Dr. Michaela Thorderson

Dr. K's idea of timing yourself is one of my favorite tips to better learn how to manage your time.

You can do this by timing yourself for the whole project or you can do it by timing yourself in increments.

Both strategies are helpful because it's really useful to know how long is it really gonna take me to get something done.

With ADHD, we look at tasks and we're like, oh my God, it's gonna be so much work.

And we overestimate how much effort and time it's gonna take us, which ends up leading to lots of procrastination.

I don't know how many things I've had to do on my to-do list.

I'm like, oh, it's going to take forever.

It's going to take forever.

I put it off for months and then I get to it and it takes me 10 minutes.

Do I learn from that?

Not often.

And these strategies can help, right?

Because then instead of looking at that and being like, oh my God, it's going to take hours.

I can look at a task and say, hey, I don't like that task.

And it's only going to take me 15 minutes if I can just get it done.

On the flip side, for tasks that do take longer periods of time, it can be really helpful to set smaller increments.

Any two hour task is going to be, at least in my opinion, a little bit overwhelming to get started with.

And so it's helpful for me to look at, okay, what can I get done in 10 minutes of time?

So that that way it's easier for me to approach because I can think, oh, this is all that I need to do.

Or you can think about, well,