How to make ADHD less like herding cats

ADHD can be like herding a bunch of cats in your own brain- it's sometimes chaotic, unpredictable, and often feels like you're hanging from the curtain rail by your claws.

Running a business or working with ADHD can be even harder, but there are lots of ways that you can make things more manageable.

HIRE a V’yAy’!

Working with a VA can be a lifesaver and not too expensive. Plus, all the time they save can actually put you ahead financially! Why procrastinate over a boring task for 3 hours when a VA could do it 30 mins!?

Some specialist companies work with business owners with ADHD and neurodiversity, and they're trained in all of our wonderful quirks and specialist superpowers. Working with a VA means you can get rid of all of the dull minutiae so you can focus on the latest hyperfocus or creative project.

If you're diagnosed, you could be eligible for an Access to Work Grant worth up to £65,000! This grant includes money for all sorts of things to make your life easier, and a VA is one of those things.

Check out Clevertouch.

Set Phone Reminders

We've all seen the memes saying ‘why don't you just get a planner’? 🙄 Yes I have 20; thanks Sandra, and they're all gathering dust filled with a graveyard of genius business ideas that will never see the light of day. What works for me are phone alarms and reminders, and shit loads of them.

I set alarms for any important tasks, or anything really that I need to remember. While planners for key dates don’t work for me, they do for lists, but we can all get pulled onto other things, so the reminders are for items that MUST get done that day.

Time Blocking

Time blocking is one of the best ways to get shit done. Assigning specific tasks to specific blocks of time helps to eliminate distractions and keeps you from being dragged away by shiny objects, notifications, and inboxes. And please, for the love of god, turn off your phone notifications.

Two hour stints usually work really well, or less, but just make sure you sit down, turn everything else off and focus on that one thing for the allocated time.

Get listicle

Where notebooks do come in handy is for lists, lots of lovely lists. Everyone is different here, but I find a written list way easier to check off than a digital one because, let's face it, once that tab is closed, its' gone forever.

Just a few ways to make life with ADHD that little bit smoother. 

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