DESCRIPTION:
Learn strategies to stop wasting time.
RESOURCES:
Blog:
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Using the Urgent – Important Matrix
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These Are the 4 Steps ADHD Adults Need to Take to Reduce Distractions Now
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How To Set Boundaries Around Time When You Have ADHD
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4 Ways to Boost Your Energy When You Have ADHD
TRANSCRIPT:
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Are you ready to stop wasting time? You’ve tuned into Scattered Focused Done Re-Imagining Productivity with ADHD, A podcast for ADHD adults like you who want to learn how to adopt the best strategies, tools, and skills to get your essential work done in a way that works with the way your brain is wired. I’m Marla Cummins and I’m glad you’re joining me today on this journey to re-Imagining Productivity with ADHD, so you can get what is important to you done without trying to do it like everyone else.
Once you’ve decided what’s essential to you and you have a task list that reflects this, it’s time to execute. And to do this, you’ll need to use ADHD time management tactics to decide when to work on your various tasks. Because just having a list of essential tasks is not a guarantee that you’ll follow through. Especially since as it’s common for ADHD adults, you may often default to your sense of urgency to decide what to work on at any given moment.
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If this is the case for you now, even with a well curated task list, you’ll likely continue to feel stressed and overwhelmed unless you break this urgency cycle. To do this, you’ll need to upgrade your skills, be with the discomfort of operating differently, and trust that slowing down will help you do more of what is important to you.
Are you ready to learn how to use your time to be productive and feel more grounded? The first step to break free of over-relying on your sense of urgency for motivation is to learn which low return activities are contributing to your urgency cycle and which activities can help you escape this cycle by using the urgent important matrix. If you’re not sure how you are using your time now, rather than guessing, keep a log for three days. Once you know how you spend your time, you may choose to use it differently.
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For example, you may want to learn how to minimize your distractions. You may also decide to upgrade your skills to better manage interruptions, set boundaries, and say no graciously to better manage your activities. Then you’ll have more time to incorporate the activities that will help you do more of what’s important to you. No doubt fitting these activities into your schedule will be hard, but with patience and self-compassion, you can do it. Of course, you don’t always have complete control over your schedule. There will be times when some last minute emergencies, time-driven deadlines, requests from your boss, et cetera, you can’t anticipate. So you’ll want to leave enough buffer in your schedule to account for these.
But you also have some urgency in minimizing your urgency activities as some of these are the result of not doing enough activities that are important and not urgent,
