My Daily Work Routine and 4 Productivity Tools That Help Me Get Things Done | Wit & Delight

Time management and organization never came to me. When life became Onmanager – a constant since my second child arrived – I looked at the experts. Not eleven I thought I would listen to my own rhythm and body. Productivity, I thought, was not to understand the master, not to understand.

I hit a wall.

I was tired of feeling so, so I stopped fighting against my own nature. I stopped following productivity advice from people who don’t have ADHD.

For years I had tried to pamper myself into Sub -Subsone, I was not – structured, discipline and neatly organized. A person who followed Coulled a system design for a brain that didn’t work like mine. Why did I ever believe that I could manage my time in the same way as the did?

The shift was subtle but everything changed. I didn’t get stuck, no longer pretend, with goal move forward. I know I get stuck again, but I also know this: I have finished chasing solutions that were never a manant to work for me.

Today I share something do Work – how I get things done without tapping myself in the process. Almost what we work against who we are, burn -out is not a possibility. It is a guarantee.

Comments about productivity, peace and dignity

A comment about productivity.

I define productivity if I said, I would do – for myself, for others – in a way that makes sense for my life. I tried to cure Burn -Out for two years by ‘resting’, just to feel worse at every day that passes by. It appears that peace is not just silence. Subs Rests are active and learn to restore That Everything changed.

A comment about peace.

Different types of rest follow different types of productivity. Knowing what you need means that you know your limits. Trying to function as Subone without ADHD only pushed me further from those signals. ADHD – brain need different types of rest – emotional, mental, creative, physical, passive.

I don’t charge by watching TV. I charge by reading, cooking, taking long walks and practicing Pilates. For outsiders it may seem like I’m always going, but this kind of movement recovers me. Subtimes, organizing a rommella drawer is self -care. Oher Times, it’s a warning sign. When I am mentally empty, TV helps. When I am emotionally overwhelmed, I feel stuck. Learning the difference changed EvenThing.

A comment about dignity.

We are taught to measure our value by what we produce. Part of my midlife trip has rejected that, my value from my output to the fact that I focused on Making instead of To measure. If you have that fat, this message may not be what you need today.

Your value is not your work. But create -create, move, immerse them -is an expression of You. It’s lives. It is trust building. It is the thing that you can pull out of a spiral before it holds. When I started honoring my inner drive to create, productive stopped that I had pursued. It is the natural result of finding my current. Momentum, not exhaustion. Creation, no extraction. And that changed everything.

When I started honoring my inner drive to create, productive stopped that I had pursued. It is the natural result of finding my current. Momentum, not exhaustion. Creation, no extraction. And that changed everything.

Live with disabilities, both mentally and physically

I am a working mother with hobbies, a social life and a deep appreciation for a good night’s sleep and daily physical movement. I don’t want to give that up. So I accept that I don’t have long, an interrupted pieces for deep focus work like before.

I also have access to that summary, I don’t know if I need Rest Or momentum. The only way to know is by tuning to my body, and those demand emotional regulation, which is also difficult to open when you are conquered.

My ability to gain access to my most “productive” self is limited and not existing. Knowing that I am not always going to make the right choice of the choice, I find grace instead of falling into a shame spiral. I used to make my inability to get things done, a person meant a person about me. We don’t do that anymore. Subdays I can give myself what I need. Subdays I’m just messing around. Life goes on.

Reaching optimum productivity every day is unrealistic. When I do yoga, my body can feel completely different from one on the next day. Brain is also like that. There are times when Feeling work and life like a tough struggle. Switching tasks feels more difficult than should be. And there are seasons where efficiently simply is not in the cards – accepting the key to finding way through.

Because I don’t have hours to relieve in the focus, I had to hack my system. In addition, I learned three essential principles that help me get things done with a neurodivergent brain: Simplicity, urgency and momentum.

Here is how they form my daily life.

3 principles that I follow for improved “productivity”

Principle 1: Simplicity

I Maininin simple systems for capturing ideas, documenting tasks and organizing all the above. The key is that the processes are easy to repeat and that everything is easily accessible – Notening is always too complicated. This is first.

I use the App notes And Memories app On my phone and Concept To store ideas and tasks. I also write down things on paper because I will never be a completely digital person. The brain processes handwriting completely different from typing. Assoid from Notie, the apps on my phone are Vray easy and easy to use.

I use the Bucket system for digital files. How to keep your house while drowning. I use digital buckets to organize files on my computer in the Sele categories: Task lists, writing, business projects, content creation, family, our home, learning, finances, mental health, cooking, traveling, physical health and customers.

Principle 2: Urgency

Those of us who are deeply familiar with the transfer know that it is a nasty inhabiting who “works” because we get things done, we feel the pressure of the time. However, I discovered that when I postpone and almost get done every day, I feel that my work is lacouse school and have no time to practice deep work and get all my ideas out. To break through the cycle of statements, I have to create my own urgency. This principle plays in the game via the timer that I use (more about this below).

Principle 3: Momentum

With every action I have known for a long time that the most difficult part is working, so creating Momentum is so crucial. Transitions Because they are so difficult for people with ADHD, the principle of Momentum keeps us going.

To create my daily momentum, I have implemented morning routine that wall is to the basis and prioritizing the most challenging thing. I get up, make coffee and start working immediately. This creates a natural inflow of dopamine that can carry me through the day. I meditated and stretched before I went to work, and now I do it after I finished something that costs a lot of focus. I feel great and ready to tackle something when I use this momentum as this.

4 productivity tools that I am

For the same reasons I am a fan of using pen and paper, I love physical tools that are not on my phone. Here are the four that I always have at my desk.

1. Stay on the track planner: This planner helps me to plan the details of every week.

2. Timer: This is for practicing the Pomodoro technique and for simulating and creating urgency and limitations. I have three.

3. The brick: The brick blocks select apps on my phone for a fixed amount of time. Having a physical tool to limit my digital access varies important for me. Brick wins for simplicity.

4. Apple headphones: To lock and coordinate. White noise, noise bowls, EDM, rap. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as I can kon king around me.

I also turn a few selected sources and people for advice on productivity:

My work routine

On Sunday evening or Monday morning I dump everything in my Stay on the track planner– Tasks, ideas and notes that I have collected all week in my notes and memories apps. Then I use the Eisenhower Matrix To sort what is urgent, what can wait, what can be delivered and what is just noise. I hate planning, but I have learned that penetrating this step makes everything easier.

When it’s time to work, I’ll take my Brick And Timer Wherever I go – whether it’s my office, the dining table or a coffee shop. I have my HeadphoneChoose the task and set a timer: 25 minutes For small tasks such as E -mails and captions, 45 minutes For deeper work such as writing and design. The timer prevents me from falling into perfectionism (which is just disguised delay).

I also determined Physical and digital boundaries. My phone stays out of reach, my text messages are dampening, and when my office distributor is over, my family knows that I need a interrupted time. It is not perfect -children still come in -but it helps all all the meaningful about what Urgently Actually means.

At the end of the day I wonder: Do I have to push this or call it a night? If I feel like finishing my task list, I will “work hard and Grough,” I go to bed. If packing a final task helps the momentum of tomorrow, I will give myself another 30 minutes. No rules rules – just coordinate.

I used to make my inability to get things done, a person meant a person about me. We don’t do that anymore. Subdays I can give myself what I need. Subdays I’m just messing around. Life goes on.

The power of discomfort

I no longer take convenience for granted because I know how difficult simple things can be. I used to wait until the Perfecties write -now I note things in the middle of a supermarket. I follow convenience when it presents itself.

But there is always discomfort.

When large projects feel overwhelming (hello, write a book), I think of Phil Stutz’s Pearl series Concept – Progres is Jus who adds one small action at the same time. Sub -parades are not great, but it is about keeping adding them. Getting started is 80% of the battle and the resistance never disappears completely.

Over time I ate to appreciate the pain of doing hard things. It has stripped my ego of productivity and has shown me the meditative power of simple doing. The pain of creating is by giving so much care that we are afraid – and that is wonderful.

We do not have to return to the printing breeding, but maybe we waved too far in the other direction. I know I did that. Now I consider self -care as a self -respect: How can I give spurs today who give what I care about?

There will always be parts of the process that we hate, but the more we do them, the better we get to push through. And we bring what we give deep to life.