure that's it. Constantly giving shit 110% causes burnout and means you're not reaching the goal. So pace yourself accordingly.

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>>945589869
> unfiltered, direct, sunlight
just don't forget sunscreen
skin cancer ain't a joke

>>945589899
Nope, you've been semi-propagandized and done semi-dirty. It's kind of a long explanation that a "TL;DR" doesn't do justice, so consider what I just said the TL;DR.

1. So that this idea that humans are damaged by the sun is largely fueled by the fact humans experience sun burns. Humans aren't supposed to burn in the sun under normal sun exposure conditions. I touched on it when I mentioned "furoucoumarins," but as it turns out there are spoilers in the standard western diet that causes the sunlight sensitivity. Like take for example limes: normally a person who eats lime in their food somewhere is just going to experience a little bit of a propensity to burn across their entire body, assuming they were eating a fuck load of lime. Meanwhile someone handling the limes with their hands and getting their hands all covered in the oil? That phytophotodermatitis is going to be harsh and concentrated upon where the limes touched.

You don't want to get sun burnt, true, but if you're eating clean? Fuck man there are some people who just don't burn unless they're dealing with maybe albedo or water glare where people are getting a double-dose. Everyone else eating dirty? Well nobody said you had to be out in the sun for an hour straight. Getting a little sun singed trying to find a sweet spot isn't going to give someone cancer.

(cont.)

>>945589899
2. Now of the skin cancers you have basal cell which is the most common of skin cancer cases. They're rarely fatal. They're basically a joke. Even if you're that concerned they stay localized and are easy enough to have cut out. The next one on the list is squamous cell and those can be a little more risky as they can invade other tissues, albeit rarely. The real killer that everyone is afraid of is melanoma, and that's the least common and most aggressive and invasive of the 3.
Not only can melanoma appear where the sun doesn't shine? But it's also resisted by vitamin D. They all are.
You have to sit there and ask yourself: If humans weren't supposed to be in the sun then why would we have the brilliant color vision that we do that only works properly in full light? If humans weren't supposed to be in the sun, why don't we have better night/dark vision? If humans weren't supposed to be in the sun then why would we get the predominate majority of our vitamin D from direct exposure to the sun? And why would vitamin D be crucial in fighting of cancers like skin cancer if the body needs us to go straight into a source of it?

What's more likely? Humans just didn't have enough time to evolve over millions of years? Or do dermatologists need to get paid and basal cell surgeries bring in the dollars?

And I do realize there's a link between suntanning beds and skin cancers. Do know that nowhere during a day does a human only get bathed in just UV-A and UV-B like in a suntanning bed. In nature dawn and dusk have very little UV light. High noon is when you have the most UV light in the environment. Who said you had to sunbathe at high noon? Not only that but even if you were, you still have the full spectrum of light along with the UV at all times during the day.

(cont.)

>>945589899
A lot of red light therapies are based on the idea that these color bands aren't just inert, and if you think UV is the sole cause of skin cancer you have to concede this point from the start. So perhaps the healing aspects of the red counter-act the negative effects of the UV? What dermatologist tells you that?

3. And we also have to ask ourselves even if some of the people who sunbathe do get cancers in spite of the vitamin D... in spite of the red spectrum of light... was it really the sun? How does a massive confounding variable like SV-40 play into all this? Because that virus spreads horizontally and makes people more prone to developing cancers. There are people who rarely ever go into the sun and they come down with melanoma. The sunscreen and sun avoidance didn't save them.

... hmmm... this is already a long post. I could go on but for the sake of some non-brevity I'll cut it here.

(end.)

>>945590220
I trust that you did a lot of research and applaud the effort.
I'll still go with what my dermatologist said last time I came in to get a basal cell spot removed.
It just isn't worth the risk.

>>945590503
Thanks man, and hey, I don't blame you for seeking the peace of mind. Like I said, basal cell carcinoma is localized and easy enough to cut out if people are concerned.