309 - How to Get Organized with ADHD - Your Questions Answered

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Lisawoodruff, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast, I want to answer questions that have been submitted about how to get organized with ADHD for both adults and children. I do start with a review of different executive functions. I want to be sure you hear me clearly - no one has perfect executive functioning. So, I want to share different ways you can adjust your mindset and behaviors to make progress on your organization journey.

Here is my best hint: consistency beats everything. Simple things done consistently over time will result in real, lasting changes in your life, home, and organization. If you fall off the wagon, or break your streak, just start again. Keep going.

I start with telling you about different medications, supplements, over the counter, and support techniques I use for myself and my children. One that was Joey’s favorites was Alpha Brain Supplements.

Listen in as I answer the following questions:

How do you get a routine going when you can’t stay consistent?
How do I not get so overwhelmed so that I do nothing?
How do I stay focused?
How do you overcome out of sight is out of mind?
I have a 14 year old girl who never sticks with a system. Everything is always disorganized!
How do you maintain everything in its place? That’s so boring!
How do you get started when you do not want to do it, and the project looks overwhelming?
I am consistently inconsistent. Help!
How would you organize a student with ADHD?
How do you stay on task?
Where do you start when getting organized?
Kids’ spaces are always disorganized. What should I do?
I’m overwhelmed because I have a very messy space. How do you move forward when your brain shuts down?
How do I learn to delegate?

I teach some different ways to deal with these issues and help you along your organizational journey!

I love to answer your questions. If you have another topic or questions you would like to have me answer, please email me - lisa [at] organize365 [dot] com.

Did you miss the Holiday Blitz? You are not too late! Head over to the Organize 365 Facebook group or IGTV to watch the videos from this week and download the printable workbook at organize365.com/blitz.

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0:00.0	This week's mailbag comes to us from Amy via Facebook.
0:06.0	Many miracles.
0:08.0	Week three of the kids program and my nine-year-old did a great job on her room three weeks in a row and her room has
0:16.0	stayed clean during the week because she knows she has to clean it every week.
0:21.0	It took our six-year-old two weeks the first time because she had
0:25.1	so much stuff. This week the nine-year-old did such a good job on hers and quickly
0:30.6	that I asked her to help her sister with hers.
0:34.0	They are working together, finding many lost things, and having fun.
0:39.0	And I am working on my Sunday basket that I do on Saturday while they clean their rums. Thank you, thank you,
0:47.0	Lisa Woodruff.
0:48.6	Do you have an organized 365 success story? We would love to hear about it. Please send us an email at
0:55.6	Lisa at organized 365.com and tell us how you have taken back your home, your
1:01.9	paper, and your life with Organized 365.
1:07.0	Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity expert, and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff.
1:21.0	This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection and create lasting functional
1:27.7	organizing in your home. I have so much to share with you so let's get started. Last week on the podcast I answered your questions and I talked
1:38.3	about how do you fit behavior change and getting organized into a schedule that literally has no time.
1:45.8	Like how do you fit it in and we unpacked that last week.
1:49.6	This week I have a lot of questions that have been submitted about how do you get organized with ADHD and to be honest it's overwhelming like
1:58.0	your situation is overwhelming the questions are overwhelming you'll hear over and over again the same exact themes repeated
2:04.7	by different people who either have ADHD, the majority have ADHD, or organizing children who have ADHD. And ADHD is a genetic condition so often many people in the
2:17.1	family or all the people in the family have ADHD. So I want to tell you a
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