Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "How To Master Time Management – ADHD Skills Part 1" video.

Organization for folks with ADHD needs to come with lowered expectations. What organization looks like for us isn't going to match other people. In general, it's better to get rid as many of the things that you can before you start. A big thing though is that when you're organizing things, it's important to make it as easy as possible to put things back where they belong. If you've got a bunch of DVDs on a shelf, good enough is if The matrix is in the section that has the M movies. Eventually, if you find that you're not having trouble putting them back, you can consider worrying about the order, or you can number them, but that can cause trouble if you add or subtract any from the list. It's also a great idea to have a bin or something of that nature where you can just put things that you didn't get around to putting away, eventually it will fill and as long as you put the items away before the bin overflows, you're golden. Papers may have to be something that just get dividing into, retain indefinitely, retain until X and stored with everything else that needs to be retained until then. Indefinite retention ones are more of a problem, but they tend to be unusual enough that they aren't themselves an issue for most people. You shouldn't have a ton of wills lying around and there's only so many insurance policies that you need. But, really, the more of this stuff you just get rid of, or don't acquire in the first place, the easier the whole thing is.
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Yes, and for tasks that you know you'll do regularly, it's worth having an additional separate copy of the related tools. For example, having all the mail supplies together, laundry stuff and beach supplies in their own containers makes that a lot closer to the 5 to 10 minutes that is optimal, rather than the half hour, or more that it can take to track everything down.
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These days that was merged into the ADHD diagnosis even though it's a bit less obvious. Chances are that while you're not physically overactive, you're probably mentally overactive.
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You may or may not have ADHD, but the tips for managing life as somebody with ADHD are just generally sound principles for just about anybody. The difference though is that for people with ADHD things like this are effectively mandatory if we want to get anything done and have it together; for other people it's just nice, but not essential.
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Laundry lends itself to multitasking, I generally run a load basically every day if need be. I'll do other things in the middle, but it's vitally important to have an alarm or similar to ensure that you're reminded to move the laundry from the washer to the drier and then sort fold and put away. Also, it's a great idea to do clothes separately as much as possible. It also helps a bunch if you limit the number of types of clothes wherever possible. Socks in particular can take a huge amount of time if you don't just buy the same sort of socks to cover you. I've got basically 2 types that I actually wear. The rest I'll likely be getting rid of, but they aren't disorganized, so I'm not worrying about it.
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Definitely, it's why we can get some things done, but other things don't get done at all even when we don't mind doing them and know that we should. That is until the last minute and there's real consequences of not doing it. The more he avoids having to do things that he doesn't like doing, the better things will go. That means, eliminating, delegating or automating. Sometimes delegation means just letting the person that gets annoyed that they're being left hanging do the task, it may mean paying somebody to handle it or it might mean trading something that sucks less for it.The more things he can move to one of those, the easier the management will get. If he even just gets one or two things a month, before two long the burden will go down and things will get easier.
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