Managing a to-do list is a complex task. In order to make the list, you need to remember or notice what needs to be done. Then you need to remember to do it. Ideally, you also prioritize your tasks — you figure out whether one task needs to precede another, like grocery shopping before cooking, [...]
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So, I had a doctor’s appointment today. Since I always wind up being late getting to this particular doctor, I frequently mark my calendar so that the appointment reads as 15 minutes earlier than it actually is. So today, I was eating my lunch, minding my own business, when I looked at the clock and [...] If you’ve ever wondered why the ADD adult in your life can’t seem to get things done in a timely manner, perhaps the following tale will shed some light. The moral, for those of you who want the Cliff’s Notes version, is that sometimes it pays NOT to optimize. I’ve been hanging out on the Women with ADHD Ning, and recently one of the members mentioned that she’d never really fit in with “the girls”. Several more of members chimed in about how they’d never felt “feminine”. It seems that a lot of women with ADD are just no good with the girly stuff. It’s [...] I’ve been back from my holiday trip for two weeks now, and since then I’ve managed to be on time exactly once. Being on time has always been a struggle for me, and it’s an area where I’ve made great strides in recent years. I’m still not perfect, but I used to be late for absolutely [...] It’s a truth of time management that some tasks need to be delegated, and that the best tasks to delegate are those that somebody else can do better. For adults with ADD, cleaning and housekeeping are among those tasks. Every book I’ve ever read about ADHD has said that if you can afford to hire [...] Last week I wrote about perfectionism and ADD. I had spent 20 hours writing a lens for a Squidoo contest, even though I deliberately picked a topic that I thought would be easy and quick. Well, my perfectionism was not in vain, because I won the contest! Yay! You can check out my lens here. This weekend I wrote a Squidoo lens about tabby cats. Why tabby cats? Well, a Squidoo community that I’m a part of has been having weekly contests, and last week’s was to write a lens for the “animals and nature” category. I figured this would be good for me; all of my lenses to date have been [...] When I was a sophomore in high school, we used to joke about our American History teacher’s compulsive habits. If you moved the stapler, the three hole punch, or the pencil sharpener even slightly out of alignment, he would immediately notice and put them back. For awhile we tried moving them [...] Last week I wrote about making up a gmail calendar schedule, but as you’ve probably already learned, it isn’t enough to just get yourself a gmail account and open up the calendar feature. You have to create a schedule, and then you have to notate it in a way that makes sense to you. For example, [...] |
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