Thrive With ADD

Isolation during corona-time requires new ADHD strategies… When my formerly successful solutions for productivity stopped working, I had to learn new things about myself.

With ADHD, your random thoughts – and the fear that you’ll forget them – lead to a lot of needless jumping from task to task.  Create one place to enter everything you need to deal with or remember. Simply “park” incoming thoughts in that place and immediately return to what you were doing.

Evernote is the best place to store anything online if you’re ADD, ADHD, or simply organization-challenged.  Enter any kind of file, photo, email or document into Evernote on any of your devices — PC or Mac, phone, tablet — and pull it up on all your other devices.

It’s tough to focus on work during a time of personal crisis, with or without ADHD. Here’s how to stay productive when your mind is going around on a “What If…?!” hamster wheel.

Waiting for the dentist?  I did my most productive and focused work all week during 45 minutes on my laptop in the dentist’s waiting room.

In fact, in that short time I got much more done than I would have in my home office….