If you have ADHD and have been trying to motivate yourself to clean, but keep failing, you already know willpower isn’t the answer. The true secret to consistent motivation is making mess feel wrong to your brain—so that it makes you actually want to clean. This post shows you how to design your space to trigger prediction errors—little brain-glitches that spark surprise and release dopamine. Do it right, and your…
Cleaning Without Willpower
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The Secret to Finally Feeling Done With Cleaning—Clean With ADHD Part 3
Do you hate cleaning? Does it feel never-ending? Do you start cleaning a room, get to the point where you should actually be finished, yet even after all that work it still doesn’t feel clean—because everywhere you look, you keep spotting more things you missed? A sauce splatter on the backsplash, a few crumbs on the floor even though you already vacuumed, or maybe it’s just a vague feeling that…
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How to Make Your Brain Want to Clean—Clean With ADHD Part 2
Imagine walking into a room, noticing things out of place, and actually experiencing a mental and physical urge to clean them up—rather than thinking “ugh… more work…I’ll do it later” and needing to sit down to doomscroll for two hours in an attempt to collect enough energy just to start. Imagine an effortless, automatic need to tidy up—because even the thought of leaving the mess there feels repulsive—like leaving the…