Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

Grab the Declutter Guide ... FREE! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/adhd-declutter and get a head start on your toughest spaces today!--- It’s Q & A day! From hyperfocus to distraction, information clutter to productivity at work, we power through your queries with our thoughts, strategies, and recommendations. Thanks to everyone who wrote in with your organizing ADHD questions. This week we’re taking on: What's the best body double strategy? How do you decide where and how to house things? I don't have enough time to devote hours to organizing! How do I set up routines that endure in the long term? How do I nurture myself without going too far into hyperfocus? I stay home while the family is at work/school all day. How do I not resent their messes when they leave? Overwhelmed at work: how do I manage account management demands? Information overload! Should I stress about disorganized journals and digital clutter? How do I help my high school son remember and submit homework on time without organizing on his behalf? How do I help my preteen with organizing fundamentals and managing/estimating time? Links & Notes Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson & Tonianne DeMaria Barry Trello (00:00) - Welcome! (03:26) - What's the best body double strategy? (04:44) - How do you decide where and how to house things? (06:13) - I don't have enough time to devote hours to organizing! (08:16) - How do I set up routines that endure in the long term? (10:30) - How do I nurture myself without going too far into hyperfocus? (13:00) - I stay home while the family is at work/school all day. How do I not resent their messes when they leave? (17:06) - Overwhelmed at work: how do I manage account management demands? (24:11) - Information overload! Should I stress about disorganized journals and digital clutter? (28:04) - How do I help my high school son remember and submit homework on time without organizing on his behalf? (37:01) - How do I help my preteen with organizing fundamentals and managing/estimating time? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Grab the Declutter Guide ... FREE! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/adhd-declutter and get a head start on your toughest spaces today!--- If you share space with another person, then organizing is a team sport. From defining the purpose of shared spaces to keeping one another accountable, you can’t build new habits if you don’t have the support of those who spend their time in your proximity. This week on the show, we’re talking all about how to engage your family in supporting organizing efforts. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Grab the Declutter Guide ... FREE! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/adhd-declutter and get a head start on your toughest spaces today!--- We all go into our organizing projects with the best of intentions. Did you just open your closet to a pile of junk falling on your head? Did you turn on the light to your attic and finally register the disaster of boxes? Did you fall into the stacks of mail and bills on the floor of your living room? Wherever you are in your home, making the connection that you have a space to be organized, and then taking action to organize it, is a noble effort! But taking that first step without thinking through the consequences could make the organizing job worse for you. This week on the show, we’re talking about the three reasons your organizing efforts may be losing focus and offering you a way to think about your projects before you start that may just save you time and frustration in the long run! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Grab the Declutter Guide ... FREE! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/adhd-declutter and get a head start on your toughest spaces today!--- It’s true, if you’re struggling with getting organized and you’re living with ADHD, there’s likely a key challenge holding you back. It lurks there, in the back of your mind, an invisible standard to which you will never live up. We’re taking on this subconscious demon on the show today, kicking off a series on ADHD organizing principles that will help you get on track, stay on track, and recover when you fall down.  Links & Notes Avoid These Five Organizing Mistakes Plus 5 Organizing Worksheets ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Grab the Declutter Guide ... FREE! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/adhd-declutter and get a head start on your toughest spaces today!--- We all have repetition in our lives. But until you stop and think about all the things that repeat around you, you may not know what you’re missing. So, it’s through the lens of task lists that we’re going to talk about some of the options for using technology — the simple and the advanced — to build our checklists quickly and efficiently and ensure we’re not missing a single step in the otherwise invisible processes we take on each day. Links & Notes The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande Text — The TXT format on Wikipedia TaskPaper from Hog Bay Software Markdown: “Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).” Markdown is practically a prereq for TaskPaper only because the philosophy of using certain indicators in a text file and allowing a client application to act on those characters in a specified fashion is the same in both. Markdown is stupendously useful in my work. If you write a lot, it’s worth taking a look. Hit me up with Markdown questions and we might do an episode on it soon! 2Do Workflow: Powerful automation made simple. Background and download for CGPGrey’s sample Workflow Template for 2Do Automation in OmniFocus 2.14 (now in TestFlight) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Grab the Declutter Guide ... FREE! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/adhd-declutter and get a head start on your toughest spaces today!--- We’ve had some great questions and feedback on our last few episodes around ideal schedules. This week, we’re taking this concept a bit further. How do you take a new strategy and implement it to turn it into a lifestyle? How do you handle less desirable tasks — gating and focusing even on the stuff you really don’t want to do? How do you decide what to work on first? These are deceptively simple questions with answers that we often make more complicated than we need. We’ll do our best to untangle them on the show this week! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Grab the Declutter Guide ... FREE! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/adhd-declutter and get a head start on your toughest spaces today!--- Today on the show we’re digging into just one aspect of the book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown: Priority. This is the act that puts constraints around our ADHD, allowing us to see the forest for the trees, but to exercise our focus on a tree, too. We talk about the power of focus and clarity, how living in accordance with a clear priority strategy can lead to greater productivity and balance, and how developing your ideal weekly schedule can help you truly visualize the hidden opportunities that exist in your own personal sea of time. Links & Notes Essentialism: The Disciplines Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Grab the Declutter Guide ... FREE! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/adhd-declutter and get a head start on your toughest spaces today!--- As it turns out, productivity and procrastination are two sides of the same coin. Depending on the day, your toss might yield unparalleled output, focus, and attention. Then again, it could yield a rousing binge session of Top Chef. Because of the inherent unpredictability of this productivity/procrastination calculation, it becomes so important that you build in the systems and gates that allow you to focus when you really need to focus, and the freedom to let go and relax your brain when you’re finished. This week on The ADHD Podcast, we’re talking about the systems and processes that might help you beat procrastination, from focus sprints to setting a real, rational priority for your time. Join us! Links & Notes Google Ngram Viewer: priorities ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Grab the Declutter Guide ... FREE! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/adhd-declutter and get a head start on your toughest spaces today!--- If you’re a regular listener of this show, you know we’re a big fan of habits. Habits help the ADHD world go ‘round! This week on the show we’re going to dig into the underlying engine that supports building and sustaining new habits: Reminders! Without a reminder system you can trust, building habits will be nothing more than an exercise in frustration. So settle in and get ready — we’re talking about visual cues, technology, buzzers and bings this week, in addition to a few great book recommendations and follow-up! Links & Notes Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results By Stephen Guise Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown The ADHD Podcast 242: Building Mini Habits for Self-care ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Grab the Declutter Guide ... FREE! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/adhd-declutter and get a head start on your toughest spaces today!--- This week on the show, we’re talking all about positive energy. Energy is contagious. Whether you’re inheriting the mood of your partner or children when they wake up sour in the morning or catching the waves of joy from a colleague celebrating a grand accomplishment, if left unchecked, we are at the mercy of the moods and intentions of those around us. But we have a choice! We can take an active role in cultivating positive energy around us to deal with difficult situations with confidence and strength. Links & Notes 244: Having Fun with Kirsten Milliken 240: Practicing Mindfulness for your ADHD with Casey Dixon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★