ADHD & The Pile System | Do You Do This? | Business Coach Val Nichols

23 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Val Nichols explains the Pile Organization System, where people with ADHD arrange similar items into visible stacks to keep them from being forgotten. Out of sight means out of mind for ADHD brains, so piles on a couch or desk serve as constant visual reminders for short-term projects.

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Do you have organized piles of things where you just know exactly where every single thing is? It might not make sense to anyone else. What this is is an organizational system that is actually very common for people with ADHD called the Pile Organization System or Organized Piles. With ADHD specifically, it's out of sight, out of mind to extreme. So what happens is we end up doing these piles of similar things or these organized piles I had everything spread out on my couch today, and I had these organized stacks of the different topics going to bring over for the 15 days of May, which I do every single year. So make sure you sign up for that. I had organized piles because I have to visually see every single thing that I am working on. Otherwise, it'll go right out the window. So for me, this is actually a system that works not for the long term, but as I was organizing my thoughts today, I had everything spread out. On my couch, organized piles. So let me know, do you guys use the pile system? Do you have organized piles of things sitting on your desk, your bathroom, in your kitchen? Spill the tea, I want to know. I love you. And don't forget to follow me for more tips and tricks on how to organize your business in a way that works with your ADHD brain and not against it.