I suspect I have some ADHD or something similar too, and I observed that difficult things stop being difficult when I develop a habit around them. Basically, “doing it for the first time” and “doing it after I haven’t been doing it for months” are super hard. But “doing the same thing I did yesterday” is easy.
In context of cooking, it means it is easier for me to cook the same two or three meals over and over again. Choices are bad, mindless repetition is good. I mean, I should think about the things that I want to do, but at a different time than when I am actually supposed to do them—at that moment, thinking just leads to procrastination.
Precise plans are easier to do. “Cut some vegetables” is too abstract. “Cut 1⁄3 of iceberg lettuce, 1⁄3 of Chinese cabbage, a few cherry tomatoes, and put some dressing on top of that, maybe add some meat” is a plan I can do reliably.
I suspect I have some ADHD or something similar too, and I observed that difficult things stop being difficult when I develop a habit around them. Basically, “doing it for the first time” and “doing it after I haven’t been doing it for months” are super hard. But “doing the same thing I did yesterday” is easy.
In context of cooking, it means it is easier for me to cook the same two or three meals over and over again. Choices are bad, mindless repetition is good. I mean, I should think about the things that I want to do, but at a different time than when I am actually supposed to do them—at that moment, thinking just leads to procrastination.
Precise plans are easier to do. “Cut some vegetables” is too abstract. “Cut 1⁄3 of iceberg lettuce, 1⁄3 of Chinese cabbage, a few cherry tomatoes, and put some dressing on top of that, maybe add some meat” is a plan I can do reliably.