Routine- is it helpful or demotivating?

[Liz-e]

I oscillate between enjoying routine and becoming bored by it. How is routine for you? Any helpful tips for building discipline?

[Anonymous]

It’s helpful but you have to do it gradually. Us aspies have a tendency to min-max everything, but I would start with one thing at a time. Also, you have to have good things in you routine. The best for me is: Take a hot shower, read for an hour, exercise with power, then you devour (breakfast). And this is all before work. It’s not easy keeping this up every day, but I feel it is a healthy amount of discipline.

[Liz-e]

Awesome Brendan 🙌
What strategies do you use when you don’t feel like doing min-max in the morning?

[DragonEmbers]

Try to build up the routine from things you actually like to do; that helps you stick to it.

Do something different on days you’re tired of the routine.

Have multiple routines and switch between them.

Pick appropriate times of the day for the unpleasant things you need to do, such as:

first thing in the morning, when you have the energy/motivation

last thing at night when you’re too sleepy to care that it’s boring

etc.

[Brad]

Routine goes the distance for me. It is the peace keeper. Like to know what I am doing, when, where. I can budget the time I have on hand so everything is met. It is also important because, it represents the only thing left to value or chase.

Really need that motivation, knowing I have something to look forward too.

With Routine you can schedule your dopamine fixes. So even if your stressed for time, you know in X amount of time the price of wearing this mask is up and your rewarded. The reward is doing said thing you have been looking forward to all that time. Absent communication, you just get to be you. Hell yeah.

Absent that, no motivation. That’s not a fun weight to carry.

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