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Adhd life hacks9/23/2023 Most of the “work from home tips” for neurotypical humans aren’t effective for people with ADHD who are attempting to working from home. When your ADHD brain doesn’t have enough to focus on it’s easy for it to create distractions, or just get bored and shut down to nap. But I’ve realized it’s a very ADHD thing in general It seems counterintuitive that it would be easier to focus with more distractions rather than with less, but it’s the reality of my life lately. Why is it easier to focus in a coffee shop than at home or in your office? My goal? Recreate a coffee shop experience in the living room hoping for added focus. So today, on a Monday morning 3 I’m attempting a reset by moving my office area to the living room of a house shared with eight other people. I’m hoping it’s a location thing rather than a brain thing. I thought if I only had quiet space to focus I could things done. We’re living with family temporarily and my temporary office was in the garage. I think it may be the result of too much change rather than not enough. I’ve not been able to find my groove since. Then we moved to a new state and a new temporary environment, after taking several months off work to recover from major surgery. For a while I was able to trick my brain by moving to the couch in the living room or the dining room table. This has also been the hardest thing to figure out while working from home during Covid, because sitting in a coffee shop for hours is simply not safe or healthy.īecause the ADHD brain is primed for novelty and rejects any sort of boredom, these changes in scenery are how I keep my brain happy. As a writer this groove is essential for my success. This was incredibly effective for finding my groove 1 for most writing projects. In the “before-times” when I’d hit a rut in my home office I would change locations and head to a coffee shop for a change of scenery.
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