Hester Grainger

I'm lazy.

You know, I should just try harder.

And when you actually unpick it all, there's so much going on and you're not lazy at all.

It's just actually the following Friday at four o'clock, you might have had an absolutely manic week.

You're flat out, whatever.

And you just don't have the energy for it.

I was thinking about this.

I was thinking my house is never tidier than when someone is going to come round in half an hour.

But you can trick your brain into thinking that.

So I fake pretend someone is coming round, right?

You literally, so I will say to Kelly, I used to do this before I had ADHD, not knowing.

And I'd say to Kelly, my husband, right, let's pretend someone's coming over in 20 minutes, quite a small amount of time.

It's slightly like the Pomodoro technique, which we'll talk about in a minute.

So you just madly go for it for 20 minutes.

And I think what happens if you tidy over a long period of time and there is no end time to it, it just takes ages because you're like, well, I've got two, three hours.

So you will take two, three hours to do it.

Whereas if you go, right, I've got 20 minutes, you know, the quickest thing to do is pick up everything off the floor.

If you've got stuff off the floor or maybe do the laundry or wash up things that are really quick, impactful, but you pretend that someone is coming over and somehow, sometimes that can just trick your brain into the dopamine kicking in, but also put on some really good tunes, like make it really fun.

Don't because it is really boring, even if you're neurotypical.

but some really good tunes quite loud and even have specific cleaning tunes that you know these are the songs that really get me going you know like people have running playlists yes have a cleaning playlist like come up with something that works that you are like i love this tune which is going to keep you tidying a little bit longer but you have to limit the amount of time and that's when you're most impactful because you're like bam bam bam the dopamine and you got that focus