Time management and organization did not come to me naturally. Since the second child arrived, I saw experts when life became impossible. I never thought of listening to my own rhythm and body. I thought productivity was not to understand, but to master.
Then I hit the wall.
I was tired of feeling like this. So I did not fight my own nature. We did not receive productivity advice from people without ADHD.
For years, I tried to shake myself as a structured, disciplined, and neat organization. A person who can follow a system designed for a brain that doesn’t work like me. Why did I believe that I can manage my time in the same way?
The change was subtle but changed everything. I am not worried anymore and are moving towards the purpose. I know that I will be trapped again, but I also know this: I am chasing a solution that I could never work for me.
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Notes on productivity, rest and reasonableity
Notes for productivity.
I define productivity as a meaningful way for my life for myself and others, as I said. I tried to heal the burning out with “rest” for two years. If it turns out, rest is not just tranquility. To learn how to rest and restore any kind of rest That I changed everything.
Notes for rest.
Different kinds of rest follows different kinds of productivity. Knowing what you need means you know the limit. If you try to function like a person without ADHD, it went further from the signal. The ADHD brain requires relaxation of other types of emotional, mental, creative, physical, and passive.
We do not recharge while watching TV. I recharge with reading, cooking, long walks, and pilates practice. It may always seem to go out to outsiders, but this kind of exercise restores me. Sometimes it is self -management to construct a junk drawer. In other cases, it is a warning signal. If you are mentally drained, the TV will help. If you are overwhelmed emotionally, you will feel trapped. Learning a difference changed everything.
Notes for value.
We learn to measure our values by what we produce. Some of my middle -aged journey rejects it and solves my value from my output, making Rather endowment. If you are in that thick state, this post may not be necessary today.
Your value is not your job. But creating -creation, moving, and forming nothing is the following expression: you. It is to give life. Trust is built. It is to pull you out of the spiral before catching you. When I started respecting my inner driving, productivity stopped something I chased. It has become a natural result to find my flow. Exercise, not exhaust. Creation, not extraction. And it changed everything.
When I started respecting my inner driving, productivity stopped something I chased. It has become a natural result to find my flow. Exercise, not exhaust. Creation, not extraction. And it changed everything.
Life with mental and physical limitations
I am a working mother with a deep gratitude for hobby, social life, and good night sleep and physical movement every day. I don’t want to give anything. So I admit that there is no long and untrained stretch for deep focus work.
I also admit that I don’t know if I need it sometimes remain or momentum. The only way to know is to adjust my body. Emotional regulations are required.
The ability to approach the most “productive” self is limited and inconsistent. If you know that I can’t always make the right choice, it will help to find grace without being shameful. I made it impossible to finish my work. We do not do that anymore. One day I can give me what I need. Someday I’m just a mess. Life continues.
It is unrealistic to achieve optimal productivity every day. When doing yoga, my body can give a completely different feeling on the day and the next day. The brain is the same. There is a time Work and life feels like an uphill battle. The change of work is more difficult than before. And the card has a season that is not efficient.
I had to hack the system because I didn’t have time to focus. In doing so, I learned three essential principles that help to end work with nervous brain. Simplicity, emergency and momentum.
How they form my daily life are as follows.
Three principles I follow for improved “productivity”
Principle 1: Simplicity
I capture the idea, document it, and keep a simple system for constructing everything above. The key is that it is easy to repeat the process and everything can be easily accessible. It’s not too complicated. This is the most important.
I use it Note app and Notification app Not only my phone concept Save ideas and tasks. I also write things on paper because I can’t be a complete digital person. The brain is handled completely different from typing. In addition to the concept, the app on my phone is very simple and easy to use.
I use a bucket system for digital files (and physical objects in my house). How to keep the house while drowning. I use a digital bucket to make a file in my computer in categories such as a list of things to do, writing, business project, content creation, family, family, learning, finance, mental health, cooking, travel, physical health and customers.
Principle 2: Emergency
People who are familiar with delays know that if you feel the pressure of time, they end up working. But when I put off and hurry to finish everything quickly, I think it’s not enough because I don’t have time to practice deep work and get all the ideas. To break the circulation of delays, you need to create your own urgency. This principle works through the timer I use (described in detail below).
Principle 3: Momentum
In some actions, it is very important to create an exercise because I have long known that the most difficult part is starting. For people with ADHD, the principle of exercise continues, because it is too difficult to switch.
In order to make every daily momentum, we implemented a morning routine that suits the basics and prioritizes the most difficult things. I get up, brew coffee and sit to work immediately. This creates a natural dopamine inflow that can take me all day. I meditated and stretched before I worked, but now I do it after finishing a lot of focus. I am amazing when I use this momentum and I’m ready to deal with everything.
4 Productivity tools vow
For the same reason, I use a pen and paper, so I like physical tools that are not in my phone. There are always four at the desk.
1. Keep the track planner: This planner will help you plan the details every week.
2. timer: This is for practicing pomodoro technology, simulation and simulation and constraints. I have three of them.
3. brick: The brick block selects the app from my cell phone for a fixed time. It is very important for me to have physical tools to limit my digital access. Brick wins for simplicity.
4. Apple headphones: Lock and adjust. White noise, sound bowl, EDM, rap. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it is not what happens around me.
It is also as follows for some chosen resources and people for advice on productivity.
My work routine
On Sunday night or Monday morning, I have a brain Keep the track planner-Works, ideas and memos collected all week were collected from notifications and notification apps. Then use it Eisenhower Matrix It is classified as urgent, waiting, what can be delegated, and just what noise is. I hate plans, but I learned that I can do everything else if I promote this stage.
When it is time to work, I take mine brick and timer Wherever I go -my office, dining table or coffee shop. I wore my headphoneSelect the task and set the timer. 25 minutes For small tasks such as emails and captions 45 minutes For deeper tasks such as writing and design. This timer does not fall into perfectionism (this is the delay of disguise).
I also set up a firm Physical and digital boundary. My phone stays in a place that doesn’t reach, and I know that when the office distributor goes up, the family needs time. Not perfect. urgent It actually means.
At the end of the day, I ask myself. Do you need to push or call it at night? If you feel that you want to finish the list of things, you will prove that you work hard. If you finish the last task, you will be offered for 30 minutes if tomorrow’s momentum is helpful. There is no strict rules.
I made it impossible to finish my work. We do not do that anymore. One day I can give me what I need. Someday I’m just a mess. Life continues.
The power of discomfort
I know how difficult it is to be, so it’s no longer easy because it is no longer. I waited until the perfect condition was written. I easily follow it when it is presented.
But inconvenience always exists.
If the big project feels overwhelming (Hello, writing a book), I think about PHIL Stutz. Pearl Concepts -the program is to add one small behavior at a time. Some pearls are not good, but the point is to continue adding. It starts 80%of the battle and the resistance never disappears.
Over time, I was grateful for the pain of doing difficult things. It removed my self from productivity and simply showed meditative power. act. The pain of creation comes from the care of what we are afraid of.
We don’t have to go back to the allowance, but perhaps we’ve shaken too much in the other direction. I know what I did now I think of self -management as pride. How can I choose today to respect what I am most interested?
There will always be part of the process we hate, but the more we do, the better it is better to pass through. And by doing so, we brought us vividly to take care of it.
Kate is the founder of WIT & Delight. She is currently learning how to do tennis and forever Test the boundaries of creative muscles. Follow her in Instagram @Witingdelight_.
