• @Graphy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      96 days ago

      Me every time I visit my mother in law

      Just an oil change turned into serpentine belt, brake, and rotor replacement.

      Just clean the two story gutters turns into a full gutter replacement and patching some shingles

    • @TheKetchupSong
      link
      56 days ago

      It’s nice to know I’m not alone at being incapable.

  • @lurklurk@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    96 days ago

    What helped me was the realisation that procrastrination was a loop of distracting myself to avoid feeling bad about not having done the thing yet.

    It unlocked the ability to go “Does this actually need doing?” and if so “I feel bad about doing this and would like to escape it by doing something more fun right now, but that will make me feel worse later so I’ll just do it now and accept feeling bad for a few moments while starting the task”

    Some tasks don’t actually need doing and then I can stop feeling bad about them

    YMMV