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I think the root issue is awareness—many people still don’t understand what executive dysfunction is, let alone how it affects performance. We need more education in the workplace around neurodiversity, so support isn’t just about tools, but actual empathy and flexibility.
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Definitely not just awareness, or lack of knowledge. There are values driven so deep into the average American (protestant work ethic, etc) that they will roundly reject any of the info we would want to pass on.
Part of it comes from community/tradition, and part of it is from the steady supply of corporate-sponsored think pieces and other propaganda.
Two list method. This works best when my brain is cluttered with small tasks. … One list is a brain dump of all the things. List two is three things. You can pick high priority or low time commitment or whatever — but only three. Do all of them (usually by end of day but you can pick a different time frame).
I often find my struggle is that I am overwhelmed at the number of tasks and I get paralysis. Having just three things to do to make a day “successful” frequently leads to my accomplishing much more because it got me moving and then when I have the momentum I can check off a lot of other items.
I'm too embarrassed to say how low I have to stoop to cater to my brain haha, but it's more important to figure out what your brain needs, than it is to chastise it for not functioning how you want
Hmm, two-fold thought here.
1) perhaps ADD energy motivated you to build that then you found that applying it was a different story. Less is more, I’ve found.
Organization complexity creates less organization.
It’s on the individual to create focus and understand priorities.
2) is everything a priority?
If you look at the mountain of work, perhaps not all of it is necessary.
Beyond ADHD, understating what needs to happen versus what could happen is a great lesson
I’ve found that Successful people know how their brains operate and create patterns to solve problems and get things done. They also dismiss unnecessary tasks easily.
Good luck out there
I have found that using ChatGPT to organize my day helps. I told it I have ADHD and have trouble staying on top of things. I tell it everything I have to do, including all my meetings for the day. Then I have it structure my day. I tell it what is hard for me to complete and why. Then it helps me identify one or two things to complete for the day, even if one of those things is sending an important email. I also tell it to give me positive inspiration. Then I tell it to summarize it so I can put the list in OneNote.
When I do this, I am usually talking to it and not typing on my phone. That ensures I do it. It now takes me about 5 to 10 minutes every morning. My boss even noticed I was more productive.
Yeah I could have told you that Trello thing was going to fail before you even started.
Sounds like you did it to make yourself believe that you would be more productive and hyper focused on setting it up for dopamine.
Think about how you would organize something for a child. Labels, simple, can be done when you’re half asleep. Like putting your keys in the same bowl every day. Everything needs a bowl, and the shelf of bowls needs labels. Getting beyond that is where we f*ck up and create systems that are not sustainable.
Agree with everyone else's comments. No easy answer or solution here.
1) I think it's both the case that people in the corporate world don't understand ADHD and executive dysfunction, and it's also the case that many in the corporate world would have no sympathy or leeway for us even if they did understand it. Sadly.
2) Us with ADHD need to be careful with making complex plans and organizational systems. The way dopamine works is that it is released both in anticipation of something (to motivate you to do it) and released as a reward after doing it (to reinforce the behavior). Many people mistakenly think it's only the reward. Sometimes we feel that dopamine rush from planning something, making a goal to do something, or setting up a system to help us do something else. But then by the time it comes to actually execute on the goal or use the organizational system to do the actually important task, our motivation has totally fizzled out. I think it's important to use organizational systems that work just well enough, not things that are super complicated or use up your limited motivation, But are lightweight and flexible and work for you. I myself sometimes switch between organizational systems when I feel they're not working well, but I try to stick to lightweight systems that don't require a surge of motivation to set up in the first place (e.g. to-do list app on my phone, or to-do list on physical sticky notes, or sticky note kanban board).
3) Prioritization is super important. Find a way that works for you. Maybe it's doing the two list method like someone mentioned. Maybe it's having a backlog and a priority laying on the sticky note kanban board. Maybe it's something else. But you got to be able to prioritize because there's going to be some days where we genuinely only have the motivation and capacity to get a few things done.
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