this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
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But how did you get to that point? Weeks of grinding out the task? Reminders? Alarms?
When I had kids I decided that I was going to live a healthy lifestyle to serve as a good example for them. Finding ways to exercise with them has been a lot of fun and then it just snowballed into me exercising on a very regular schedule and now I'm in the best shape of my life. Now it feels really weird if I have a day where I'm not doing some kind of exercise activity.
The same way you build any habit. The last two can be helpful but the first is the only essential piece. You make yourself do whatever it is you're trying to start doing until it feels weird to not do it.
Are you aware of what sublemmy you are in, lol? Or are you some kind of magical adhd-er who can actually form habits like neurotypical people do? If so, I am so, so very jealous
Oh I'm aware. Still, it's not a complex process conceptually. It's certainly more difficult to actually do than it is to outline but that's true for a ton of things. ADHD will make things harder to implement but it doesn't fundamentally alter the formula.