I made my comprehensive list with the joyous omnioutliner (see link above) and started into my day. I took breaks. I did my best to stick to my routine. It was working. I tackled some of my major things that had been bugging me for months and months. I just zero'd in and focused! I did it and I felt a major weight roll off of my shoulders. Being on decaf helps too. Also, I phoned a therapist and will be seeing him on Friday. So, the sleeves are rolled up and we are getting to work!
I may have already blogged this but this IS an ADHD blog... one of the things that has always been difficult for me is running errands. I start out, my list is probably in my notebook in my bag and so it is very inaccessible. I start out and before I know it I am getting lost, distracted, going into a store I had no intention of going into... and a simple hour long of running errands becomes the entire afternoon. So what I devised was what I am calling my “errand ticket”. I found a stack of day-glow green index cards. I take only one of the cards and in large lettering with a magic marker or bright colored pen (it's all about catching your attention) I write out WHERE I am going (in order) and what it is I am doing at each place. It works! I am out and off with my handy day-glow “ticket” and it becomes a game where I have to complete everything on the ticket. The rule is I can't return home without having done everything on it. It isn't like a task list that I would do some of now and complete later. It ALL has to be done.
It is very interesting to me how much making things like a game are so important to people with ADHD. It's hard to explain and speaking for myself, I just can't do things in a normal way. But then what IS normal anyway? I have heard it said that it doesn't matter HOW you do it, it's just the DOING it that is important. Perhaps in my growing up and my early adult years I always thought that there was some NORMAL way of doing things. This has a lot to do with heterosexism and that is another blog in itself...
I trust that my thoughts, my feelings are what they are SUPPOSED to be and that MY method of doing things is the RIGHT method for me.
*sigh*