"Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD" with Susan Pinsky
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- In this free organizing webinar from 6/9/15, Susan Pinsky explains how to control the clutter and take back your life.
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Is it pretty? No.
Is it efficient? Yes.
That really spoke to me. People make comments all the time on the way my organizational practices *look* . yeh. It may be looking a little chaotic, but I know exactly where everything is, and I don't have to spend extra energy coming up with a system that "looks good".
Im only 5mins into this webinar replay and I can tell it is going to be insightful. 🖤🖤💜💜
I tell you, this lady is changing people's lives. Respect and gratitude
Indeed
So many Jewels of Wisdom!
1:34 Beginning of Talk
4:30 Organization for ADHD is different with Examples
8:30 3 minute or less clean up is the goal. More examples.
10:00 30-40% of issues is garbage issues
12:05 Laundry and clothing storage
14:05 Paperwork and shredding
15:53 Slow Paper System
16:40 Homework
17:18 Toys
19:29 Using a timer
20:11 Structure and Using Shopping Lists
21:31 Routines
22:16 Suppprt
22:35 Systems in Home
23:20 Efficiency is Our Battle Cry
24:21 Books
25:29 Q&A Begins
25:51 Anxiety of Throwing Things Out
30:55 Paperwork/Bill Paying
32:20 Gadgets for Organizing
33:45 Filing Systems/Offices
36:11 Negotiating Shared Spaces
38:04 Cleaning is Maintaince
38:40 Organizing and Reducing Room by Room
40:19 Storage Units
41:42 How to Start Reducing/ Room by Room
43:03 Organizing Tasks
44:45 How to Try to Turn in Homework
47:16 Weekly Schedule/Grocery Day/Meal Planning
49:52 Overcome Overwhelm
53:04 Organization at Work
55:52 Out of Site Out of Mind Problem
Wow. Thank you so much!
Thank you!
👏🏼🙏🏼💝💐
Thank you for this outline!! I will definitely come back to this!
Good advice. Along these same lines, I'd love to see a budgeting/money management how-to for ADHD. How to make your budgeting system less "fussy" and more efficient.
Yes!!!!
If you ever find anything like this, please share!!!
Well, that's just beautiful, beauuutiful lecture! One to replay and definitely share. Thank you very much again!
This was so awesome! About a year ago I checked her book out of the library because it was the only organization book that I could open to a random page and read a complete concept in under a minute. I knew a lot of things but having it all in one book was very helpful.
Thanks for the review! I was thinking of doing the same thing, it's great to know it's worth it!
I have all my bills automatically paid every month. No more late fees and my credit rating has increased by 50 points or more. Don't do something a computer can do for you!
I have literally spent YEARS trying to figure out systems and things that actually work and if I'd only heard this sooner would have saved me SOOOO much time and energy. Going to buy her books and listen to this again and take detailed notes. Every organizer has great ideas but the longevity and practicality aren't as well defined as she has defined them. Even if you aren't ADHD all this would work.
One of the best things I’ve done for my finances was to automate all of my bills that are basically the same amount every month. No more late fees!
Gonna try this when I have my summer vacation time. My house is so freaking cluttered....My entire family is ADHD so we have plenty of fun trying to organise.
I didn't know I was ADHD until a few days ago. This video is a life/time saver 😍
Almost all of my bowls and glasses have lids. Which are stored in a drawer underneath.
No Tupperware- no transfering, no extra containers 🎉
so funny. I have a laundry hamper (stand up) for CLEAN clothes that I keep moving around on my bed. LOL 😆 contained 'doom piles"
Wow how helpful it is. WOW!!!! Thank you!!!
I sell vintage and antiques…I cannot be a minimalist. Another solution please😅
I'm 67 and have spent my life failing to organize like my Born Organized neurotypical mom and sister. This is GOLD 💛💛
Thank you so much, Mrs Susan C. Pinsky, it's been a while that I am trying to reach out for some good advices, it is very much appreciated, X0X :D
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
01:30 📚 *Susan Pinsky's Early Experiences with ADHD and Organization*
- Susan Pinsky shares her initial experiences as a professional organizer with clients diagnosed with ADHD.
- Susan noticed behavioral patterns in clients with ADHD and started tailoring her organizational methods accordingly.
- She emphasizes that not all organization methods work universally; customization based on individual needs is crucial.
03:32 🧠 *The Complexity of Organizing for ADHD Individuals*
- Susan delves into the reasons why traditional organizing methods may not work for individuals with ADHD.
- Susan explains the importance of simplifying systems for those with ADHD to prioritize efficiency over aesthetics.
- She provides examples, such as organizing shoes or Tupperware, to illustrate her points about efficiency and reduction.
08:08 🏠 *The Importance of Maintenance in Organization*
- The discussion shifts towards the significance of maintaining an organized space for those with ADHD.
- Susan stresses that the ultimate goal of organization is maintenance and easy accessibility.
- She outlines specific strategies for ensuring quick clean-ups, such as aiming for a three-minute cleanup time in each room.
12:16 📑 *Paperwork and Filing Solutions for ADHD*
- Susan provides insights into managing paperwork and filing systems tailored for individuals with ADHD.
- She introduces a concept of "slow paper recycle/trash" for decluttering unnecessary paperwork.
- Susan suggests practical solutions, like reducing the amount of filing and using bins for storing paperwork, to simplify tasks for those with ADHD.
17:22 🧸 *Toy Management Strategies for Families with ADHD*
- The section focuses on managing toys for children in households affected by ADHD.
- Susan recommends limiting the number of toys and ensuring they are organized in a manner that encourages easy cleanup.
- She emphasizes the importance of involving the entire family in weekly cleanup routines and provides tips on optimizing toy storage systems.
21:09 🛒 *Importance of efficient shopping and routines*
- Emphasizing the value of intentional shopping.
- Establishing routines like bill-paying days to maintain organization.
- Using timers and support systems to keep focused on tasks.
22:31 🧠 *Collaboration and system efficiency for ADHD management*
- Teaming up with others to complement strengths.
- Streamlining systems to be efficient with tasks like laundry.
- Prioritizing simplicity and efficiency over other values.
24:01 📚 *Customizing organizing methods for individual needs*
- Recognizing the need for adaptable methods for different individuals.
- The transition from ADHD-specific systems to broader applications.
- Highlighting the value of personal customization in organization.
26:05 📦 *Addressing anxiety over discarding items*
- Discussing societal and individual anxieties related to decluttering.
- Challenging ingrained beliefs about wastefulness and attachment.
- Providing strategies to help individuals overcome emotional barriers.
31:15 ⏰ *Efficient bill management and routines*
- Emphasizing a structured approach to bill-paying, avoiding daily routines.
- Creating designated spaces for bills to be organized.
- Stressing the importance of completing tasks rather than starting them.
32:27 📱 *Leveraging technology for organization*
- Adapting to changing times with technological advancements.
- Recommending tools like iPhone alarms for task management.
- Discussing the shift from physical clutter to digital organization.
33:48 🗂 *Creating an effective filing system for ADHD*
- Simplifying filing systems with fewer categories and easy accessibility.
- Emphasizing the importance of location, lighting, and comfort in organizing spaces.
- Offering practical advice on organizing files alphabetically and by color.
41:04 🚗 *Addressing clutter in homes*
- Addressing the issue of accumulating unnecessary items.
- Impulsive buying leading to a lack of space in homes.
- The importance of evaluating and reducing items room by room.
42:00 📦 *Organizing items based on location*
- Organizing items by where they are typically used or belong.
- Creating designated spaces for specific types of items (e.g., kitchen items in the kitchen).
- The significance of finishing one room before moving on to another.
43:10 📝 *Managing tasks and projects*
- Assessing tasks to determine their importance and necessity.
- Eliminating tasks driven by fear, hyper-perfectionism, or hyper-vigilance.
- Using a specific basket system to prioritize and manage pending tasks.
44:58 🎒 *Organizing high schoolers*
- Strategies for helping high school students maintain organization.
- Emphasizing the importance of decluttering and managing current assignments.
- Incorporating routines and systems to ensure tasks are completed and submitted.
47:17 🛒 *Grocery shopping and meal planning*
- Simplifying grocery shopping by planning for a few meals each week.
- Incorporating leftovers and routine cleaning of the refrigerator.
- Establishing specific days for shopping based on garbage collection and meal planning.
49:18 💼 *Organizational routines at home*
- Introducing specific days for activities like bill payment and paper processing.
- Establishing a structured routine to manage tasks and reduce overwhelm.
- Incorporating systems to maintain a clear and organized workspace.
50:01 😓 *Overcoming feelings of overwhelm*
- Addressing feelings of being overwhelmed by clutter.
- Implementing strategies such as starting small, seeking assistance, and creating a clear plan.
- Emphasizing the importance of prioritizing and focusing on one area at a time.
53:06 🏢 *Organizational principles at work*
- Discussing basic organizational principles applicable in professional settings.
- Emphasizing honesty and teamwork to ensure effective collaboration.
- Providing insights into creating comfortable workspaces and routines.
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This is full of such excellent, actionable advice. Thank you, Susan.
When I taught my kiddo to do laundry (unsorted, wash on cold), I used a dry erase marker to mark the standard settings for each knob, as well as the “in case of emergency” (really dirty) settings. Turns out, it made it easier for everyone! I can now just glance and see that all the knobs point to the marks, and don’t have to read the labels or think about it at all!
Gotta love boomer organisation and productivity hacks about things like opening bank statements, using a shredder etc. Those tips would have been super helpful back in the 90’s.
I love most of this. Sacrifice perfection for simplicity!
Only thing I disagree with is shopping each week and having empty cupboards. Sounds like too much hassle and thinking. We prefer keeping a modest pantry and freezer of healthy non perishables to free us from obligatory shopping and we shop for produce and other fresh items when it fits our schedule. Depending on what’s going on we usually shop every 5-17 days, with longer stretches being when we’re super busy and eat pantry and freezer meals, mostly simple home cooked stuff!!
Lots of us cannot afford to “eschew frugality.” We can’t just buy new dishes because our old ones don’t fit her method. The assumption that everyone can is really classist. And obnoxious.
She also assumes the presence of family members. A large percentage of adults live alone. So that ten-minute meal cleanup? Nope. Again, obnoxious.
Garbage without a lid? Gross.
The bin system for clothing: open to dust, moths, etc. Similarly, the open milk carton for papers is a dust collector. If you have to dig through it: ugh.
Throwing out socks to buy differently colored ones? See above about financial assumptions.
She talks too fast, and has an abrasive tone. I had to check the playback speed to make sure it was set to normal. The slides changing wrong is distracting and frustrating.
Credit card fraud must be detected and reported to the bank promptly in order to be taken care of; it requires the cardholder to regularly check their bank statement - for some banks’ reportage requirement, once per month - which is extremely hard for most ADHD folks. So I’ll continue to be careful w my credit card numbers. And, no, the checking acct number and especially social security number were NOT “meant to be shared.” She’s just wrong about that. (My brother had someone create a fake ID based on his driver’s license and try to commit bank fraud. So this woman’s advice is downright dangerous.)
Do without milk for a week? Seriously?
Who’s the random “neighbor kid”? My neighborhood kids are unavailable for anything - I couldn’t find one to pay to help with shoveling snow, let alone help with cleanups.
How many action figures can a kid actually hold? What? How friggin’ draconian is that?
As an ADHD-er, I can make and use a shopping list, but I can promise you that creating a routine that’s the same every week doesn’t work for many of us; maybe most.
Most of all: ADHD brains don’t function on “efficiency.” They function on interest and passion. She’s pretty typical for a non-ADHD person coming up with systems for ADHD folks. It sounds great, but good luck with that. Why does she think her artist client doesn’t keep to her system?
And basing things on how ancient people did stuff will not work. Who cares? We don’t live that way. That’s a cognitive process that ADHD-ers don’t have. Maybe while someone like her is standing there. But doing it on our own? Because medieval peasants didn’t own stuff? Mostly not. BTW as a historian I can tell you that many peasants lived with their animals in the home, especially in winter (in temperate climates). Their homes were small, smelly, messy, smoky, and dark. And plenty of people in the past were clutterers. I don’t know what fantasy past she’s talking about.
She actually said the telltale BS: IF they can hold the line (or walk the line). That’s a big “if” for us. She totally misses it that logic and reason DO NOT WORK.
I don’t care what she believes about how often to pay bills. For many ADHD brains, paying all bills one day a week is literally painful for us. Exhausting. I pay 2 bills at a time, 3 at the very most. I schedule bill paying on my paper planner every month, but as an ADHD person I know I may not do it. I put the deadlines on the planner and just make sure I pay them by then.
Talking to an ADHD husband about why he likes working in the kitchen assumes that he actually *knows* why. Chances are, he doesn’t.
Get this: ADHD isn’t actually about how you *think* . It’s about how you *feel* . Doing all this cognitive-based stuff can work sometimes, for some of us. But I can guarantee you that the wife asking for help with the cluttery husband can help him set up a great new workspace, but if he doesn’t love it, those papers will go right back onto the kitchen table. Maybe it’s how he grew up. Maybe he likes being where other people are, not by himself in a separate room. Again, for an ADHD person, it’s not about efficiency, and it never will be. Her insistence on “every Tuesday you do ____” will sentence the wife to keeping after him. Many of us can’t stand routines, and it’s not a thought process; it’s literally a *feeling* - of being forced, or confined, or bored to distress.
Her refusal to allow for at least some stocking up is foolhardy. When I was growing up, the most organized space was our pantry closet. My mother was messy, but we always had some things on hand in case the power went out, etc.
She also ignores the way many ADHD folks literally don’t see the clutter. We focus on what we’re thinking about at the moment, and we just navigate around the clutter.
Seriously, has she taken any training in how the ADHD brain works? “So what?” is a brutal response to someone who’s facing an emotionally challenging process.
I’ve had multiple organizers in my place to help. Have read all the books, took a class, etc. As soon as the person was gone, or I was done with the book, class ended - the clutter slowly returned.
I once had a tidy friend come in to help me go through my clothes closet. By the end, I felt battered. This speaker makes me feel battered just listening to her. I’d love to see what happens when her ADHD child goes to college and has to organize herself on her own. I’d bet that without boss mom there, she’ll be in trouble with it. Because her mother imposes all this stuff.
This presentation is typical of so many I’ve seen. All technique and logic, with no regard for how much ADHD brains run on feelings. Very typical of ADDitude’s offerings. How many times do we tune in to yet another talk on what’s the right routine/technique/process for people who don’t run on routines and “efficiency”? FFS, if our brains did, we wouldn’t need advice.
I give this talk four eyerolls, 🙄🙄🙄🙄, because she at least mentioned that we need to figure out what works for us.
My advice: stop doing what the so-called experts say. Actively experiment to invent a system that works for you. Refuse to give up. Call on your creativity. That’s the only “trick” there is. Don’t let “experts” bully you, or make you feel ashamed. You’ve been bullied and shamed enough.
Don’t live with filth or garbage, but if you are, or if you are hoarding, you likely have a form of OCD on top of the ADHD, and you need a mental health professional, not Ms. Efficient. Get the right kind of help. You’re worth fighting for. 👍🏼
Thank you for your comment…it actually shed some light on things I was unaware of. I am married to a man who I feel has an extreme case of ADHD, and you gave me a glimpse of what goes on in his mind. When you spoke about cleaning out closets and how “battered” you feel…wow! That is EXACTLY what it is like for him when I basically force him to clean his out once a year. And it makes no sense to me…but you said it is based on how you feel. I am trying to learn ways to help and support while maintaining my own level of sanity. Your comment helped.
Threes a charm?
Third attempt to reply failed, so probably not supposed to be.
I read this book, very helpful. the pics before and after were helpful. Lots of white space so i actually used it.
This video is giving me so much peace ☺️
Thanks so much for your content!
Wow! 5 minutes and 30 seconds in and I can tell this is what I need.
Thank you!
Mess. Yes.