brightlotusmoon:

dorknewton:

brightlotusmoon:

In one of my ADHD groups, a question about motivation and inability to start came up. This is one of the comments:

“Mel Robbins (who is also ADHD) talks about 54321-go. She wrote a whole book on it, but its mainly as soon as you think of something or have / want to do something, you count down from 5 to 1 then MOVE YOUR BODY TOWARDS WHAT EVER IT IS YOU NEED TO DO before your brain can talk you out of it. There loads of neuroscience why this works and before I was diagnosed I used this technique all the time. From getting out of bed, to getting a shower, to reading, stopping scrolling, stopping watching tv to literally everything if I needed to. I still do. It really helps me. And like you say, once you get started its okay, and then the dopamine kicks in. She did a talk on it, I think if you google it will come up. Also, tyrosine and theanine is good for me too. Hope this helps.”

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I looked it up and I’m going to try it.

https://kaizenlife.org/2018/01/20/the-5-second-rule-54321-go/

Tried this before I even finished reading it and now I am out of bed

Good news, it worked on me too.

Now I have something to measure against executive dysfunction, chronic fatigue, dyspraxia, hypertonia, etc. If I do the countdown, twice, and I still can’t move, I can focus on the physiological disabilities to see what else is impairing me.