Danielle Ralston covers time management strategies for people with ADHD: time blocking, breaking projects into small steps, and fighting the urge to chase new ideas. She explains how to estimate how long tasks actually take and promises a follow-up session on Thursday.
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And then time, managing our time. We're terrible at managing our time. Like, I'm terrible at managing my time, which is why I do things like map all of my time out. I time block my time and I make sure that I can see everything that I need to see. We're really bad at managing our time. Deadlines, get right. What are the current tasks that I should be working on? Again, shiny object syndrome. I'm over here and I'm not doing the thing I should be doing, but what was the thing I should be doing? And how do I do the thing? And how much time is that thing gonna take? No, that's gonna take me 12 hours. I can't do that today. When in all reality it could only take you 5 minutes. Or maybe if you broke it up into tiny steps, every tiny step takes you 5 minutes. The whole project might take you 2 weeks, but if you break it up into tiny steps, you can be working towards that end goal. It's that time management piece of it is insane sometimes for us, and it's really, really hard to manage that and do all of the things. But you can, I promise. Thursday I'm gonna teach you how.