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10 ADHD Organization Tips

1. The document provides 10 tips for getting organized over a weekend, as chronic disorder and stress come from inability to be perfectly organized rather than making small improvements. 2. The tips include fighting over-commitment, setting alerts to break hyperfocus, joining an ADHD support group, stopping worrying over minor items, and creating a launch pad near the door with essential items. 3. Additional tips are assembling complete outfits on hangers, doubling up on tasks, reducing junk mail, limiting plastic use, and making use of wasted minutes to tackle organization.

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10 ADHD Organization Tips

1. The document provides 10 tips for getting organized over a weekend, as chronic disorder and stress come from inability to be perfectly organized rather than making small improvements. 2. The tips include fighting over-commitment, setting alerts to break hyperfocus, joining an ADHD support group, stopping worrying over minor items, and creating a launch pad near the door with essential items. 3. Additional tips are assembling complete outfits on hangers, doubling up on tasks, reducing junk mail, limiting plastic use, and making use of wasted minutes to tackle organization.

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10 Ways to Get

Organized This Weekend


Why do we put up with chronic, stressful disorder in our lives? It’s a matter of
perfectionism: We’re unable to do what it takes to get even a bit more organized
because we worry that we won’t become perfectly organized. The good news is
that seemingly small changes can bring big improvements.

1.Fight the tendency to over-commit. 6. Assemble your clothes into outfits.


For each new commitment made, give up an old Hang complete outfits on sturdy hangers in
one. If you agree to join the school fund-raising your closet. You’ll get dressed faster each morn-
committee, for instance, give up the neighbor- ing, with less second-guessing. This strategy
hood watch. works for men and women, and is especially help-
ful for organizing business attire. Women can slip
2. Break out of hyperfocus. a baggie of matching jewelry onto the hanger.
Set a mobile alarm, kitchen timer, or computer
alert whenever you begin a new task. If you tend 7. Double up on tasks.
to lose yourself on Instagram for hours at a time, Make it a habit to do two small things in concert,
you need this kind of help. and you’ll get more done. For example, reset your
clocks and change the batteries in your smoke
3. Join an ADHD support group. detectors at the end of Daylight Saving Time each
Support groups provide more than emotional year. You could change your oil and balance your
support. For example, members can help each investments on the same day. Or reorganize your
other trudge through boring tasks, like filling out purse each time you water the plants.
tax returns or filing: One at a time, each person
leaves the computer, dedicates 15 minutes to the 8. Staunch the flow of junk mail.
task, then returns to instant messaging — to com- Add your name to the “do not send” list main-
miserate and congratulate one another. tained by the Direct Mail Association.

4. Stop agonizing over minor items. 9. Keep plastic to a minimum.


What to do with old greeting cards, batteries The more credit cards you have, the more
of dubious power, unidentified cords, orphaned statements and receipts you receive. Better to
screws, and so on? Toss them into a “ripening stick with one or two major cards and avoid the
drawer.” Once the drawer is full, sort through it. high-interest store and gas cards. Consider new
Use what you can, and discard the rest. card offers only if the terms are superior.

5. Create a “launch pad.” 10. Make use of “wasted” minutes.


Near the front door, stash things that family Don’t wait to find long blocks of uninterrupted
members need each time they leave the house — time to tackle organizational chores. In one
hats, backpacks, briefcases, pocketbooks, keys, minute, you can sort mail, remove lint from the
and so on. The launch pad might have cubbies, dryer, or water the plants. In five minutes, you can
pegs, hooks — anything that makes it easy to find empty the dishwasher or write an email. While
and grab essentials as you head out. you wait for your laundry to dry, you can mate
socks and gather clothes for dry cleaning.

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