I’m trying to learn more about the feeling that I’m not doing something right and that my priorities are wrong because I’m not considering the full picture.
It feels like I have something I need to do, but I don’t know what it is, but it’s gonna bite me in the ass when I realize it.
Do you all have any techniques or ways of thinking that help you evaluate where you actually stand in terms of doing all the things you need to do?
How do you go through your life and re-priorotize?
How do you feel confident in thinking I don’t have to do anything right now? I can just rest or do what I want?
How do you remember to do all this?
For medication, an alarm on my phone. For writing the tasks, it became an habit when I realized it would flush anxiety from my system to write what I just thought about doing and stop thinking about it. For remembering I need to do tasks, I put my whiteboard on a very obvious and accessible place and keep a pocket notebook and a pen in my pocket.
But mostly, it became an habit like reading emails or opening Lemmy, to just look at them and assess the time requirement to do them. When I am a few hours before a deadline, the pressure to do the task becomes clear and I hyperfocus on it until it’s done. Maybe not the most efficient way to work, but it worked for me!