Don't ADD medication looks like an easy way of not improving your willpower ?
You let an external mechanism do the work for you.
I think the author is in the right way :
>it's starting to really gnaw at me
tehwalrus's advices are really good, except for the 1st one.
> 1) don't waste cognitive energy on silly tasks (games, arguing in comment threads, etc.)
You should not focus on that, but on all the other points : Go do some sports (Because you didn't do it in the past doesn't mean you're doomed not to do some now)
And when you do it, time yourself and push it a little bit more each time (lifting stronger weights, running a bit faster, etc.). You don't need some instructor to yell at you to do that, just by strongly thinking of the idea of improving yourself (mentally and physically) will yield to incredible results.
At the end, the " don't waste cognitive energy on silly tasks (games, arguing in comment threads, etc.)" will happen without you paying attention to it : You must not force yourself from not playing games, you just mustn't feel the need to.
At work it's a bit different, if you feel you're still doing nothing, it would really help you to remove distractions from you, as said in some blogs : block websites that makes you unproductive from your work computer. When you feel you need a break, just look at them on your tablet, if possible, by changing of physical location, that will make you realize when you're not working, and so you will say to yourself : "ok, time to get back to work".
If you stay at your computer desk all day it's harder to have this "time to get back to work" kicking.
You let an external mechanism do the work for you.
I think the author is in the right way :
>it's starting to really gnaw at me
tehwalrus's advices are really good, except for the 1st one.
> 1) don't waste cognitive energy on silly tasks (games, arguing in comment threads, etc.)
You should not focus on that, but on all the other points : Go do some sports (Because you didn't do it in the past doesn't mean you're doomed not to do some now) And when you do it, time yourself and push it a little bit more each time (lifting stronger weights, running a bit faster, etc.). You don't need some instructor to yell at you to do that, just by strongly thinking of the idea of improving yourself (mentally and physically) will yield to incredible results.
At the end, the " don't waste cognitive energy on silly tasks (games, arguing in comment threads, etc.)" will happen without you paying attention to it : You must not force yourself from not playing games, you just mustn't feel the need to.
At work it's a bit different, if you feel you're still doing nothing, it would really help you to remove distractions from you, as said in some blogs : block websites that makes you unproductive from your work computer. When you feel you need a break, just look at them on your tablet, if possible, by changing of physical location, that will make you realize when you're not working, and so you will say to yourself : "ok, time to get back to work".
If you stay at your computer desk all day it's harder to have this "time to get back to work" kicking.