We should prioritize recognizing and respecting our physical and mental states, allowing ourselves time to recover and not constantly pushing ourselves.
When building systems, simplicity and effectiveness are key. Lowering the barrier to getting started can help ensure they work even on bad days.
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Recognizing and Respecting Physical and Mental States
We need to recognize and respect our physical and mental states. It's crucial that we're kind to ourselves and acknowledge that we're not always going to be at 100%. We don't always need to be pushing ourselves and it's important we're giving ourselves time to recover.
Building Simple and Effective Systems
When building systems in our lives, it's important to make them simple and effective. We want them to work even on our bad days, so we need to lower the barrier to getting started. Implementing checklists and creating designated places for things can help streamline our tasks and make our lives simpler.
Implementing Systems with ADHD
One effective way to implement systems with ADHD is through checklists and creating designated places for things. This helps us simplify tasks and lower the barrier to getting started. By making our systems adaptable and accommodating to our ADHD, we can ensure they work even on our bad days.
I’ve recently been thinking about task initiation a lot, but while working on the first draft of this episode, I realized that there were a few ideas that were important to explore first.
So in this episode, we’re going to be exploring some ideas of executive dysfunction, but then we’re also going to be getting into stuff surrounding our mental and physical health and then how we can work on our systems that help keep everything in order. Support me on Patreon Ask me a question on my Contact Page Find the show note at HackingYourADHD.com/145 This Episode's Top Tips
We need to recognize and respect our physical and mental states - it crucial that we’re kind to ourselves and acknowledge that we’re not always going to be at 100%. We don’t always need to pushing ourselves and it’s important to we’re giving ourselves time to recover.
It’s important that when we’re build the systems in our lives that we look at making them simple and effective. We want them to be able to work even on our bad days and that means we need to lower the barrier to getting started on them.
One great way that we can implement systems with our ADHD is through checklists and creating designated places for things to go. Again our systems are there to help make our life simpler and streamline the things we need to get done.
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