Slowing down and finding a comfortable middle ground is crucial for individuals with ADHD.
Choosing the right tasks and prioritizing based on personal values can prevent burnout and ensure more precise use of time.
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Slowing down and finding a middle ground
One of the challenges of ADHD is feeling the need to do everything at once. However, this fast-paced approach can be exhausting and lead to missing important things. Slowing down and finding a comfortable middle ground is crucial. This means doing fewer things rather than just doing things slower. It is important to prioritize tasks and focus on what is truly important, not just what feels urgent. This may involve completing or offloading tasks that are mentally burdensome and not adding additional work. Slowing down allows for better planning and ensuring that the right things are being accomplished.
Choosing the right tasks and avoiding burnout
When doing less, it becomes essential to select the right tasks. It is easy to fall into the trap of doing all the things to avoid making choices. However, this approach often results in tasks falling through the cracks. Prioritizing tasks that make everything else easier, completing tasks without adding additional work, and focusing on tasks that provide a sense of fulfillment are key. It is important to remember that what is important is determined by personal values and interests. Prioritizing becomes easier when slowing down and being less reactionary, preventing burnout and allowing for more precise and enjoyable use of time.
Building belief in making time and avoiding rushing
Feeling the need to maintain momentum can lead to overexertion and burnout. However, slowing down and believing that time will be made for important but not urgent tasks can help avoid this trap. By giving ourselves enough time to focus on the task at hand and only doing what is truly necessary, we can prevent rushing and allow for mindful decision-making. Slowing down not only aids in doing less and selecting the right tasks, but it also allows for better time management and a more enjoyable use of time.
Hey team, this week we’re going to be talking about slowing down. One of the worst parts of ADHD is that we often feel like we have to do all of the things right now. That if we don’t jump from task to task to task, we’re just not going to get anything done. We live a life where we only have two modes, doing nothing and super speed. It’s exhausting, and we often find ourselves missing important things because we can’t keep up that pace.
In today’s episode, we’re going to be talking about how we can work on slowing down and trying to find a more comfortable middle ground between those two modes.
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When we’re talking about slowing down, there are three areas that we need to focus on - time management, task management, and activation energy.
While the simplest solution seems to just do fewer things, when we’re choosing to do less, it becomes more important for us to be selecting the right tasks.
We can also feel the need to maintain momentum in our day, which can lead us to overdo it and burn ourselves out. If we can build the belief in ourselves that we will, in fact, make time for all those important but not urgent tasks, it can help us slow down and do only what we really need to do.
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