People with ADHD, how do you build lasting habits?
2 by lazyhummingbird | 1 comments on Hacker News.
While I've always been able to succeed at the things that interest me or naturally motivate me, I've begun to realize that starting new habits –while difficult for nearly everyone– is extremely difficult for me. ADHD seems to make it much harder to obtain the behavioral building blocks of new habits (repetitive behaviors, scheduling, rigor). I know that discipline means doing things I don't feel like doing, and I genuinely want to be disciplined, but it feels like I am climbing with Teflon gloves. Medication does help me stay focused on momentary tasks that I already have some motivation to accomplish (on the scale of hours) but does little to help me build that motivation. (Also, I can't be medicated daily in my career.) What could help?
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