wanderer03
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It's a corporate shuttle and they pay my bus company good money so I have to put on the best possible face. Come Friday afternoon, I'm plum worn out.Oh I that would get on my nerves too.
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It's a corporate shuttle and they pay my bus company good money so I have to put on the best possible face. Come Friday afternoon, I'm plum worn out.Oh I that would get on my nerves too.
I'm looking for strategies and advice for overcoming difficulties with executive functioning. By executive functioning, I mean financial matters like budgeting, keeping a balanced checkbook, planning, etc. I need something really simple because these matters tend to be meltdown triggers for me. This is also a source of embarrassment for me because I can do some really high end stuff with electronics and radio, yet seemingly basic executive functioning feels like the impossible task.
I feel the need to build this skillset as I am rapidly watching full time jobs turn into independent contractor positions. I fear the relative simplicity of having a paycheck that I can count on might be going away.
I'm looking for strategies and advice for overcoming difficulties with executive functioning.
Do you have a watch? I have a rather good sense of time but I don't have very good ability to judge how long something may takeWhen I come home with groceries I put the receipt on the refrigerator with a magnet. My girlfriend taught me to do this. So today I changed the receipt and I looked at the old one and found out that I had gone out yesterday for groceries. I had no idea I had. I thought it had been days. I have almost no sense of time. It took a piece of paper to tell me what I did yesterday. I hope this kind of brain is good for something. I do have a wonderful imagination.
Do you have a watch? I have a rather good sense of time but I don't have very good ability to judge how long something may take
Yes, I always wear a watch. For some reason I like to set a timer to tell me how long it has been since I ate. I say 'for some reason' because I do not know when I started doing it. It's just habit now. I think the longest I went without eating was more than 18 hours.
In the past I would forget to eat. It didn't really matter to me anyway. But I have been trying to make myself eat more because it is supposed to be healthy. I have a tendency to measure things. When I ate, how much water I drink, the temperature outside and inside. Maybe I do that because I feel lost and I am trying to be more in touch with what's happening. Maybe it is a way to feel more control. I do not know. I seem to like data.
I have never gotten myself the gift but for years I have wanted a set of gage blocks. They are pieces of block metal made to very exact dimensions and used for calibrating metal working tools. I do not have a need for them but the idea of having something with that degree of certainty soothes me. I am odd.
I have I have tend to like to measure things too. What kind of watch do you have? I have a Casio iliumator watch it has a altimeter and a barometer. Along a stopwatch,timer,alarm,and preset times across the world.
I like my Casio Illuminator I got my watch target on sale for $30 I am planing to put a new nylon band on it sense I don't like how the current band feel against my skinI stopped buying cool watches a few years ago. I have had two Casio Pathfinders, both pretty cool. But they were big. Now I want something small that doesn't get in the way and is inexpensive - those other watches cost a lot. My current watch is a Casio Phys STR-300. It was about $20, is light and small with button I don't too often accidentally press. It has five built alarms. Being inexpensive it has a plastic face instead of the crystal faces I had on the others. When it scratches I use plastic polish and a rotary tool.
I don't like how the current band feel against my skin
I am so glad you said that. I have things like that that are important to me too. If I don't care about something then I really don't care but if something doesn't feel right I can't stop feeling it, I need to change it.
Back to the subject of watches, I do miss having cool watches but it's not as important to me anymore. I did always want a Luminox but then they are only analog and I do need a countdown timer for laundry and a stopwatch to know how long it has been since I have eat and alarms to remind me. When I saw The Bourne Identity I liked the watch the main character had and thought about getting one until I found out it cost thousands of dollars. I had had no idea. My $20 Casio is working out fine. In fact, for some strange reason it is keeping perfect time. I keep checking the internet time to adjust my watch but it's always in sync. All the Casio watches I have had always lost about .6 seconds a day. This one doesn't seem to lose any or it is too small for me to measure.
I hope you find the band you want. Things that go against the skin if they aren't right can be really uncomfortable. My first pair of glasses felt like fire on my face. I hated them. I exchanged them for another that didn't bother me as much, in fact I have for short periods forgotten I had them on.