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Self-help books for daily life management

vergil96

vergil96

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Do you recommend any self-help books? I have a book for ADHD and I have found it helpful, but it fails to address organisation from an autism perspective. I see a benefit to breaking tasks into manageable pieces, but I'm often too exhausted to do them or I can't figure out effective ways to deal with some aspects of cleaning and hygene and they take me way longer than they should and a way more exhausting than they should. More self-discipline doesn't help with that and it took a large portion of this book. For example they say to try harder and use forms of self-reinforcement, but it only stresses me out and makes me feel agitated which makes it much harder to comolete the tasks. Or to remove distractions - I have the same effect and came up with using "benign distractions" as I call them, so for example I listen to music while doing something, I might switch to listening to music while cleaning, but I won't go down the rabbit hole like when googling something, shopping online, beginning a whole different task. Well, anyway, I'm curious what kind of techniques are used and are effective for self-organization for people with autism, not only ADHD. I also like the structure and consistency that books provide, I keep on reading scattered things online and it doesn't really sink in...
 
I recommend a couple

No Bad Parts by Richard C Schwartz (It's on youtube as an audiobook)

The four agreements and the mastery of love by Don Miguel Ruiz (Highly recommend the four agreements)

The monk who sold his ferrari by Robin Sharma

The Alchemist by Paulo Cohelo (highly recommended as well)
 
A Guide to the Good Life: the ancient art of Stoic joy.

From the Stoics I learned that regardless of life's events, what we can control are our responses to them. I also learned to practice introspection and the value of community.
 
Thank you, however, I meant something about how to keep a flat reasonably clean and not go crazy in the process
 
vergil96 said:
Thank you, however, I meant something about how to keep a flat reasonably clean and not go crazy in the process
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Apologies, my mind wandered to self-help books in general

I can't really help you in that regard but there may be someone who can
 
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