re: Adults with ADHD... how do you manage?

At work: clear my desk of everything except the one thing I’m working on. Multitasking is a myth. Close my door and turn off my phone if necessary. I keep an ongoing list of current projects on a spreadsheet. Items in red font are things that are waiting on me to do something, and items in black font are items where I’m waiting on something from someone else in order to proceed. Utilize the calendar on your phone to remind you of important dates/appointments. If someone mentions something to me that I need to remember, I will stop them mid conversation while I put it into my calendar. Otherwise, I know that I will forget by the end of the conversation.

With life in general: Make a daily routine and stick with it. I’m naturally scatterbrained AF, so over the years I’ve learned that if I have a consistent routine, I’m more likely to not be all over the place. For each item that you don’t want to be constantly looking for (remote, etc.), have ONE PLACE and one place only where you put it down.

These are the things that work for me. I have no idea if that’s universal or just works for my particular brand of crazy.