Sorry for the frustrations. Good you are thinking about these things, that’s an awesome step in the right direction, instead of letting it swallow you up. Hope as each day goes by you will get more satisfied with your life.
Did you used to make a chart? If so was that helpful for you?
Maybe that would help w brushing your teeth. Or a check or an X on a calendar.
Find some joy amongst the frustrations!
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I did make charts a while back. They helped, but I added a point system which badly affected my self-esteem. I’m going to give it another try though.
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Maybe skip the point system? Have you done any of the affirmations? You could do them and brush teeth at same time!
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Absolutely
No, I completely forgot
Great idea
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plus ten characters.
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I could relate to surprisingly much of this actually… Congrats on so much sober time my friend, and to have started nice and early! 
I guess it’s just an over-dependence on screens in general that’s a legitimate problem… Noticing and consciously working upon these progress-killers is vital for growth in the long-run, so go for it bud, and thanks for rekindling my awareness of this too actually! 
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Behold, my new checklist.
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Looking good! 
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Nice list! We all could benefit from using it! Hope you will have a good sense of accomplishment as you put those yeses in there!
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Nice one, I have a daily routine & checklist too, looks good! 
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To no surprise I caved until the start of a new week. Always happens. It wasn’t bad or anything. No TV shows were watched and I never watched YouTube past 1:30 AM. But I’m sure that there are people that think 1:30 AM is insane. So it probably is. Active addiction either way though.
Here’s to my new day 1.
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I need to vent
My mom’s been collecting stuff for the Afghan refugees which is great. What isn’t great is that she dumps it all in our garage and no one is coming to pick it up. Especially as that is where I keep my bicycle. I have to put my bike in that mass everyday which is a pain in the ass. And I have to guide my bike out of their each morning which just is a bad start to the morning. So I was grumpy when I left home this morning. Then my chain started skipping teeth on my sprocket which cycles very annoying and triggers my autism. This has been happening for months and I am fucking done with the trash bike. So I very impulsively kicked the chain, but it slipped. So then my foot didn’t meet the resistance I expected and it hit my wheel. I dented my wheel big time and fucked up my shoes. FUCK YOU KARMA!!!
I’ve really got to do something about that aggression. Or perhaps just my acceptance of annoying things as they 99% of the time cause my aggression. Perhaps that will come with age. My wisdom is often higher that that of my peers. My behaviour often indicates I’m still just a child who can’t stand being powerless over annoying little things.
I did learn a lesson though as this childlike behaviour will cost me €100+
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I had problems with anger management, still have sometimes. It was always triggered by annoying little things (they added up) and it was never about them. It was fed by the tension I experienced in everyday life, by the powerlessness and vulnerability I thought I handled well. It’s never about the insignificant stuff, they are just triggers.
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I would say 1:30AM is not smart, but I wouldn’t call it insane. I hope you can get enough rest regardless.
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I’ve discovered a song called weightless by Marconi union and it works better to relax me then adhd medicine. It’s great. I believe it’s been posted on TS somewhere before, in the meme wars or something
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Glad you learned something even if it was expensive. It reminds me that I better service my snowblower so I’m not kicking it when it starts snowing. 
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Today turned out to be surprisingly all right. Got a lot of homework done. Work was chaos as most of our freezer wall died, so I had to empty that succer ASAP. But I think I did a good job. After work I talked to co-workers for over an hour. I did not let today become the awful day I nearly let it become.
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Well done! Progress, not perfection 
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Voila! C’est magnifique! I like seeing that gratitude list on there! Wishing you another all right day.
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I have a massive cold. I hate it. Everyone is scared that I have corona even though I’ve had 2 negative tests. I do not like it. And I slept like shit because I tried to kill my cold by sleeping under 6 blankets 
Thankfully I didn’t have to go to school this morning so I could sleep until 10:20 AM. After that I called my optician for an eyetest because I’m curious if my glasses still work for me eyes. And to ask if they could repair my glasses. Something I’d been procrastinating for almost a year. And I made an appointment with my physician for my fucked up shoulder that I’ve been ignoring for almost 600 days. The glasses I already got fixed this morning and at the end of the afternoon I’ll go to my physician.
Despite my cold, today has so far been good.
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