Too Much

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Over the last few weeks, I have hit a number of points where it all just felt like too much - now there are a number of things that have contributed to this, but one of the keys always behind when I get overwhelmed is doing too much. This is despite the fact that even when I have too much on my plate it always feels like I should be doing more. That I could squeeze in just a few more things and then… well then I’d probably also still be trying to add more things to do.

In today’s episode, we’re going to be exploring why doing more isn’t usually the best thing for us to pursue and how doing less can actually help us actually accomplish the things we really want to do.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Prioritizing with ADHD can be difficult and that is only made more difficult as we add more and more to what we’re doing. When we’re able to pare down the amount we’re doing we can then better prioritize all the things that actually need to get done.
We don’t have to do everything that ends up on our to-do lists - it’s okay to cross things out even if we haven’t completed them.
We only have so much cognitive capacity to focus on any given thing and the more open loops we the more we are going to be drawing on that cognitive capacity. Our best bet for dealing with open loops is to work on simply opening fewer of them by taking less on.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:09.5	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:16.7	Over the last few weeks, I have hit a number of points where it's just all felt like too much.
0:22.6	Now, there are a number of reasons that have contributed to this, but one of the keys always behind when I get overwhelmed is that I'm doing too much.
0:32.3	This is despite the fact that even when I have too much on my plate, it always feels like I should be doing more,
0:38.8	that I could just squeeze in a few more things and then, well, then I'd probably still try
0:43.8	to add a few more things after that as well. In today's episode, we're going to be exploring
0:49.2	why doing more isn't usually the best thing for us, and how doing less can actually help us accomplish
0:56.1	more of the things that we actually want to do.
0:59.2	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your
1:04.3	ADHD.com slash one-one-one.
1:08.9	All right, keep on listening to find out why doing less can help you do more.
1:21.5	More isn't always more. Or at least it isn't always what we should be striving for.
1:27.8	It's easy to look at our schedules and what we're planning on doing and see the need to do more.
1:33.2	It's easy to look back on what we've accomplished in a week and wish that we've done more.
1:38.4	But just doing more isn't the panacea that we make it out to be.
1:42.7	A big part of the problem with ADHD is that it can
1:45.8	often be incredibly hard for us to prioritize. For me, this feels like a consequence of time blindness.
1:53.0	When I don't really understand how long something is going to take, it's going to give me a
1:57.2	really hard time giving it the weight it deserves. And with my classic trait of
2:01.8	having trouble finishing things, there are always going to be more things that need to get done.
2:08.1	This leads me to having a plethora of things that I can work on at any given time, and that
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