Always Grasing The Gears

Always tinkering away at a productivity system was not productive for me. You can only grease the wheels to the machine to crank out more widgets before you realize your covered in it. Sticking to a system with ADHD is hard. You forget one piece to your task management steps and it starts to fall apart. Then you fall behind. Then comes the self-loathing that you can't stick to it. So you try something new or try and reboot the old tool set you were working with.

The longest running system I used was the bullet journal. It was working fine, at least until I lost the journal on a road trip. I dumped all my tasks and ideas into that book. I struggled to try and remember all the important things. Ever since then I had to move to digital with backups on back ups. Talk about PTSD.

What's is always funny to me that every time I read a new productivity book it made me feel worse. Then I would be hopeful and try a new system. They always seemed more complicated than the last. But no matter how hard I tired to Get Things Done or eat all the frogs. It never dawned on me that these were systems that majority of them were designed for neurotypicals. That divergent thinkers barely remember to bush there teeth every day let alone a weekly review meeting.

These day's I do my best with to-do lists. But those tasks end up on a 3x5 card with sharpie stuck to the side of my monitor. So it's extra clear what my goals are for today.

Grateful now after learning on the different systems I'd try. But happy most days that I'm able to move the gears forward.