Time Management

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. ...

This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Most planners are designed for people who already have their life together. The ones who wake up at 5 AM, journal for 20 minutes, and actually use their color-coded system past January 14th. That’s not me. And if you’re here searching for the best planner for ADHD, it’s probably not you either. I spent the last several months testing 10 different planning systems. Physical notebooks, apps, and hybrid setups. All tested through the lens of an ADHD brain. Executive function challenges, time blindness, the dopamine-seeking chaos of hyperfocus followed by “wait, what was I doing?” ...