Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Starting is the hardest part

15 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston on why people with ADHD know what to do but can't start. Body doubling, working alongside someone else, actually works to get you using a planner and sticking with it.

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How can you get a planner and actually use it? Yeah, it has nothing to do with productivity. Most ADHD people already know what to do. We need a pretty planner like we need a hole in the head, but we want the pretty planner. But it's not because the planner is going to solve life for us, because it's not. We know it's not going to. We want the pretty planner though. But the hardest part of using that planner is always starting and then continuing to use it. That's why body doubling works so well for us, because another human being in the room changes everything. So buy that pretty planner, come join us in body doubling.