What simple thing do you have to psych yourself up for?

[Cryingatthegym]

For me it's going to the gym and putting on fake tan. Feel infinitely better after doing them, but for some reason both feel like insurmountable tasks until I get started.

What's yours?

Food shopping. I literally can’t stand it!!!

Going to work

Getting out of the house somedays.
Planning the weekly shop/ cooking

Ironing ☠️

Putting the bastard clean washing away.

Filling up the car with petrol.

Cleaning out the shower drain. 🤢

Ordering/collecting medication (repeat prescriptions specifically). I have SUCH a block about it 🙈

Stripping and remaking our bed. I’m 5’3 and we have a super king 💀

Life

Grocery shopping. Sometimes checking my banking app !!

Hate doing my nails. Brushing my teeth.
Hated it as a child… My DS hates it too!

Disposing of half a mouse and its entrails (cat kill).

Making a Superking bed. Food shopping, cleaning out the shower drain are definitely up there.
Mopping floors, cleaning toilets. Cleaning out the fridge. Vacuuming the car.

Since the stroke pretty much everything🙇🏻‍♀️it's all a negotiation with myself to do even the most simple/mundane things & doing them feels like I've done something huge, when I haven't. I miss my old life.

Making phone calls. I'm OK when I get going but the thought of phoning someone makes me worried for ages beforehand. No idea why and I've always been like this. Luckily I communicate by messenger/WhatsApp/text with most people but I have an elderly relative who I can only speak to by phone and I have to psych myself up to ring her.

Speaking to people on the phone, replying to text messages, ordering medication, booking appointments, washing floors, brushing teeth, taking make up off. Blimey, I could go on and on.

That's a good one. I'm okay in my personal life but HATE calling customers at work. I don't have to do it much anymore thankfully but when I do it takes a lot of mental preparation!

Washing my hair
Unloading the dishwasher
Putting petrol in the car

Hoovering upstairs, cleaning the car, going to the tip - did all three today, feeling very proud 😆

Everything that’s already been mentioned. And hanging up the washing

It's the opposite with the dishwasher for me, I have to trick myself into it by pretending I'm only unloading one cup while the kettle boils and keep going without thinking about it.

Contacting my Mum.

Hoovering the stairs. I always have to psych myself up for that! And changing the bedsheets

Putting clean clothes away… I prefer to live out of the pop up wardrobe aka the laundry basket like I am camping it seems.

and worst urghhh getting out of bed!