Energy Management: Mental Energy

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today we're going to be looking at ways that we can work on cutting down distractions and staying focused. We'll also be looking at ways that we can better schedule our time to focus on when our brain is going to be working best and we'll also be looking at better ways to end our workday.

Find the show note at HackingYourADHD.com/mentalenergy

This Episode's Top Tips

Mental energy is about our ability to focus and keep our focus. To effectively do this we need to stop trying to multitask and reduce the number of distractions we have around us. This means limiting notifications and creating a work environment where we won't be easily interrupted.
We can create smarter time blocks using our ultradian rhythms to guide us - breaking our scheduling into these 90-120 minute cycles allows us to focus on working when we've got the most energy and taking breaks when we're going to need them the most.
Schedule your most important tasks for early in the day. By completing what's most important first you'll never find yourself at the end of the day having missed those tasks. You can decide if it's best to eat the frog with this task or to ease into it.
End your workday with a shutdown routine to signal to your brain that you are really done with work. By only working while you are at work you'll make better use of your time and you'll allow yourself real time to relax and recover while you are at home.

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0:33.3	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:39.3	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:42.3	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:49.3	We're going to be continuing our series on energy management today with an episode focusing on mental energy.
0:55.0	I know I'm ready to start moving things with my brain.
0:57.0	Oh wait, that's a different kind of mental energy.
1:00.0	Sorry to say, I'm not going to be covering anything on psionics into this episode,
1:04.0	but we are still going to be focused on your brain.
1:06.0	Today, we're going to be looking at ways that we can work on cutting down distractions and staying focused. We'll also be looking at ways that we can better schedule our time to focus on when our brain is going to be working best,
1:16.6	and we'll also be looking at better ways to end our workday.
1:19.6	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at Hacking Your ADHD.com
1:25.6	slash mental energy. Alright, keep on listening to find out what you need to
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