Be More Functional
Variety of tips and tricks that help my ADHD brain keep my life more or less together, and might help you, too.
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Free virtual co-working sessions for people struggling to focus
Body-doubling is the ADHD strategy in which you basically work alongside someone who is also busy working (not talking). For some reason it makes a huge difference in our ability to focus.
Why you feel worse after a nap and more tired on holiday
When you’re overworked and overstressed, you’re full of adrenaline and cortisol, and that’s masking your fatigue like a bunch of black coffee would.
Messy spot in your house? Put it on a tray.
Junk, like cats, likes a demarcated space. I bet you could just group everything together on an A4 piece of paper and it would look neater.
That time I wrote down every single object I own
Last weekend I did a big declutter and then did the mildly psychopathic thing of writing down everything I own in a spreadsheet.
Rec for fiction writers who are struggling to actually write
The Couch to 80k 8-week writing bootcamp is a free 20-minute podcast with, and this is the bit that makes it marvellous, timed writing sessions.
"Should I go to that thing or stay home?"
There are three basic phases of life, and we’re constantly cycling between them: Pushing Yourself, Overdoing It, and Resting.
Which side will your margin of error fall on?
If your plan is based around perfect judgement and no mistakes ever, that is a terrible plan.
Why trouble comes in bunches
So a thing I do pretty often is catch the wrong tram and not realise until I've gone way past the point where the two tramlines diverge, and then have to walk a bunch of blocks across to where my proper tram is. And I swear this always
Why big temperature changes mess you up: science
If it's hot one day and cold the next, or vice versa, you might find yourself more sluggish, or stressed, or just generally jagged up.