toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoHow do you talk yourself into doing things you know are good for you but you really don't wanna do?message-squaremessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down11
arrow-up1107arrow-down1message-squareHow do you talk yourself into doing things you know are good for you but you really don't wanna do?toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square49linkfedilink
minus-squareTJDetweiler@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoDumb as hell but I tell myself “nothin’ to it but to do it”, and then I do the thing. Like ripping it off like a bandaid.
minus-squareballer_w@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoYup. Very similar. I quiet the voice in my head saying “I’m too tired” or whatever with “ignore it and just get to it”.
minus-squareemmanuel_car@k.fe.derate.melinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoI’ve got a similar mantra - “it’s not hard, I just have to do it”. And then when it’s done I follow up with a “see, not hard, just had to actually do it”
minus-squareStaff@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoThat’s similar to a technique that is counting 3 2 1 and simply get up and do it
Dumb as hell but I tell myself “nothin’ to it but to do it”, and then I do the thing. Like ripping it off like a bandaid.
Yup. Very similar. I quiet the voice in my head saying “I’m too tired” or whatever with “ignore it and just get to it”.
I’ve got a similar mantra - “it’s not hard, I just have to do it”. And then when it’s done I follow up with a “see, not hard, just had to actually do it”
That’s similar to a technique that is counting 3 2 1 and simply get up and do it