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Hacking Your ADHD

Building Your Touchstones | Listener Q&A

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8702 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

 All right everyone, we've got another listener Q&A episode coming your way today with questions looking at ways we can declutter our phones, re-establishing our routines when life is in flux, and how to recover after taking on a heavier workload.

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This Episode’s Top Tips

  1. A lot of our digital clutter comes from stuff that we just build up over time - one of the easiest ways to reclaim some of that space is to go through and look for those Keepers, Maybes, and Rejects. It's easy to get rid of the keepers in the first step and then go through and decide on the maybes after we've cleared some stuff out.
  2. Once we've clear out that space it's also important to back our data up - and the name of the game while backing up that data is redundancy. I use Google's Cloud service for my first level and then also have an external hard drive that I keep more of my files.
  3. Routines can be really helpful for creating structure for our ADHD brains and so when our structure needs to change for things like school or work we need to look for touchstones in our schedule that we can keep the same and then build out our schedule from there.
  4. Remember that when we're trying to do new things that we're not always going to be 100% successful at implementing our strategies. That doesn't mean that we failed, it's often actually a sign that we're heading off in the right direction. We want to think about iteration and what went well and what didn't and then try and build on that stuff that did work for us.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:35.3

Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.

0:41.3

I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.

0:44.6

On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.

0:51.0

We've got another listener Q&A episode coming your way,

0:55.5

and today we're going to have questions like looking at ways we can declutter our phone, how we can reestablish our routines, and also

1:00.8

what to do when we're taking on a heavier workload, and how we can equitably manage our time.

1:05.3

If you'd like to leave your own question for a show like this, you can just go to Hacking Your ADHD.com slash contact.

1:12.4

And if you'd like the show notes for this episode, you can also find those at Hacking Your

1:16.2

ADHD.com slash Building Touchstones.

1:19.8

And before we get started, I just want to make sure and remind you all to go check out

1:23.6

ADHD Diversified.

1:25.4

This is the newest podcast to join the ADHD ReWired Podcast Network,

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