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…
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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…
How to “interview” your new psychiatrist.
picking up where I left off last week… I think interviewing someone who is a expert in something in which you are not an expert is in large part about making sure you’re b******* detector is on full blast. I’m…
How to choose an ADHD prescriber.
I’ve been thinking about this topic for quite some time. I told the client a month and a half ago or so that I would post a blog entry about what to ask a prospective doctor. Then I sat down…
ADHD Moms… and Dads!
A quick post on mom’s and dad’s. I am a dad. I am married to a mom. I have both a dad and a mom. I live in a society where some people enjoy “traditional gender roles.” Some people are…
Is it ADHD, Anxiety, or Depression?
I hope this post will synthesize the ideas that I’ve discussed in the last several weeks. Because productivity is largely about identifying priorities, executing those priorities, recognizing urgency, but making time for things that aren’t necessarily urgent so they don’t…
Some thoughts on ADHD and anxiety
Anxiety is a crazy thing. I find it fascinating how it interacts with ADHD. In just the right amount, anxiety can compensate for some aspects of ADHD. But it’s a delicate dance trying to maintain just that right amount. Not…
How to define important?
As promised last week, let’s think about what’s important. As we remember back to the concept of tasks that are some variety of urgent and some variety of important we have to understand what those two concepts mean. I think…
Prioritization isn’t a real thing!?
I started to write an entry on how ADHD and anxiety intermingle. But there were issues raised that I need to address before I dive into that topic. First, we need to talk about prioritization. Prioritization is an aspect of…
ADHD Life Hacks, pt. 8: In your earbuds
I haven’t posted my favorite podcasts lately. So here are some thought and hopefully some wisdom. I don’t think we understand why, completely. But it is pretty clear that, if we choose the right media, we are more productive and…
ADHD Life Hacks pt. 6: Interval Timer
The aforementioned interval timer is a great tool. But it depends on how you use it. As its essence, it is an external reminder to be mindful of the passage of time. Whether you are distracted or hyper focused, the…
ADHD Life Hacks, pt. 5: “It’s about time.”
Unless you are an astrophysicist, I think we can agree that time is a constant and represents an objective reality. But it certainly doesn’t feel that way when you are living inside an ADHD brain. We experience time as very……