Do What Works For YOUR ADHD!

Knowing what tools and practices work well with your ADHD is the best way to set yourself up for success.

“You need to find what works for you.”

Have you ever been told this? I’m sure I have probably said the same thing in these blogs and on Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast in the past.

While this can be great advice, it helps to have something to start trying to find out if it works.

ADHD makes it difficult to get started, so I wanted to share some tried and true strategies that have been known to work well for other ADHDers.

Start with some of these strategies to help ‘find what works for you”:

• Body doubling

  • Having a body double means having another person in the room you are working in. Sometimes, just having another person in the room with you can motivate you to get things done.

  • Don’t have another person around to be your body double? Not a problem! Virtual study halls have become very popular! Check out how you can join my weekly study halls for guaranteed body doubles here!

• Accountability partner

  • Similar to a body double, having an accountability partner means staying connected with someone who will help hold you to your goals and check in with you regularly.

• Timers and Clocks

  • Keeping a clock or timer within eyesight at all times will help you beat that time blindness.

• Random Check-in

  • Set up check-ins with yourself throughout the day and ask yourself if what you’re working on is the right thing at the right time.

  • Many have found hourly alarms to be most helpful.

• Working in sprints

  • Setting a small amount of time to work, broken up with breaks can make getting started that much easier.

  • Many ADHDers enjoy using the Pomodoro method for work sprints.

  • Try gamifying your sprints by rolling dice to determine the number of minutes for working and breaks.

• Time yourself

  • Time blindness can make you think tasks take longer to complete than they actually do.

  • Time yourself completing a task and keep a record of the time as a reminder the next time you find yourself wanting to procrastinate because you think it’ll take too long.

I hope these suggestions will give you a good place to get started.
Thanks for your time and attention!

-Nikki