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  • Things that should be enjoyable keep landing flat, and I can’t see why
  • Right in the middle of a good moment a thought pipes up
  • The dull repetitive chores are where I check out completely
  • I keep doing this thing I swear I’ll stop, and I genuinely can’t say what sets it off or what I’m even getting out of it
  • The same painful thing keeps happening to me in totally different situations

Practices that may help

  1. Identify and reduce your personal savoring killers
    Notice the mental habits that most reliably interrupt your positive experiences and address them specifically.
    Savoring the Moment, Made Practical
  2. Catching the kill-joy thoughts
    Notice and set aside the thoughts that quietly sabotage your enjoyment.
    Savoring: Getting More From the Good
  3. Re-engage boring tasks by finding a process goal
    Replace “finish this boring thing” with a craft goal that makes the process worth attending to.
    Mind Wandering and the Default Mode Network
  4. Map the cue-routine-reward loop
    Break a habit into its three parts before you try to change anything.
    The Power of Habit, Made Practical
  5. Recurring pattern identification
    Name a pattern you keep repeating across different contexts, and trace where it began.
    Svadhyaya: Self-Study as a Daily Practice
  6. Use variety to slow adaptation in recurring pleasures
    Introduce unpredictable intervals into recurring pleasures to keep the reward fresh.
    The Hedonic Treadmill, Made Practical
  7. Assess the function of the habit before trying to stop it
    What does the habit give you? The competing response needs to meet the same underlying need.
    Habit Reversal Training, Made Practical
  8. Map the short-term and long-term consequences of the behavior
    List what the behavior actually produced — good and bad, immediate and delayed.
    Behavioral Chain Analysis: The DBT Method for Understanding Problem Behaviors
  9. Build your personal pleasant events inventory
    List every activity that has ever generated even mild pleasure — including things not done in a long time.
    Pleasant Events Scheduling, Made Practical
  10. Keep a task-unrelated thought log
    Capture off-task thoughts that recur so you can address them outside work time.
    Mind Wandering and the Default Mode Network

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