The Most Difficult Things For Me To Do...

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figure out what my intensions are and if they are right/good

I know exactly what you mean. It's the simplest tasks that seem the hardest -- cleaning, if I mess up my schedule or have other people around; getting started on papers, even if I'm excited about the subject matter; doing my daily exercise, even though I enjoy it and want to do it. Sometimes, just getting up and moving is far more difficult than I can manage. Today, for instance, just went away with little to be shown for it and why? Because I couldn't make myself get up and do the things I had planned to do in more than the briefest spurts, and even then it felt like I was pushing my way uphill through mud.

The only things I have a kind of hard time doing are:

1. Getting started cleaning (I get overwhelmed with the mess).

2. Laundry (I'm fine with most whites and blacks, but get me into colors/patterns, and I get lost.)

When I don't have a structure, an absolute necessity to do x in order for y to happen, I struggle too.

Organising laundry is a particular problem - I tend to micro separate colours, and washing instructions, give up and then just end up washing the things I absolutely need tomorrow.

Not having clean clothes just adds another reason not to leave the house, interact with people.

I don't think my mind is good at coping with housework - it always tends towards perfectionism (and inaction), instead of getting the job done well enough, in a reasonable time.

Sorting recycling/rubbish is another problem area, with too many variables.

And food shopping is complicated by offers of the week, reduced items at the end of the day and managing to arrive at the supermarket at a time when the bread is fresh.

Someone remarked once that I seemed to have a lot of rules, that made tasks more difficult.