If you have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD), are really busy, are somewhat overwhelmed, or are just trying to understand where the time goes, go read this posting on A Certain Lack of Focus. The writer, who is ADHD, is working on a novel, finishing a degree program, and considering the 400 other ideas that ramble through any ADHD brain in a given hour. Not only that, she's come up with a concrete method for staying on track.
The quick description: Start with a box with pull-out drawers. Label each drawer with the name of a project. The center drawer gets labeled TIME. Fill the Time drawer with buttons. Each time you spend an hour on a project, move a button from the Time box to the other project's box. At the end of a day (week, month, lifetime, depending on how big a box you started with, you'll have a visual record of how you spent your time.
Personally, I'd be better off if I also included drawers for the non-work functions, that whole sleepingeatingwalkinggoofingoff part of life that's supposed to balance out hyper-focused getting-stuff-done mode.
My description doesn't do her project justice. Allow yourself a look at her description and excellent photos.
1 comment:
Wow. What a post that is on the buttons.I too have ADHD and can't concentrate on anything and wrote about how frustrating I found it in a professional context a while back but have never figured out how to organise these myriad thoughts. I think I'm going to nick this idea!
Thanks for the follow on my REAL wall, and I look forward to perhaps receiving some REAL post in the mail soon ;-)
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