r/adhdwomen • u/No_Scene_9476 r/BrainroticaADHD • Mar 05 '25
General Question/Discussion What’s a ‘life-changing’ productivity hack that just doesn’t work for ADHD?
Cold plunges, waking up at 5 AM, and a gratitude journal (I have 5 half-written notebooks, duh). There was a time I tried everything the media told me to do, failed, and then ate myself up for it.
Probably the worst hack for me is “eat the frog”, aka do the worst task first. I read in some ADHD psychiatrist’s book that ADHD brains actually like to ease into tasks. We need to interest our brain with something shiny and doable first, and only then, when we get momentum, can we work on something we don’t like.
What popular hack do you know? Which ones have you tried yourself?
Edited: by no means should this be taken as an ad, I'm a graphic designer, and while reading the handful of your thrilling comments I got inspired and sketched a daily planner tailored to our ADHD brains, I put it in my dropbox, together with a printable study system for ADHD: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/1ugjsht7xynbo70b4nnxo/ADhpRZsmhhXN8xj5GfFX9YE?rlkey=ljqjloanv3k1o3oanxzwsgyv3&dl=0
P.S. I'm searching for people to join me and be the first to test out my organizers, planners, systems, etc.; I am 5 years in deep psychodynamic therapy and have ADHD coach, so I feel I have some knowledge to share with our community and help us out by designing tools that really work.
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u/CyborgCoyote Mar 05 '25
Also, that assumes that I ever had an actual place for the thing.