another day gone........ | ADHD Information
as detailed and whined about here previously, I am almost completely unemployed (small parttime job still).you'd imagine I'd have some spare time.
I am on the go though from early am until late evening, and at the end of the day I can't remember where the hours went and find myself listing everything that didn't get done.
Time management is a big adhd problem for me.
I once had a manager who asked me to list what I did daily. Never mind that he was fired for not doing anything at all daily.The trouble with the whole thing was I was the first in a new position doing new things, and that I was doing stuff he nor his boss had ever done and often didn't understand. I'm certain my lists hellped me get fired, although they did tell me they didn't understand really what I did and it was a new position yada yada.
What helped was the new, much lower paid person, didn't even come close to achieving my outoput so they realised they a. made a mistake and b. it cost them. :-)
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Ahhh-the I didn't get it done hit myself again list! Have to own that habit myself. However, my supervisor recently had me start keeping an update of things done during each work day. Yes, she's a micro-manager and I resented it. However, I've had to concede on this point, she did know what she was doing. It validates the necessity of my role and gives me a good feeling at the end of the week reviewing it all. Have thought of asking her to require me to keep one for my home life but right now I like my job too much!
Ms Glitz
[/QUOTE]That nasty word again..."misunderstood."I'm finally realizing after all these years of loosing jobs due to my 'attitude', etc., that although I may have had good ideas or what I said may have made sense...it was the way my words, volume, expression, etc. came across to them. The usual difficulties in communicating and being misunderstood that so many on these boards have expressed.
So unfair!
EVERYONE SHOULD COMMUNICATE VIA COMPUTERS!!!
WARS SHOULD BE FOUGHT WITH COMPUTER GAMES!!!!
Oops, sowwy...got carried away
GypsyWomyn38550.4329398148Ahhh-the I didn't get it done hit myself again list! Have to own that habit myself. However, my supervisor recently had me start keeping an update of things done during each work day. Yes, she's a micro-manager and I resented it. However, I've had to concede on this point, she did know what she was doing. It validates the necessity of my role and gives me a good feeling at the end of the week reviewing it all. Have thought of asking her to require me to keep one for my home life but right now I like my job too much!
Ms Glitz
I like to keep one to do list on which I keep adding items and scratching off those that I've completed. After awhile, the scratch offs start to look pretty good. List small tasks so that you get to scratch something off. Sometimes I write down something I did just so I can scratch it off.
livingwithadd
I agree with you...If I have too much time on my hands I get nothing done.
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Likewise! For days before, I keep telling myself that once I've had the appointment or done whatever responsibility that's 'planned,' ... THEN I can carry on with whatever I'm going to procrastinate doing.
I have the problem at the moment of almost counting the hours & mins go by as I wait for an appointment on tuesday to diagnos me with add. I know the outcome will be an add diagnosis and the waiting is just driving me batty it's like I'm stuck in hyperfocus mode over the issue. I just want the answer and to begin trying some treatment (I already know that methamphetamine and ritalin work for me).YES!This is something I do all the time. Like an appointment or some other responsibility can freeze me from doing anything else for days. Ugh!
Anyway, I have a big 'ol productive Saturday planned, gotta go............
[QUOTE=rangikahuta] I have the problem at the moment of almost counting the hours & mins go by as I wait for an appointment on tuesday to diagnos me with add. I know the outcome will be an add diagnosis and the waiting is just driving me batty it's like I'm stuck in hyperfocus mode over the issue. I just want the answer and to begin trying some treatment (I already know that methamphetamine and ritalin work for me).[/QUOTE]
Good luck to you!
TR!
I don't know if any of that time you are on the go is put toward looking for new work, but I do know when I was looking for work...I actually spent 30 hours/week looking/searching for a job...contacting, applying, cover letters, resume, etc. It was harder work than any job I've every had.
May I make a suggestion, TR!? At the end of a day, instead of making a list of what you didn't get done, perhaps make a list of what you have gotten done, regardless of how short (or long) that list may be. Just seems a more 'positive' approach, something you can pat yourself on the back for doing, not putting yourself down or beating yourself up for NOT doing. KWIM?
- GypsGypsyWomyn38547.8527199074I find that the more free time I have the less I get done.