Hey all, new here and figured I'd chime in on this one as I'm really struggling with this myself. I friggin' love the internet, have spent entire days, weeks when I was unemployed, just sitting around surfing the web or watching movies. My usual haunts include FB, TONS of time wasted on YouTube, and cycling through these with interspersed visits to porn sites. As a result, my personal responsibilities at home and to friends and family have suffered severely, and even my work has suffered. I had to disable the internet on my phone because I would spend too much time on it at work. That situation improved immensely after that, but I'm not entirely out of the woods there as I will stay up late into the night browsing around on the net and my performance the next day will suffer.

However, what is most severely impacted is for sure my responsibilities at home. Dishes, housecleaning, outside chores, and personal projects will all frequently get put on the backburner while I procrastinate on the web, especially youtube. I will dive down rabbit holes on youtube for hours upon hours, exploring all kinds of subjects, or just zoning out with memes.


Anybody got some exercises I could try to help me refocus my attention on what needs doing rather than zoning out on the web? Ways I can motivate myself to do my chores?