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How do you do schedules? (self.adhd)

submitted 1 year ago by lanolinoil to c/adhd

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I have struggled with this forever. I have gotten OK with lists of things I need to do and organizing those in a few different places I actually will look at, but what do I do about scheduling/calendars? I can do what my work calendar says but anytime I make my own schedule, it becomes invisible to me and I don't even consider it very quickly.

Anyone have any tips for scheduling tasks and actually following through with it?

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[–] MrPoopyButthole 5 points 1 year ago

For me it has to be an audible alert from a device that I will hear no matter what. Cell phone alarm is great. If you have a smart watch, even better. If you live on your computer then something like an outlook calendar alert might work for you. Now when the alert happens you still have to do the thing. I tell myself that doing the thing avoids more pain than not doing the thing and then after a while it becomes routine and I just do it without any justification needed.