After abandoning more than 21 business projects at various levels, I realised that I procrastinate or drop the project if I don't have the clarity... the full picture. With that realisation, now I work on an idea by asking questions like....do I have all the skills required? If not, can I get someone with the skills? And I ask myself a few more questions. If I don't get clear answers, I don't waste my time on the idea.
Thank you for adding me, I am a 64 year old female with ADHD and CPTSD. Recently diagnosed after years of struggling with my mental health issues. I am now retired by doing that I began to struggle even more. I am grateful to have found your group and look forward to learning new and successful strategies for dealing with my newly found diagnosis..🎉😊
“I did not do what I said I was going to do” - me, every single day. Also me: make lots of “to-do” lists in my “planner-but-rarely-doer” but either forget to look at them or they just don’t inspire me. 🤷🏻♀️
I loved the story in the first half of this video, you were right to follow the tension of your inner critic and go ahead with becoming an older TH-camr anyways because the world needs experienced people to share their wisdom
I love how you view your procrastination... I am the same way. If I'm really into something I will definitely start working on it. Although I'm having a hard time with motivation because I already work a 40 hour work week in my day job. Then I have a relationship and I have classes twice a week for my Yoga business. It leaves little energy/motivation for me to do more.
I’m an ADHD coach as well, & I love that you listened to your instincts!! I do the same thing. When I am dragging on something, it usually means I need to get quiet, & diagnose if it lines up, or chunk it down more.
thank you for being here !!! your youtube videos are filled with so much compassion - i am 20 and still figuring out a diagnosis, and identifying procrastinating within my uni schedule.
Using a tool like Notion to plan and organize your tasks can be an effective way to manage your time and stay on top of your responsibilities. Thank you for sharing!💖💖💖💖💖💖
I never would have guessed you are 52, you look amazing! This spoke to me so much as a 48 year old, mom, wife, content creator with limited energy because of rheumatoid arthritis and a brain that runs a mile a minute even though my body won’t keep up. It’s coincidental because I am rather new to using Notion for all my life planning and I just set my goals in a gallery view and my weekly calendar view below it in just about the exact same format (my weekly calendar shows the name of the task, status, and energy blocks it will take instead of time. I love seeing it that way, so I don’t overload my days and then it’s easy to add in appointments and what I actually get done and move undone tasks to a future period.
@@rhodagunn5075 pretty much, I was budgeting 16 energy blocks a day, a normal persons 8 hours of work a day with half hour increments. But something like vacuuming might only take 30 minutes but it really zaps more like an hour worth of my energy so I’d budget 2 energy blocks for it on a sunny day when I’m feeling good but more like 3 on a rainy day when my body fights me. Once the 16 blocks were filled I wouldn’t write in any more tasks to do and I highlight the tasks when it’s done so my eye is drawn to what I accomplished.
Love your inspirations and seriously thank you❤ and cannot wait to use this education, my adhd brain is so just fog & thank you :) your videos give me so much info and inspiration and ideas on how to make things work for my brain.
I absolutely love your videos. You make me feel more understood and even more able to enjoy this life. I am slowly getting my different health issues and symptoms figured out. All the appointments with my full time job and other small timeslots I will be keeping track of (meditation time, social time, cooking, reading) and I get lost with several calendars all with different appointments and obligations. I have needed something like notion for a long time. Having another ADHD-er explain it to me is making me imagine pixie dust is falling at both pur places 😅💚 💛 Thank you Chickie 🩷🩵🌞
I really like your tshirts 😀 Please keep doing these videos and I am inspired by how you present your help with this information and your honesty is impeccable 🎉
Love your content Caren! Too bad about the group coaching thing. I was thinking how a entrepreneur group all using Notion and working together to achieve a goal would be so fun and supportive. Ha - your Notion dashboard is starting to look a lot like mine! Yep I need those goal visuals in my face daily to remind me why I’m doing this. I also have a couple powerful quotes/tips on there as a means of self coaching.
It is called a neologism. When we need a new word that doesn't exist. It is one of my favorite non-words now. You never know, it could become part of the English lexicon! 😎
Two words--Exasperated, and exacerbated. Respectfully, as an ADHD person, I can understand how you would mix these words. (you have done it other videos which is why I am pointing this out). exasperated: Greatly annoyed; made furious. Made worse or more intense. exacerbate: to make more severe. @ 7:20... [The template?] "it was exasperated by the template that I used." I believe that you were exasperated, and the template exacerbated your exasperation with trying to follow a system that is not suited to ADHD. The template itself was not exasperated. Perhaps more plainly, I doubt the template was exasperated. You were understandably exasperated (frustrated), the template made the problem worse (exacerbated.)
After abandoning more than 21 business projects at various levels, I realised that I procrastinate or drop the project if I don't have the clarity... the full picture. With that realisation, now I work on an idea by asking questions like....do I have all the skills required? If not, can I get someone with the skills? And I ask myself a few more questions. If I don't get clear answers, I don't waste my time on the idea.
Thank you for adding me, I am a 64 year old female with ADHD and CPTSD. Recently diagnosed after years of struggling with my mental health issues. I am now retired by doing that I began to struggle even more. I am grateful to have found your group and look forward to learning new and successful strategies for dealing with my newly found diagnosis..🎉😊
“I did not do what I said I was going to do” - me, every single day.
Also me: make lots of “to-do” lists in my “planner-but-rarely-doer” but either forget to look at them or they just don’t inspire me. 🤷🏻♀️
Just discovered your channel! I'm 49 and was diagnosed with ADHD a month ago. "Re-sparkle-ize" is possibly my new favorite word. Love it!!!
I loved the story in the first half of this video, you were right to follow the tension of your inner critic and go ahead with becoming an older TH-camr anyways because the world needs experienced people to share their wisdom
I love how you view your procrastination... I am the same way. If I'm really into something I will definitely start working on it. Although I'm having a hard time with motivation because I already work a 40 hour work week in my day job. Then I have a relationship and I have classes twice a week for my Yoga business.
It leaves little energy/motivation for me to do more.
I’m an ADHD coach as well, & I love that you listened to your instincts!! I do the same thing. When I am dragging on something, it usually means I need to get quiet, & diagnose if it lines up, or chunk it down more.
thank you for being here !!! your youtube videos are filled with so much compassion - i am 20 and still figuring out a diagnosis, and identifying procrastinating within my uni schedule.
Using a tool like Notion to plan and organize your tasks can be an effective way to manage your time and stay on top of your responsibilities. Thank you for sharing!💖💖💖💖💖💖
I never would have guessed you are 52, you look amazing! This spoke to me so much as a 48 year old, mom, wife, content creator with limited energy because of rheumatoid arthritis and a brain that runs a mile a minute even though my body won’t keep up. It’s coincidental because I am rather new to using Notion for all my life planning and I just set my goals in a gallery view and my weekly calendar view below it in just about the exact same format (my weekly calendar shows the name of the task, status, and energy blocks it will take instead of time. I love seeing it that way, so I don’t overload my days and then it’s easy to add in appointments and what I actually get done and move undone tasks to a future period.
thank you for the kind words, Tanya!
How do you display an "energy block" ? Or is it the same as a length of time, you just aren't calling it "time" ?
@@rhodagunn5075 pretty much, I was budgeting 16 energy blocks a day, a normal persons 8 hours of work a day with half hour increments. But something like vacuuming might only take 30 minutes but it really zaps more like an hour worth of my energy so I’d budget 2 energy blocks for it on a sunny day when I’m feeling good but more like 3 on a rainy day when my body fights me. Once the 16 blocks were filled I wouldn’t write in any more tasks to do and I highlight the tasks when it’s done so my eye is drawn to what I accomplished.
I love that idea to have a time duration property in the task. I’m adding that. I also need to add that week view. That’s what I’ve been needing.
I'm using the pomodoro technique for that, boils down to the same thing though.
Love your inspirations and seriously thank you❤ and cannot wait to use this education, my adhd brain is so just fog & thank you :) your videos give me so much info and inspiration and ideas on how to make things work for my brain.
Thank you so much, Alli! You're welcome.
I absolutely love your videos. You make me feel more understood and even more able to enjoy this life. I am slowly getting my different health issues and symptoms figured out. All the appointments with my full time job and other small timeslots I will be keeping track of (meditation time, social time, cooking, reading) and I get lost with several calendars all with different appointments and obligations. I have needed something like notion for a long time. Having another ADHD-er explain it to me is making me imagine pixie dust is falling at both pur places 😅💚 💛 Thank you Chickie 🩷🩵🌞
OMG! So happy I have just found you. Thank you for sharing this. I am purchasing your template RIGHT NOW!!! 😊 P.S. Your hair is awesome😎
aw, thanks! The hair isn't real tho :)
your so inspiring and supportive and just thank you ❤
Thank YOU! :)
I really like your tshirts 😀 Please keep doing these videos and I am inspired by how you present your help with this information and your honesty is impeccable 🎉
Thanks for sharing your story. It helped me reframe my current mindset a bit. Much gratitude🙏💜
Love your content Caren! Too bad about the group coaching thing. I was thinking how a entrepreneur group all using Notion and working together to achieve a goal would be so fun and supportive.
Ha - your Notion dashboard is starting to look a lot like mine! Yep I need those goal visuals in my face daily to remind me why I’m doing this. I also have a couple powerful quotes/tips on there as a means of self coaching.
You are the PERFECT youtuber for me. You're (almost) a similar age to me, and you've been where I am now. I relate to you and what you say so much.
Thank you so much!!
It was really helpful, thank you for sharing it with everyone.
Thanks for the insights. Made me aware that I'm having the same unpredictability with my energy :)
Many of us do!
This is such valuable content!
it works... FOR NOW 😅🙈
Did yo say resparkalise 😂 is that an American word 😅😊?
LOL... yes. It's a made up word
It is called a neologism. When we need a new word that doesn't exist. It is one of my favorite non-words now. You never know, it could become part of the English lexicon! 😎
It is the perfect word! Very visual!
Two words--Exasperated, and exacerbated. Respectfully, as an ADHD person, I can understand how you would mix these words. (you have done it other videos which is why I am pointing this out).
exasperated:
Greatly annoyed; made furious.
Made worse or more intense.
exacerbate:
to make more severe.
@ 7:20... [The template?] "it was exasperated by the template that I used." I believe that you were exasperated, and the template exacerbated your exasperation with trying to follow a system that is not suited to ADHD. The template itself was not exasperated.
Perhaps more plainly, I doubt the template was exasperated. You were understandably exasperated (frustrated), the template made the problem worse (exacerbated.)
Note to self 52 old caren not listen