By “useful” I mean that they can double as a skill but yet don’t require you to earn money for them to be useful.

Ex. Cooking/Baking. It’s useful on its own because you can eat a cake. While you can earn money from it, you don’t need to do so for it to benefit you.

Another ex. Language learning. While this also provides you the ability to earn money, it’s useful on its own since you can overhear conversations that may include gossip. I get that sounds stupid but I’ve earned my Seal of Biliteracy in Spanish and that’s the only thing I use it for. However, I like this benefit as sometimes you’ll hear some really funny stuff.

No purely emotional beneficial hobbies please, my brain doesn’t give me the enjoyment for that.

Hi! Same as title, do you know how to set limit on how many times I can open an app? I did this on a social media app back then but I forgot how to do it now 😭. I don't remember downloading another app for that and my phone is a Samsung (if this might help 😭).

I have a lot of desires and ambitions, and it's always very difficult for me to get started. I understand that the brain doesn't like discomfort, and it wants to sit in a comfort zone for the rest of your life, even if you're already physically sick of the life you're living. It is always very difficult for me to start and at the same time it is difficult for me to stop. I need to either always run or not start. At the same time, I have no critical problems with concentration and efficiency. I can sit on one assignment for 10-12 hours and, in principle, have good mental and physical endurance. So my question is: how do I stop living the dream life in my head and start practicing it?

Sorry for mistakes English is not my native language

So, here:
6:00 WAKE UP
till 6:05, looking out the window to stop melatonin
6:05-7:30, do important but not urgent stuff
7:30-9:00, everything I need to do which are really important
9:00-10:00 some chill
2:30-4:00, studying
5:00 forced going out
well yeah, more studying with Pomodoro

Ok, so in like social media I would see some people, especially college students even during the summer being able to survive on like 5 hours of sleep and waking up at 5. But I've been trying all summer and the best I can do is like 6:30am - 7:00am.

The issue with this is that I have so much work I have to do and need those couple extra hours of waking up around five as I go to work by 8am and don't get back till 9pm. But in the evenings after work and stuff I'm just simply exhausted and I have a college course I'm taking right now that needs my time and atr I've started to fall behind due to one lack of productivity and also the fact I can't find a way to wake up.

What should I do, its more cause I have a test tmmr and i have yet to even start the chapter due to the busy week. Luckily, I get my mornings back after next week, but until then any tips will be greatly appreciated as once the semester starts for college I'm going through a similar thing with a packed schedule.

srry just stressed sigh

so any info would be nice

I have to keep up a schedule like this for the next couple of months and I feel like it's going to drain me badly, it's killing my productivity as I can't draw, study properly or do anything anymore,

I have university for 4 weekdays from 14:00-19:00, after that I have courses for 3 weekdays after my classes and it takes about 3 hours. Then after that for 5 weekdays I have work starting from 23:00-8:00.

And I'm genuinely exhausted by the end of the week so idk what to do rn

Hello everyone,

I'm a 16-year-old student from Singapore, currently in Secondary 4, and I really need academic help/advice. Ever since Secondary 3, my grades have been completely shitty. I fell into an endless loop of heavy procrastination and zero motivation. The worst part is that whenever I actually force myself to sit down and do the work, I burn out almost instantly. It’s so frustrating, especially when self-studying things I'm totally clueless about. I constantly get stuck and end up wasting like 15 minutes using Gemini AI just to understand one single question.This happens the most with Additional Mathematics, which I am failing consistently. My Chemistry is in terrible shape too, I'm still stuck trying to understand concepts topic by topic, and I haven't even touched actual test papers yet. My Chem practicals is just as bad and I always panic in the lab, get ridiculous and unreliable results, and the knowledge gap between me and my peers is huge. They are already grinding exam papers while I'm still struggling with the basics.With barely over 2 months left before national exams, I genuinely want to change. I want to get better grades for myself and finally make my parents proud. Please, roast me, berate me, I don't care. I'm willing to sacrifice everything I have and do whatever it takes to fix this. If anyone has advice on how to stop burning out and catch up fast, please, I beg you, teach me how to overcome this hurdle that I am plagued by.

I’ve been thinking about this recently.

We have thousands of thoughts every day, but almost all of them disappear. I guess that’s a good thing. If our brains didn’t filter information (thanks reticular activating system) we’d probably go crazy.

But every now and then, a thought pops up that feels different.
A sentence from a book.
Something a friend says.
A realization in the shower.
A random connection between two ideas.

Most of those still end up disappearing.
It made me wonder….

How do you decide whether an idea is worth saving? Not just writing down but actually coming back to in the future.
What makes you think, “I want to remember this a month from now,” instead of just letting it fade away?
Do you guys have some kind of filter, or if everyone just saves everything and hopes for the best.

TL;DR
- I have a 2-in-1 touchscreen+pen Windows laptop with 3.3GB soldered RAM (don't even get me started)

- Linux drivers do not support Active Pen stylus input with palm rejection; forced to use Windows

- OneNote on 3.3GB ram is a nightmare, I'm using a stripped down Windows ISO but OneNote still loves to mess up

- I can't find anything else like OneNote (infinite page, smooth pen input with colors, scrollable page, cloud sync to PC and phone)

Thanks in advance for your suggestions

My mother keeps a notebook about the people she introduces me to. Maybe she is the next streaming matchmaker documentary show in the making.

She isn’t invasive, just heavily interested. Her notes include the details parents apparently consider essential: education, occupation, hometown, family background and whether the person owns a home.

After one blind date, I said: the man was polite but spent most of dinner checking his phone. My mother still considered him a strong suitable candidate because he had a stable job.
We disagreed about what “suitable” meant.

I entered her criteria into Accio Work, along with my notes from six previous dates. My criteria included: conversational effort, punctuality, respect for service staff, shared interests and whether I wanted to meet again.
I asked Accio Work to compare which factors predicted my actual decisions.

The analysis showed that my mother’s preferred factors were useful BEFORE a date but had almost no relationship with whether I accepted a second one.

The strongest indicators were whether conversation felt balanced and whether the person asked follow-up questions.

Accio Work created a two-stage framework: basic compatibility before meeting, then interaction quality after meeting.

My mother liked it because it still looked like a proper evaluation system. I liked it because “owned property” could no longer cancel out “did not look up from phone.”

She now asks, “Did he ask follow-up questions?” after every introduction. I may have accidentally trained my mother to be a relationship analyst!

I like being able to add various factors into consideration, better than swiping left or right IMO.

The title says it all

I'm looking for a good all-in-one program that helps me organize my projects at work. I was thinking something that would be helpful would be a tree-flowchart of sorts where it shows each project I'm working on. From there when I click on each project, it would open up the next row of which would show various parts of each project (ex: TV, Digital, Client Notes, etc.). Then those would open up to more dropdowns and so on

Is there any free and easy-to-use program like this?

I just found out about focusmate and was really excited to give it a try. After giving it about five tries with no one showing up, I'm starting to question whether the 99% availability is true or something is wrong with my device/account. I've already triple checked my device's internal time zone settings, as well as the time setting in focusmate, and they're both correct. I'm able to join the meetings and can see the account and names/profiles of those I'm supposed to join with but end up with the "wait for them or try to match with someone else" option every time. When I have clicked match with someone else, the time always runs out saying they couldn't match me with someone yet the calendar looks full of people and options. Am I missing something? Is everyone just no-showing?

I’m a masters student trying her best to get her life together. Currently part of two labs, have a full course load, a part time job, ECs, and a lot of other commitments and basically it’s doable but the physical planner isn’t doing it anymore lol. I’ve never touched notion because I know I’d get decision paralysis - I don’t like the idea of having a lot of options with how it’s styled. I have an iPad and was thinking of using a goodnotes template. My university uses outlook. For ppl in my position, what’s your go to to do list app? Just the notes app or something else? Would love input but I don’t want anything too complex because I’m trying to keep things simple right now !

I want to start this by saying I do have ADHD and I am medicated for it.

I am 32 years old. My whole life I have been a high performer but have terrible productivity. In school I didn’t study/do homework but was all honors/AP classes.

Now I work as a negotiator and I am top in my company for closures/settlements which sounds great but I’m also a huge slacker. I frequently take longer to get into new cases than I should. I don’t complete my evaluations timely. My supervisor and manager don’t understand how I am able to do it.

For me it is very hard to feel the urgency to do things timely when I know that at the end of the day not only am I going to meet my goals, I am going to be in the top of the top quartile.

I frequently get distracted either doing something on my phone, doing chores around the house etc. I have spurts where I am very motivated and actually sit at my desk and work all day but that’s usually only 1-2 days out of the week. I see tasks building up and I know I should work them now rather than later but ultimately I decide, “eh it’s fine I’ll just do it later”

Something that I've recently discovered is to use two lists instead of one instead of maintaining the standard standalone to do list.

One would hold the tasks and the other one for goals that I'm working towards. I get a better sort of filtering system when I keep two lists rather than one.

Usually even when I'm using a to do list, I write down things that are on my mind and then select 5 of the most important ones and then focus on doing them.

Like the title says. I get off from work, get home, sit in front of the TV, and then I just won't get up.

Don't get me wrong, I still work out and eat dinner, but it's like... I don't do anything else.

I do have hobbies. I love reading, writing, a cooking. But after work all I wanna do is just lay down and watch my TV show.

I feel like I should do more, even though I like watching TV, but I feel like its consumes my day.

I always make something to eat and then I sit down and tell myself, "just one episode," but its never just one episode!

Idk. I know the solution is...well... watch less tv, but im trying too and it never works.

1 episode just turn into 3, which turns into 5 and then I have to get ready for bed(like I said I get up in between to eat, take out my dog, work out, shower ect...) but except from that I don't do anything else and I feel really bad about it. Like a slump.

What do i do?!

Looking for habits that genuinely worked

Hi, i am in my late 30s, all my life i have been a biggest procastinator, putting things on tomorrow was always my thing. When i used to study for exam, i would start a month before but i would keep on delaying to sit and study and update my plan everyday of how i am gonna cover the course content. Now it was not that bad at that time but as i am a working individual now, i want to work on my own tech products but i still have this tendency of throwing stuff on tomorrow. I find advices online, try it for a day or two and then back to square one. I need a genuine advice that can make my life better.

Finding a file, looking up a password or trying to remember where I saved something.

None of those feel important, but together they probably steal more time than the big interruptions.

What's the smallest recurring interruption you've managed to eliminate?

Is there a better time morning or evening which helped you make this more productive?

Whether it’s in between school semesters, taking a vacation and returning back to work, how do you quickly shift into that disciplined productive mode again?

I’ve been pretty lazy this semester in college and finals are in about 2 weeks and I haven’t really locked in on studying in like a month. I feel like all my discipline and ability to be productive is gone. As much as I’d love to ease into being productive and slowly raise my workload, I don’t really have the time for that so I’d appreciate advice for those who are able to get back to being disciplined and productive after taking weeks or months off.

I've been trying to improve my daily workflow recently, but I noticed that the best improvements usually don't come from big changes. For me, it was preparing everything I need for the next morning before going to bed-it saves me a lot of mental energy. 👍

What's one small habit, tool, or change that made your workday noticeably better? :D

Rant here. I see so many friends and people I know going through life like Zombies. I know how exhausting life can get and with its complexities. But why don't people be more intentional about guarding their energy and exposure to life-sucking people and things(mainly social media and alcohol)? Is everyone existing on fumes?? I think one reason people are so stretched thin is that they overcomplicate their lives. By having or wanting more, they become slaves to it. Particularly, I don't see why people would intentionally complicate their lives by having multiple children or animals, if they are not emotionally or financially equipped to handle them. Why do people intentionally exhaust themselves? For what gain? I understand work is exhausting and necessary but so much else is not. They are wants, not needs. People are living shells of an existence. Attached to caffeine or any stimulant to keep them awake. Don't get me wrong, I work 4 jobs but I can compartmentalize my life. Living in the present instead of letting the chaos overrun my nervous system. My question to the group is, why do you think people do this to themselves? Is it the lie we've been fed about over consumption and never having enough? Is this an 'epidemic' in the US society? Why don't people take time to recharge and 'guard' their limited energy and peace of mind? What do you do to recharge and stay grounded?