Step 10 to a BATDL
Celebrate. It is essential that you celebrate your victories. And every task that you cross off your BATDL is a victory. Unfortunately, I find that most of my clients attach what I call “Yeah, buts” to most of their successes.…
Matt Reid
Step Nine to a BATDL
CROSS ITEMS/TASKS OFF YOUR BADASS TO DO LIST! Crossing completed tasks off your BATDL in something like real time is practically and psychologically important. From the most literal and practical standpoint, crossing items off your BATDL means that YOU ARE…
Step Eight to a BATDL
EVERYTHING ON YOUR BADASS TO DO LIST MUST BE ACTIONABLE! Your BATDL is not a vision board. Your BATDL is not your five year plan. Your BATDL is not a compendium of all your hopes and dreams. Your BATDL is…
Life lesson about loss.
This is not specifically an ADHD topic. Though our particular wiring may make it more relevant. I don’t know. I’ve been a person with ADHD and mostly work ADHD people. And, this will be a one week hiatus from the…
Step Seven to your BATDL
CHUNKING: BREAKING TASKS DOWN INTO THEIR CONSTITUENT PIECES. The easiest way to explain this is to say that, big things are scary and small things aren’t. Buy a house is scary. Get prequalified, decide on towns to look in, figure…
Step Six to a BATDL
Before I start with today’s entry, I want to celebrate for a minute. I finally finished my book last week. 209 pages of really good stuff. When I say finished, I mean version 4.2 or something like that. A relatively…
Step Five to a BADASS To Do List
There will be a really long chapter in my book about prioritization of what goes on the list and what doesn’t. I can’t hope to capture all of that information in this format. So this will be more like a…
Step 4 to a Badass To Do List: Look at your list
In order for your BATDL to work for you, you need to look at it regularly. By regularly, I mean all day, everyday. A comprehensive list of all the tasks you need to complete is your best bet at living…
Step 3 on your way to a Badass To Do List: Go Digital
We live in a wonderful world of technology. Yes, it can be distracting for anyone, especially those of us with ADHD. But, if we can use technology as a tool, not a toy, it can help us manage our ADHD…
Step Two to a Badass To Do List
You have to have your BATDL with you all the time. The ADHD brain is a wild, exciting, and unpredictable thing. And, it is absolutely bananas living inside one. Even effectively medicated, I am hardly neurotypical. No ADHDer is. We…