I am working on getting my home set up as nicely as yours. The problem is that my wife and I both have ADHD, and what works for me doesn't always work for her and vice versa. Another complicating factor is that our main hobby seems to be collecting hobbies, and it's hard to let go of the supplies when our hyperfocus changes; we always tell ourselves we'll want to go back to that hobby later - and sometimes we do. And now we're also trying to run a business out of our home too! But running the business has helped us learn how our brains work, what helps, what gets in our way, and what tools help us free up mental bandwidth so we can focus on things that need to be done. So yeah, we're not quite there yet, but after exactly 3 years in our own home, we're slowly getting closer to it being set up in a way that works for both of us.
Thanks for sharing. I really love comments because they're the only type of community I'm currently able to set up and it's so interesting! 🌿 Having ADHD and living with somebody who also has ADHD... And then also a business from home? I'd say any improvement you make is an enormous success.💪🏻 I'm curious, how has running the business helped you? Is there a specific example of what you do differently now than before? I'm sure my partner struggles with understanding me and my brain often... and then sometimes it amuses him. I wonder, is having an ADHD partner more helpful to you or does it cause extra clashes? 👋🏻
@@Distracted_GeniusFirst, let me say that content creators like you, sharing your struggles and strategies, has been the biggest thing that's helped me, so thank you! But trying to run the business has forced us both to take a close look at how our minds work similarly and how they are different, what works for each of us and what doesn't, and what falls through the cracks. The biggest problem for us both is remembering all the important things that are time sensitive. One example of what we're doing differently now: Our business is selling handcrafted and 3D-printed accessories for tabletop role-playing games (Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, etc). This year we are slated to sell at several science fiction conventions, so many that I was starting to lose track of which ones we had paid for, which ones we had reserved hotel rooms for, etc - and my wife's memory for such things is way worse than mine. So after some research and some trial and error, we've started using Asana, and I've set up all our conventions as projects, with all the things we need to remember to do as tasks within those projects. I've also set up different "teams" (even though it's just the two of us) for things like marketing, design, production, wholesale accounts, etc, with projects under each of those teams. With that setup, I can see what still needs to be done, and it's easier to narrow things down to, for example, what print jobs do we need to run on our 3D printers before we go to the next convention. And to your last question, it's both good and bad that we both have ADHD. For the most part, we understand each other and work well together, and in many ways we complement each other. But we each definitely process language differently, which occasionally leads to miscommunications.
It's really cool that you set up different projects exactly because it's just the two of you managing all of them. Giving every task it's own project really adds value to the amount of work the two of you are doing. Also it really adds structure to it and I bet it also takes a lot of mental load off of you. This is, hands down, just really great advice!!!!! 👍👍👍👍
I am working on getting my home set up as nicely as yours. The problem is that my wife and I both have ADHD, and what works for me doesn't always work for her and vice versa. Another complicating factor is that our main hobby seems to be collecting hobbies, and it's hard to let go of the supplies when our hyperfocus changes; we always tell ourselves we'll want to go back to that hobby later - and sometimes we do. And now we're also trying to run a business out of our home too!
But running the business has helped us learn how our brains work, what helps, what gets in our way, and what tools help us free up mental bandwidth so we can focus on things that need to be done.
So yeah, we're not quite there yet, but after exactly 3 years in our own home, we're slowly getting closer to it being set up in a way that works for both of us.
Thanks for sharing. I really love comments because they're the only type of community I'm currently able to set up and it's so interesting! 🌿
Having ADHD and living with somebody who also has ADHD... And then also a business from home? I'd say any improvement you make is an enormous success.💪🏻
I'm curious, how has running the business helped you? Is there a specific example of what you do differently now than before?
I'm sure my partner struggles with understanding me and my brain often... and then sometimes it amuses him. I wonder, is having an ADHD partner more helpful to you or does it cause extra clashes?
👋🏻
@@Distracted_GeniusFirst, let me say that content creators like you, sharing your struggles and strategies, has been the biggest thing that's helped me, so thank you! But trying to run the business has forced us both to take a close look at how our minds work similarly and how they are different, what works for each of us and what doesn't, and what falls through the cracks. The biggest problem for us both is remembering all the important things that are time sensitive.
One example of what we're doing differently now: Our business is selling handcrafted and 3D-printed accessories for tabletop role-playing games (Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, etc). This year we are slated to sell at several science fiction conventions, so many that I was starting to lose track of which ones we had paid for, which ones we had reserved hotel rooms for, etc - and my wife's memory for such things is way worse than mine. So after some research and some trial and error, we've started using Asana, and I've set up all our conventions as projects, with all the things we need to remember to do as tasks within those projects. I've also set up different "teams" (even though it's just the two of us) for things like marketing, design, production, wholesale accounts, etc, with projects under each of those teams. With that setup, I can see what still needs to be done, and it's easier to narrow things down to, for example, what print jobs do we need to run on our 3D printers before we go to the next convention.
And to your last question, it's both good and bad that we both have ADHD. For the most part, we understand each other and work well together, and in many ways we complement each other. But we each definitely process language differently, which occasionally leads to miscommunications.
It's really cool that you set up different projects exactly because it's just the two of you managing all of them. Giving every task it's own project really adds value to the amount of work the two of you are doing. Also it really adds structure to it and I bet it also takes a lot of mental load off of you.
This is, hands down, just really great advice!!!!!
👍👍👍👍
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