Cheat, put down things that you have to do to survive and things you’ve already done, spatter them in and check them bitches off. For whatever reason it seems to work.
I feel that. Something that I found helpful was to pair up tasks. So like, if there was a task that I wanted to do that was causing me stress, but it was relatively low priority compared to stuff on my actual to-do list, I’d allow myself to do one of the important-to-me tasks for every actually-important task that I got done.
It didn’t help much with the problem of actually getting the tasks on my to-do lists done (though I think that battle is a never ending quest for anyone with ADHD), but it meant that on a day where I did get some stuff done, I got to chip away at the list of stuff that had been stressing me out as well as the big Tasks. Occasionally, I found that this helped me to build momentum
Write a stressor list instead, and see if you can break any of them down into smaller tasks to make progress on them?
Idk if that would work, or work for you specifically, but it might help to knock some of them out, even just a bit. As my friends and I always say “any progress is good progress.”
I would make to-do lists, but then I get overwhelmed at the things I have listed don’t seem to match up with the things I felt stressed about.
Cheat, put down things that you have to do to survive and things you’ve already done, spatter them in and check them bitches off. For whatever reason it seems to work.
I feel that. Something that I found helpful was to pair up tasks. So like, if there was a task that I wanted to do that was causing me stress, but it was relatively low priority compared to stuff on my actual to-do list, I’d allow myself to do one of the important-to-me tasks for every actually-important task that I got done.
It didn’t help much with the problem of actually getting the tasks on my to-do lists done (though I think that battle is a never ending quest for anyone with ADHD), but it meant that on a day where I did get some stuff done, I got to chip away at the list of stuff that had been stressing me out as well as the big Tasks. Occasionally, I found that this helped me to build momentum
Write a stressor list instead, and see if you can break any of them down into smaller tasks to make progress on them?
Idk if that would work, or work for you specifically, but it might help to knock some of them out, even just a bit. As my friends and I always say “any progress is good progress.”