ADHD Tasks Piling Up? Do This First 👀
Hey there,
Do you ever wish you could “just stick to things”?
Consistently answer your emails.
Follow up on your work projects.
Stay on track with your exercise. 🫠
Maybe it works for a while, but something always happens. You fall off, tasks start piling up, and getting back on feels impossibly hard…
Me too! That is, until I found a way to recover much faster.
So in today’s edition of ✨Organized Chaos ✨, I’ll show you:
- How to get unstuck without waiting for motivation
- What to do when you can’t do the thing, AND…
- The simple question that actually makes it easier, every time!
But, what really happens in that moment when you “fall off”?
#1 How to get unstuck without waiting for motivation
Usually, something’s changed. You have less energy, time, motivation, or capacity. So you can’t do the thing at the moment…
But when you avoid it, something bad happens:
The cost of getting back to it starts growing. 📈
The unanswered email becomes the awkwardly late email.
The unfinished project – remembering all of the things you left off.
Exercise means a new gym card, rebooking your trainer, soreness.
Then it can take a long time until you have the resources to do that again…
That’s how you fall off. There’s no way around that high hurdle. ⚠️
But there is a way to reduce it!
Just ask yourself “What can I do now to stop this from getting much harder?”
Email: Reply “I’m not sure now, but I’ll check and get back to you.”
Project: Decide “I’ll stop here today. Next steps: check X, send Y.”
Exercise: Try “I’ll just do a minute this week so I’ll stay in the habit.”
Don’t do the whole thing. Do just enough now so you don’t get stuck later. ⚠️
But then… what do you do with the things left unfinished?
#2 What to do when you can’t do the thing
Because “I’ll come back to this later!” works great… unless your brain turns it to “So I’ll just replay this in my mind and feel a bit guilty until then.”
That still keeps the costs up. Maybe not externally, but mentally, for you.
Don’t carry that around in your head.
- Set yourself a reminder
- Write out the next steps
- Leave just enough context so you can easily pick it back up again!
Basically, park it. 🚗
Leave it somewhere you can easily find and drive right away.
And if you know what to do… but still don’t want to do it?
#3 The simple question that actually makes it easier, every time!
One of my favourite books, Atlas Shrugged, says:
“Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”⚠️
For example:
- You think, “I should be able to do this project from home.”
- But every time you try, you get distracted and hardly make progress.
- This feels like a contradiction, “I want to do it. I know how. So why can’t I?”
-> Check your premises
Maybe the wrong premise is:
“Home is a good environment for this task.”
And if you change that premise to:
“This is an office/coworking/body doubling task.
The contradiction disappears. ✅
Examine your task from a few different sides.
How do you assume you should do it?
- A certain time?
- Place?
- Format?
- Support?
👉🏻 Can you change one of these to make it feel easier?
Take that one dreaded email:
- Can you set answering days so you don’t have to check every day? (time)
- Can you answer from the office when you’re feeling more focused? (place)
- Can you dictate your response as a voice note? (format)
- Can you do it faster with body doubling support? (support)
Just keep changing one small thing at a time, and watch it get easier and easier to “just stick to it” every time! ✅
…And if the thing you want to change is trying alone?
✨ That’s what our Body Doubling sessions are for! Bring the thing you’ve been avoiding, and we’ll do it together. ✨
Love,
Antonia
