Tips for staying on top of care tasks
For some people, planners are an excellent tool to create a schedule for themselves and get things done. For others, the planners they purchase just pile up, unused. Here are some strategies for those kinds of people:
Google Calendar: If you are someone who carries your phone around with you, Google Calendar is a great app for scheduling appointments and meetings. It allows you to program widgets to appear on your phone’s home screen to alert you the day before and the day of an appointment. You can also preset custom reminder alerts to act as prompts in the hours or minutes leading up to your appointment. Prompts and alerts are powerful tools to compensate for working memory deficits common to people with ADHD.
Opening and Closing Duties: These duties involve spending 20-30 minutes either in the beginning or end of the day to accomplish predetermined tasks, like preparing school lunches, to help for a smoother day. This is a powerful tool that can be woven into your morning or evening, but doesn’t necessitate that you schedule a specific block of time to complete it in.
Body Doubling: Use the presence of a family member or friend in person, on the phone, or virtually to act as a “body double” to help you stay focused and motivated to complete a specific task. The other person need not be doing the same task, you simply report to them that you plan on doing something, which gives you a level of accountability to actually get it done. A great time to do this is Sunday morning for meal planning or Thursday night for Shabbos prep but can vary depending on your weekly needs or the availability of a body double.
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