Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.

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both of these simultaneously

Therapy is expensive, but there are free non-chatgpt resources out there

I've used all of these and can vouch for them. Stay safe, love u guys 💖

By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.

Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.

This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):

Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):

Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.

But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:

• Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.
• Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation
• Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.
• Meditation
• Martial arts
• Sports in general
• Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)
• Woodworking
• Cooking
• If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers

Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.

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"How to Life" Masterlist

Cleaning and Tidying

• Make your bed in the morning. It takes seconds, and it's worth it.
• Reset to zero each morning.
• Use the UFYH 20/10 system for clearing your shit.
• Have a 'drop-zone' box where you dump anything and everything. At the beginning/end of the day, clear it out and put that shit away.
• Automate your chores. Have a cleaning schedule and assign 15mins daily to do whatever cleaning tasks are set for that day. Set a timer and do it once the timer is up, finish the task you're on and leave it for the day.
• Fold your clothes straight out of the tumble dryer (if you use one), whilst they're still warm. This minimises creases and eliminates the need for ironing.
• Clean your footwear regularly and you'll feel like a champ.

Organisation and Productivity

• Learn from Eisenhower's Importance/Urgency matrix.
• Try out the two-minute rule and the Pomodoro technique.
• Use. A. Planner. (Or Google Calendar, if that's more your thing.)
• Try bullet journalling.
• Keep a notebook/journal/commonplace book to dump your brain contents in on the regular.
• Set morning alarms at two-minute intervals rather than five, and stick your alarm on the other side of the room. It's brutal, but it works.
• Set three main goals each day, with one of them being your #1 priority. Don't overload your to-do list or you'll hit overload paralysis and procrastinate.
• If you're in a slump, however, don't be afraid to put things like "shower" on your to do list - that may be a big enough goal in itself, and that's okay.
• Have a physical inbox - a tray, a folder, whatever. If you get a piece of paper, stick it in there and sort through it at the end of the week.
• Consider utilising the GTD System, or a variation of it.
• Try timeboxing.
• Have a morning routine, and guard that quiet time ferociously.
• Have a folder for all your important documents and letters, organised by topic (e.g. medical, bank, university, work, identification). At the front of this folder, have a sheet of paper with all the key information written on it, such as your GP's details, your passport details, driving licence details, bank account number, insurance number(s), and so on.
• Schedule working time and down time alike, in the balance that works for you.

Money

• Have. A. God. Damn. Budget.
• Use a money tracker like toshl, mint, or splitwise. Enter all expenses asap! (You will forget, otherwise.)
• Have a 'money date' each week, where you sort through your finances from the past seven days and then add it to a spreadsheet. This will help you identify your spending patterns and whether your budget is actually working or not.
• Pack your own frickin' lunch like a grown-up and stop buying so many takeaway coffees. Keep snacks in your bag.

Food and Cooking

• Know how to cook the basics: a starch, a protein, a vegetable, and a sauce.
• Simple, one-pot meals ("a grain, a green, and a bean") are a godsend.
• Batch cook and freeze. Make your own 'microwave meals'.
• Buy dried goods to save money - rice and beans are a pittance.
• Consider Meatless Mondays; it's healthier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly.
• Learn which fruits and vegetables are cheapest at your store, and build a standard weekly menu around those. (Also remember that frozen vegetables are cheap and healthy.)
• Learn seasoning combinations. Different seasoning, even with the exact same ingredients, can make a dish seem completely new.

Misc

• Have a stock email-writing format.
• Want to start running, but find it boring? Try Zombies, Run!.
• Keep a goddamn first aid kit and learn how to use it.
• Update your CV regularly.
• Keep a selection of stamps and standard envelopes for unexpected posting needs. (It happens more regularly than you would think!)

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some sources and resources as of april 2024

tv/cinema (streaming)

• fmoviesz dot to
• soap2dayx dot to
• anix dot to (for anime)
• flixtor dot to
• hdtoday dot to
• myflixerz dot to
• swatchseries dot is

if one of the sites i already use doesn't have what i'm looking for, i use duckduckgo to search for alternatives (as opposed to google which always gives me way more bullshit results)

skip paywalls

• 12ft dot io (doesn't always work)

books and academic articles

• libgen dot is
• sci-hub dot se
• audiobookbay dot is
• annas-archive dot org
• forum dot mobilism dot org (also hosts mobile apps)

video games

• myabandonware dot com (not technically piracy!)

torrent source

• 1337x dot to (pretty much the only source i use nowadays)

piracy guides

• my (very quick) torrenting guide
• easyussr.neocities.org/torrenting

edit: apparently necessary disclaimer that everyone and their mother knows about these websites, they can be found through any major search engine, and not talking about them on tumblr dot com won't keep them "secret" because the feds are already more than aware of them.

Source: beth_thefirstyear on Instagram

I have four muffin tips for making bakery style muffins at home.

Tip number one:

Rest your batter for 15 minutes in your mixing bowl after you make it. This is gonna allow the starch molecules to swell and absorb, creating the thicker batter and the thicker batter is known for doming!

Tip number two:

Fill your muffin holes with at least six to eight tablespoons of batter. That’s like a heaping half cup okay. You want them super full so they’re gonna create that dome.

Tip number three:

Kinda goes along with tip number two. You’re only gonna fill every other hole in your muffin pan. And why we do that - that’s so the muffins that are baking can spread and dome without running into their neighbors. Because when they run into their neighbors they get like square edges but we want perfect dome circles.

Tip number four:

You’re to bake your muffins at a high temperature initially. That’s gonna be 425*F for the first seven minutes. And then keep them in the oven and lower the temperature to 350*F for the remaining bake time. Starting the muffins off at a high temperature initially allows the muffins to rise rapidly and it sets the outer surface of the muffin, producing a dome shape.

There you have it. My four muffin tips for creating bakery style muffins.

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