05 | 7 Tips to make a better to do list
ADHD reWired
Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP
4.8 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 80 HD Rewired episode number five. |
| 0:08.0 | This is the show designed to help those of us who have really good intentions and a slightly wandering attention. |
| 0:16.0 | Whether you have ADHD and you want to learn more about it or you are looking for ways to |
| 0:22.0 | organize your time, your things, |
| 0:24.7 | with the many details of life so you can get more done. |
| 0:28.2 | This show is for you. |
| 0:30.3 | My name is Eric Tibbers. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm a licensed clinical social worker, coach and consultant. |
| 0:36.0 | I am your host and I too have ADHD. |
| 0:40.0 | We know that starting can be the hardest part. |
| 0:44.0 | So what do you say? Let's get started. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome back. This is episode number five. In today's episode we are going to be talking about |
| 0:58.9 | tips to create a better to do list. So I'm going to go through and give you seven tips to |
| 1:07.3 | create a better to do list. This is an area that I find a lot of people that I work with with ADHD tend to struggle in and I think |
| 1:18.4 | there are a lot of reasons why and even if one of the suggestions that I give you here helps, that's going to get you on the right path to getting more done, to being more productive, and really trying to be more productive and really trying to be more effective in the things that you are trying to do. |
| 1:38.8 | So I'm going to start by talking about one of the first things that I learned, and this was in the book, |
| 1:47.6 | A D.D. friendly ways to organize your life. And from this book the suggestion is given to verb it and in case you don't |
| 1:59.4 | remember what a verb is from English it's an action word. So another way to think about this is make it an |
| 2:08.0 | action list. So for example if you have laundry on your to-do list, one thing you want to ask yourself is, |
| 2:18.6 | what about laundry? Is that pick up the laundry from a dry cleaner? Is that do the laundry? is that talk to your spouse about |
| 2:25.0 | talk to your spouse about doing the laundry is that talk to your spouse about doing the laundry |
| 2:29.0 | is that there are so many different parts about laundry. |
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