Set aside time today to pay bills. If your ADHD makes paying bills a chore you would prefer to avoid, scheduling some time to get started can help. If this sounds overwhelming to you, think about how spending 30 minutes would work for you. Some time might be just what you need to get started.
Laura Rolands, ADHD Coach
Plan Meals to Get Focused
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To help you stay focused this week, spend some time TODAY planning your menu and getting groceries. This can help reduce the distraction of menu planning and potentially help you eat healthier! How do you like to plan your meals? Share your ideas here!
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Take Action to Get Focused
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Do you have a project to tackle this weekend? Does it seem overwhelming? While I do recommend that you plan your projects, I also recognize that you can sometimes get stuck in the planning stage. If you feel stuck in the planning stage, decide to take action today. Pick one thing you can do to move forward and set the timer to start.
Good luck with your project and let us know how it goes!
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Prioritize to Get Focused
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Prioritizing can help you get focused.
To Do List
Think about your To Do list. Even if you have not written one in a while, think about the last time you wrote one. Chances are you have too much on that list. It seems as though our personal and professional to do lists can be never ending. This, as you know, can be overwhelming. To help you focus today, identify the priorities on your list. What are the top 3 MUST DO items on the list for today? Focus on them to increase your chances of accomplishing them.
Goals
On a broader scale, the same concept applies to our goals. There may be many on our list. We can help ourselves to focus if we prioritize our goals by importance and/or timing. In the online coaching program I am developing, I have included a matrix that includes low and high priority indicators. In addition, I have broken timing into three categories:
- complete within the next 2 months
- complete within 3 – 6 months
- completion will be more than 6 months away
By using this matrix or similar ones, you can visualize your priorities by level and timing.
How do you prioritize?
Share your ideas here to help your fellow readers. Thanks!
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Brainstorming ADHD Challenges
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Strengths
Last week, I talked about how to Use Your Strengths to Manage ADHD. If you have not read that article yet, please read it before reading this one. Keep your strengths in mind while doing the sometimes difficult work of considering all of your challenges.
Challenges
Identifying your ADHD challenges can help you create the awareness that you need to set effective goals that will help you move forward. A few things probably come right to mind, and I would encourage you to explore your challenges more to gain additional insight. What we think of on the surface may not give us the insight we seek. Brainstorming can be a productive way to do the exploring. A key to brainstorming and exploring your challenges will be to not stop and evaluate or judge your challenges. Grab a piece of paper and brainstorm your answers to the questions below.
- In what areas of your life do you have challenges that are related to ADHD? Be specific.
- What can you improve on related to your ADHD or related challenges?
- What challenges are the highest priority for you?
- Think about how these challenges are related to ADHD and Executive Function. I recommend the sites of Dr. Russell Barkley and Dr. Thomas E. Brown for more research here. How can you reframe your challenges to tie them to the executive functions discussed on these sites?
Review your challenges. What insight does this brainstorming list provide you? How can you use it to prioritize your goals? Share your feedback and questions here.