![]() ![]() I find it’s easier for me if I can just pull up my Notes App, as I carry my phone from room to room. Some folks take the checklist they’ve made and print it out – so their phone isn’t in their hands as they get ready. Tracking how long it takes me to get ready helps combat that negative self-talk, and it also lets me know how I’m doing – routine wise!ĭetails on this book here! 6. I had a lot of negative self-talk around getting ready. Tracking my time helps me “gut check” my internal judgements. It looks organized in this post, but this was MORE than a bit messy as I tested things out! STEP #4: Time To Track Your TIME I literally tested doing things in different order, and then checked in with how I felt. I want to be clear that this happened organically via TESTING. Ok, so you can see above that I organized my morning into phases and rooms. I also go back to a room during different morning phases. I experimented and found this worked for me. You’ll also notice that I organize my ADHD morning routine by ROOM. I don’t put “Shower” or “Wash face.” I broke down literally every dang step! <3 ![]() ^^^ With these items, you’ll notice I’m SPECIFIC. Get out / dry and put washcloth in hamper.It doesn’t have to be LOGICAL, it just has to WORK! I didn’t rely on logic here, I sorted things by room, by desirability, habit stacking (more on that in a sec), etc. Something I realized while doing this is that my categories or sorting didn’t always make a lot of sense. Grouping like tasks with each other! I needed CATEGORIES. Ok, so looking at the list above, I soon realized I needed to organize my morning into segments or SECTIONS. Step #2: Sort the ADHD Morning Routine Checklist into CATEGORIES I know that I need to preserve that executive function for my business and tasks that grow my business ++ also in my creative work! I’m not sharing this to be overly dramatic, rather, I want you to know that if you feel a little bit insane about how YOUR morning goes, you’re not alone!īy the time I got *OUT* the door, I felt like I had lost a ton of executive function. To then being like “Oh shit I need to eat something!” I scrambled between rooms, walking around half dressed – toothbrush hanging out of my mouth – jumping from putting on facial moisturizer to choosing an outfit to realizing I forgot to floss to then remembering I needed to take my meds/vitamins. My ADHD mornings would’ve made for some COMEDIC TikTok content, LMAO. I kind of wish I had taken some time lapse videos of getting ready in the morning – I think it would’ve made for some COMEDIC TikTok content. I included that third step ^^^^, because I wanted to leave space for the possibility that maybe I do need 2.5 hours for my ADHD Morning Routine!īut I was pretty sure I wasn’t – here’s why: I spent every morning SCRAMBLING. ITERATE! Experiment with doing things at different times!.Time myself to see how long this stuff ACTUALLY takes.Think of this sorting as putting things in different categories Sort it // Organize it, grouping similar tasks together.Brain dump everything I want to do in the morning into my Notes App.Ok,now that you’ve got your handy dandy attitude ready, here are the steps I used to figure out my ADHD Morning Routine! ADHD Morning Routine – Figuring Out a Checklist I really think that you must engage in this process with an ATTITUDE of EXPERIMENTATION. Test things! Try doing things in a new way! Half the time, I build out a new little system so it feels NEW, and I can get a bit o’ serotonin! My ADHD brain LURVES new things. You want to treat yourself like your own little experiment. I did a LOT of testing and playing around with things, and I think that’s the key to start with here. I was losing my best “brain time” to flailing around in my bathroom in the AM. I felt like I had BURNED THROUGH a lot of my attention and focus my 10AM, just trying to get myself READY for the day.Īfter time tracking, I knew I needed to figure out a different approach to my morning routine. ![]()
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