Dr. Micaela

Ideally, you want to, the concept, and I'm pretty sure this is in the guide to ADHD that's in the chat, but the concept of getting work done is amorphous.

Like, what does that mean?

If you don't know what you need to get done, it's really hard to get started.

Or if you think that what I need to get done is a 10 page paper on like Julius Caesar,

that is overwhelming and so if you are a person who's stuck staring at a screen um and you do have like the motivation and like you know like you got to get stuff done um but getting started is really hard start with okay so i'm gonna write down my assignment like what is it that i need what work do i need to get done and then i'm gonna set a micro goal so i am going to write

three bullets of content that i'm thinking of like a writing assignment you know so and i don't know staring at a screen or maybe if you're staring at a screen maybe you're making an excel spreadsheet because that's a thing we do on screens too so don't think oh i need to build this excel spreadsheet of all the expenses and

I don't know what the fuck else we put in Excel spreadsheets.

Think like, okay, I'm going to make the headings for my columns.

And then I'm going to make the headings for my rows.

And then maybe I'm going to format so that this column doesn't turn into a date.

And before you know it, you've overcome that initial inertia that helps you get going, right?

So you've greased the wheels, if you will.

Your brain might be a brain that says, that doesn't matter.

That's not going to help you.

That voice is fucking lying.

It will help you.

Now, can you turn in an Excel spreadsheets with headings and format and like maybe some color coding with no other content?

Obviously not.

It's not the point that you're going to get it all done in one step.

It's that you're going to build one step to get to the next step, to get to the next step, to get to the end goal.