Guides

I have owned approximately 47 planners, 12 wall calendars, and at least 6 different calendar apps. I have color-coded my life into oblivion. I’ve tried bullet journaling, time blocking, the Pomodoro technique layered on top of time blocking layered on top of a Google Calendar that looked like a bag of Skittles exploded on my screen. And I still missed my dentist appointment last Tuesday. If you have ADHD and you’ve ever stared at a beautifully organized calendar you spent three hours setting up — only to completely ignore it for the next two weeks — welcome. You’re in the right place. This is the guide I wish someone had handed me before I wasted another $34 on a planner I used for exactly four days. ...

I was 38 when I learned that not everyone experiences time as a flat, featureless void. That most people can feel an hour pass. That “five more minutes” actually means five minutes to them, not some random interval between 2 and 45 minutes. Time blindness is the ADHD symptom nobody warns you about. And it quietly wrecks more of your life than you’d think. What Time Blindness Actually Is Here’s the short version: your brain doesn’t have a reliable internal clock. Neurotypical people have this built-in sense of how long things take, how much time has passed, and when they need to leave for something. ADHD brains? Not so much. ...

I was on a Zoom call with a stranger in Portugal, and we hadn’t spoken in 45 minutes. I’d just finished my entire Q3 budget. The one I’d been avoiding for three weeks. That was my introduction to body doubling for ADHD, and I’ve been mildly obsessed with it ever since. What Is Body Doubling (and Why Does It Work for ADHD)? Body doubling is exactly what it sounds like. You work alongside another person. That’s it. They don’t help you. They don’t check your work. They’re just… there. ...