It gets easier to remember when you get dependent on it and your hands hurt if you don't put lotion on them. That might just be because I live in a desert, though.
Same, desert folk checking in. My hands THIRST for lotion.
Or somewhere cold. Or if you wash your hands frequently.
Repetition and consistency
Do it every time you remember and don't torture yourself if you forget. Force yourself at first and set up reminders, post-it notes, alarms, whatever.
At first you'll be annoyed, you may even feel dumb but after a month or two it will become habit and you'll forget less and less .... after a few more months it will become automatic.... after a few years you'll become so attached to whatever it is you'll feel strange not doing it.
It's how I maintained daily journal writing for so many years. Don't get me wrong, years ago I was sporadic and did an entry once a week, sometimes once a month or skipped an entire summer but now I do it every day. Some days my entries are long, some days I only write a sentence or two but I always get myself to record something every time.
Now I feel strange when I don't fill in my daily writeup.
My hydration secret is I have someone give it to me in a basket everyday and if I don't put the lotion on my skin I get the hose again.
So that takes care of showering too! Awesome life-hack!
And I bet the rent is cheap.
I was so bad at self-care for this exact reason until I started using the Finch app. Now, I have to keep up with it to make my birb grow and thrive. I even got three friends to use it, and now we are all addicted to self-care. Amazing how we are more interested in taking care of a cartoon bird more than ourselves.
ADHD is a helluva drug
Also meanwhile, the post the other day about, "okay, desk is clear, I can focus.. huh- check these out.. hands? Eh? Wow. Fascinating... "
