Do you have counter productive routines?

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Are there parts of your routine or routines that are counter productive?

If so what are they? And how can you counteract them?

Also...when you have a routine...how long has the routine been there?

Can you say pick up a routine for a week? month? year?

How do you base your routines?

I find my routines are based on what worked the previous day and then try to repeat with minimal success though I do keep something going, executive function is a huge problem for me.

My problem is that I need to complete tasks in a specific, prearranged order. So, it works badly for me when something is of greater importance, but it falls lower in the order to be done. In the past, I had messed things up royally doing this, sometimes not paying bills on time or failing to get to appointments... The last few years though, I have been more willing to break the routines, but even when I do, I am conscious of "overriding a rule."

what are a few things you MUST do in order to have a decent day?

I need to listen to some music to wake my mind up or else I wont be able to organize my thoughts into anything other than move from one roome to another.

I didn't eat oatmeal today but instead substituted with a bagel because my dad ate all of my oatmeal which caused me to forget to listen to music today until night time.

So...I didn't do much today unfortunately...sat around trying to figure out why I couldn't get things done or what it was I needed to go on with my day.

Does that sound familiar or not?

I supposedly have comorbid ADD....but I am not in total agreement on this....(might be relevent to somebody)

I need to complete specific housework projects daily. Eight of them to be exact.

Food I have to eat randomly. Basically, I pick a number 1 through 10 and it determines what I eat. This helps to prevent my Aspergian tendency to eat the same things every day.

Depends on what you see as unproductive. On the outside they could seem unproductive but they are probably necessary for our sanity.

I defiantly have resistance to change that is unproductive, but I can't think of any routine I have that is truly a nuisance rather than just an inconvenience sometimes. If I can't do the basic routine I feel lost and can't even do my interests.

Can you give me an example of when your routine was messed up or something was skipped? And why did you skip something? What was skipped?

Checking e-mail and Facebook...and then I don't know how to leave my computer.
If I write a list of things to do today I will decide to jump to one of those tasks.
Right now I have 1 or 2 things left on my to-do list, but I think I'll wait.