I don’t right now. It seems so daunting. I’ve tried it before, but I always seem to keep it in short term memory. Since the schizophrenia, I have not been doing much – even basic hygiene. My brother keeps harping me about doing one. He gave me a deadline of Monday to do one.
I don’t like being put in a box. I get stressed out even doing 1 major task a day, which might be small for the average person; I would get stressed out if I had a doctor’s appt. and not do anything else except focus on that.
He’s a good kid. Always cares and helps me out. Perhaps, it’s good to be in a box once in a while.
So, does anyone else have a schedule or daily planner for small stuff? I’m considering one. Any benefits you see? Is it too hard for you? Do you even need one?
I tried that approach and it didn’t work out for me. I mainly use “reminders” to remind me of stuff that I absolutely have to do than a daily “to-do” list.
A free app called My Therapy to nag about meds and exercise. MyFitnessPal for tracking food and exercise. Google Calendar for everything else. I rely heavily on prompts from my phone and smart watch to keep moving.
5am wake have coffee
530am have smoothie
6am run on treadmill
630am shower and shave
7am prep lunch
730am commute to work
8am-430pm work or study and eat lunch
430pm commute home
5pm workout
6pm eat dinner
7pm quick shower
730pm home chores
830pm unwind/relax, eat snack
9pm-5am sleep.
this is for when im hopefully working monday through friday. i don’t have a weekend schedule. like i said, i rarely stick to them.
sometimes i don’t workout every day, because i get sore and have to take a couple days off. i probably could squeeze at least an hour or so of additional downtime in there. some things don’t take a long time, but i would feel pretty accomplished to complete the whole schedule consistently.
I think i tried but failed, it works for some people, maybe if i had a lot to remember i’d do it but mostly i just keep things in my head, i have an alarm i can set reminders on my phone with,
I would suggest if you are doing it to try and start with just one thing at a time bc you could get overwhelmed with too much if you dont, focus on one thing you can do every day then try and build on that. something doable, and if you achieve your goal for that day then maybe high five your bro or something lol
if i was working i would, im decent functioning right now but i get into bad habits and waste time. i maintain my property daily, and prepare my food. shower, do a bit of reading most days, get a workout in and walk/run on my treadmill. hopefully i will be employed soon, so i have some more money to go with all the effort. i’ve always been a bit lazy, maybe it’s negatives the whole time. like i would work, but then i would eat fast food because i didnt want to cook for myself. lived off fast food from 16-25 ages.
once i start working, i may not do as much around the house. and may skip workouts. and revert back to my younger self. a person spends so much energy at work, a lot of times i just want to come home and relax after.
Maybe a better place to start is to physically write down your goals and dreams on paper… you do not seem to have word salad so it should be possible to do this
Getting over sz is one of your major goals but not the only one.
On a daily basis though it’s good to distinguish between a project and a task or subtask. Getting groceries is in a sense a project: putting bananas in your cart is more of a task… Checking out is a mini project/subroutine itself: putting stuff on the conveyor belt, saying hello to the cashier getting out your wallet, etc… But most of us have done this a lot of times so it is pretty automatic and subconscious.
To make any unfamiliar complicated project automatic takes a lot of practice and discomfort I think. If you know how to multiply two numbers on paper you probably know more about subroutines than you realize.
I haven’t found one app that does it all for me. I use Google calendar, a simple to do list app, a tree task app and Google docs/sheets.
One really good idea someone told me is to set an alarm clock on your phone(not just a reminder) for any really important task or appointment.
I have to remind myself too that the number of tasks (and just about anything I can measure for myself) is going to fall on a bell curve. There are going to be a few days where I barely do anything, a few days where I do a huge amount and most days where I get about an average amount of tasks done.
You can condition yourself to get a ton of stuff done almost every day but I find when I do that I just get very stressed and less focused on what’s really important.
I sometimes use an app called Todoist to make lists that you can check off when you complete the task. You can also make project folders and have separate lists inside. Like “kitchen” and all the things you need to do to clean the kitchen, for example.
It probably has more advanced features too, but keeping it simple works better for me.
I have a planner and every day I make a list. I try to do the whole list before I watch TV or look at my phone. Some days I procrastinate but at least I know what I need to do. Without a list I just wander around and get nothing done.
but at least I know what I need to do. Without a list I just wander around and get nothing done.