How to Plan Your Day

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

While working on the last episode on laziness, one of the themes that came up was how we can become paralyzed when we don't know what our next step is - this can often be seen as laziness from other people or even ourselves. We know we should be doing something, we just don't know what. And this is where the importance of planning comes in.

Today we're going to focus on how to plan our day because it's easy to let our days get away from ourselves when we don't plan them. It feels like we shouldn't need to do our planning because that's what we were going to do anyway. But planning lets us look ahead and fix problems before they come up. It lets us choose what we want to do with our time instead of just always putting out fires.

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This Episode's Top Tips

When we don't know what to do next we can get paralyzed with indecision from a lack of executive function - we can help alleviate some of this paralysis through planning.
While doing our initial planning it's important that we also set aside time to regularly do our planning. If we don't build planning time into our schedule it's easy for us to skip doing it.
When planning it's important that we're not just scheduling things on our to-do lists but our breaks and things that bring us joy.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:08.4	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:11.6	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:18.2	While working on that last episode on laziness, one of the themes that I came up with was
0:22.8	how we can become paralyzed when we don't know what our next step is.
0:27.2	This can often be seen as laziness from other people or even ourselves because we just
0:31.6	don't know what to do next, and so we don't do anything.
0:34.8	We know we should be doing something.
0:36.6	We just don't know what.
0:38.4	And this is where the importance of planning comes in. Today we're going to focus on how to plan our
0:43.9	day because it's easy to let our days get away from ourselves when we don't plan them. It feels like
0:49.8	we shouldn't need to do planning because that's what we're going to do anyway. But planning
0:54.0	lets us look ahead and fix problems to do anyway. But planning lets us
0:54.5	look ahead and fix problems before they come up. It lets us choose what we want to do with our time
1:00.0	instead of always just putting out fires. If you'd like to follow along with the show notes page,
1:05.4	you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash daily planning.
1:14.5	But first, need help staying focused?
1:18.1	Adult study hall might be the answer for your wandering attention.
1:22.8	I've talked about the magic of body doubling and how it can do wonders for your productivity.
1:38.6	If you want something structured and with dedicated work sessions for things like working out, cleaning, and writing, let me direct you to ADHD rewired's Adult Study Hall, which you can check out at Hacking Your ADHD.com slash Study Hall. I use Adult Study Hall nearly every day to help keep me on task while I'm working on this podcast.
1:45.2	So you may see me there working on the next episode. That link again is hacking your ADHD.com slash study hall.
1:52.5	All right, keep on listening to find out how I plan my days.
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