My Daily Work Routine and 4 Productivity Tools That Help Me Get Things Done | Wit & Delight

Time management and organization have never come to me naturally. When my second child arrived, when life became uncontrollable, I turned to the experts. I never thought about listening to my rhythm and body. I thought productivity was something to learn and not something to understand.

Then I hit a wall.

I was tired of feeling this way and stopped fighting my nature. I stopped receiving productivity advice from people who don’t have ADHD.

For years I was trying to distort myself by someone I wasn’t. Someone who can follow a system designed for a brain that didn’t work like me. Why did you believe you could manage your time the same way they did?

The shift was subtle, but it changed everything. I’m stagnant, I’m no longer careful, I’m moving forward with purpose. I know I’ll get stuck again, but I know this too.

What am I sharing today I’ll do it Work – How to get things done without draining yourself in the process. Because burnout is not possible when we oppose who we are. That’s a guarantee.

Notes on productivity, rest and value

Productivity notes.

I define productivity as doing what I said. For myself, for others – it makes sense to my life. I tried to heal my burnout by “resting” for two years, but each day made me feel sick. After all, rest is more than just tranquility. Some kind of rest is active and I’m learning to recover that Everything has been changed.

Notes on rest.

Different types of rest follow different types of productivity. Knowing what you need means knowing the limitations. When I tried to function like someone without ADHD, I pushed me further from those signals. The ADHD brain requires a variety of rest types: emotional, mental, creative, physical and passive.

I watch TV and don’t charge. I recharge with reading, cooking, long walks and pilates practice. To outsiders, that may seem like I’m doing it all the time, but this kind of movement recovers me. Sometimes it’s self-care to organize your junk drawers. Otherwise, it is a warning sign. TV helps when I’m mentally drained. When I’m emotionally overwhelmed, it makes me feel stuck. Learning the difference has changed everything.

Value notes.

We are taught to measure our value by what we produce. Part of my midlife journey rejects it, unravels my value from my output and focuses on it Making More than that measurement. If you’re at that thickness, this post may not be necessary today.

Your value is not your job. But it is an expression of making – creativity, movement, shaping something from everything – you. It gives life. It’s building confidence. It’s something that can pull you out of the spiral before it settles down. When I began to respect for creating my inner drive, productivity stopped me from becoming what I chased. It was a natural result of finding my flow. Not momentum, but momentum. It’s not a creation or extraction. And it changed everything.

When I began to respect for creating my inner drive, productivity stopped me from becoming what I chased. It was a natural result of finding my flow. Not momentum, but momentum. It’s not a creation or extraction. And it changed everything.

Living with mental and physical limitations

I am a working mother with a deep appreciation for her hobbies, her social life, and her good night sleep and daily physical exercise. I don’t want to give it. So I accept that I don’t have long, uninterrupted stretches for a deep focused job, like I used to.

I also accept that I don’t know if I need it or not rest or Momentum. The only way to know is to adjust it to my body, which requires emotional regulation.

My ability to access my most “productive” self is limited and inconsistent. Knowing that I don’t always make the right choices, I can find grace rather than embarrassing. I meant something about me as a person that I couldn’t get things done. I won’t do that anymore. One day I can give myself what I need. One day, I’m just ruined. life goes on.

Achieving optimal productivity every day is unrealistic. When I do yoga, my body can feel completely different each day. That’s what the brain does too. There’s a time Work and life feel like a difficult battle. I find switching tasks more difficult than it should be. And then there are seasons when efficiency is not included in the cards.

I didn’t have time to focus so I had to hack the system. By doing that I learned three important principles that help me get things done with my nerve brain. Simplicity, urgency, momentum.

That’s how they shape my daily life.

Three principles I follow to improve productivity

Principle 1: Simplicity

It maintains a simple system for capturing ideas, documenting tasks and organizing all of the above. The key is that the process is easy to repeat and everything is easily accessible. It’s not complicated at all. This is the most important thing.

I use it Notes app and Reminder app Not just my phone concept To save ideas and tasks. I will never be a completely digital person, so I write things down on paper. The brain processes handwriting that is completely different from typing. Apart from concepts, my phone app is very simple and easy to use.

I use the bucket system for digital files (and physical objects in my home). How to maintain your home while being owned. Use digital buckets to organize files on computers in these categories: to-do lists, writing, business projects, content creation, family, learning, finance, mental health, cooking, travel, physical health, clients .

Principle 2: Emergency

We are deeply familiar with procrastination and know that it is a troublesome habit, as we get things done when we feel the pressure of time. But I discovered that when I put off everything and hurry up and get everything done quickly, I don’t have time to practice deep work and come up with all the ideas, so I find my work lacking I did. To break the cycle of procrastination, you need to create your own urgency. This principle works through the timer I use (more on this below).

Principle 3: Momentum

No matter what action, I have known for a long time that the most difficult part has begun, so it’s very important to generate momentum. Momentum principles keep us moving because transitions are extremely difficult for people with ADHD.

To generate momentum for each day, I implemented a morning routine that was ranked basic and prioritized the most challenging first. I stand up, brew coffee, and I work and work quickly. This creates a natural influx of dopamine that can carry me throughout the day. I used to meditate and stretch before going to work, and now I do it after I’ve finished something that puts a lot of focus. When I use this momentum, I am ready to tackle anything with amazing things.

Four productivity tools I swear

For the same reason, I’m a fan of using pens and paper, but I like physical tools that I don’t have on my phone. These are the four I always have on my desk.

1. Get on track and keep your planner: This planner will help you plan weekly details.

2. timer: This is because we practice Pomodoro techniques and create them by simulating urgency and constraints. I have three of them.

3. Bricks: Brickblock is selecting apps on your mobile phone. Having a physical tool that restricts my digital access is very important to me. Brick wins with its simplicity.

4. Apple headphones: Lock in and tune. White noise, sound bowl, EDM, rap. It doesn’t matter what it is, unless you hear what’s going on around me.

It also relies on some choice resources and people who want productivity advice.

My work routine

On Sunday night or Monday morning, I throw everything inside myself Get on track and keep your planner– Tasks, ideas and notes collected throughout the week with the Notes and Reminders app. Next, use Eisenhower Matrix To organize what is urgent, what can wait, what can be delegated, and what can be noise. I hate planning, but I’ve learned that pushing this step makes everything else easier.

When it’s time to work, I’ll take me Bricks and timer Wherever I go, whether it’s my office, dining table, or coffee shop. I wore my own Headphonesselect the task and set the timer. 25 min For small tasks such as emails and captions, 45 minutes For deep work like writing and design. This timer keeps me from falling into perfectionism (this is just a procrastination of disguise).

I also set it up well Physical and digital boundaries. My phone is out of reach, my text is muted and if my office dividers are up, my family knows I need uninterrupted time It’s there. It’s not perfect – the kid is still walking – but it helps everyone get more mindful about what emergency It actually has meaning.

At the end of the day, I ask myself: Should I call it all night or? If you feel like you’ve finished your to-do list, and it turns out you’ve “worked hard” and you go to sleep. I will give you another 30 minutes if the momentum of tomorrow is helpful after closing the last task. There are no strict rules.

I meant something about me as a person that I couldn’t get things done. I won’t do that anymore. One day I can give myself what I need. One day, I’m just ruined. life goes on.

The power of discomfort

I know how difficult it is for simple things anymore, so I can no longer take it for granted. I used to wait for the perfect conditions to be written. I’m writing things down right now in the middle of the grocery store. When it appears, I will follow you easily.

But the discomfort is always there.

When a big project feels overwhelming (hello, I’m writing a book), I think about Phil Stottz Pearl string Concept – Progress just adds one small action at a time. Some pearls aren’t very good, but the point is to keep adding them. Starting is 80% of the fight and resistance never fades away.

Over time I’ve become more grateful for the pain of doing difficult things. It stripped my ego from productivity and simply showed me meditative power I’m doing it. The pain of creation is too compassionate because we fear. That’s beautiful.

We don’t need to boss babe how to go back to hustle culture, but maybe we’ve rocked too far in other directions. I know what I did. Now I consider self-care as self-esteem: How do I make today’s choices that respect what I care most about?

There are always some of the processes we dislike, but the more we do them, the better we push through. And in doing so, we bring to life what we care deeply about.