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Okay, brain, stop it.
Jan. 18th, 2021 07:06 pm Despite what my brain keeps trying to tell me, today was a good day.
I got my weekly report finished, and submitted all of my employee's extra duty pay forms (after a maddening silence from the pay centre). My brain keeps telling me that I didn't get anything done today, but that is objectively not true. I think it's partly because I spent a good chunk of today reacting to things rather than working on things I had planned, or things I knew needed doing.
A not-insignificant part of my job involves putting out fires, and doing that leaves a lot less time for routine things. This is not a great recipe for me either, because my ADHD brain is WAY happier putting out the fires than it is doing mundane things. Combine that with difficulty with both transitions AND task initiation, and you get a Phnee who will not have finished her reports on time. Oops. BUT I conquered that today, and got the report and other "boring" things done (they're not boring, but my brain classifies a lot of things under "boring" or "but I don't WANNA" without being very discriminating about it).
I also got the ball rolling on a bunch of the projects I've been planning since early January. So now all the projects I want to do have been started except one, and it will just be a question of maintaining momentum.
There were a bunch of minor frustrations that piled up, too, but they're all minor in the grand scheme of things. Tomorrow I have a day entirely free of meetings, which is a rare beast indeed! I am usually bad at structuring those days, so I am going to experiment with taking the first half hour to plan out my day while leaving in a bit of wriggle room for the unexpected, and see if that makes me more productive.
I set some alarms for today to remind me to take my pills (my pill box with alarms on it is broken, alas), and also to remind me that I needed to leave work before 18:00 to pick up groceries, and it worked, for sure, but dear God every time the alarms went off I jumped about five feet. Sudden, loud noises are not my happy place, that's for sure!
The plan for tonight is to get to bed at a reasonable hour. Tomorrow I'm bringing Peggy to daycare for the day so she can get her required socialization and zooming in, and I am going to make a valiant effort to get the recycling out on time. Getting the recycling/garbage/compost to the curb on time is a ridiculously hard struggle for me, and I have yet to find a "system" that works. More experimentation is in order.
I got my weekly report finished, and submitted all of my employee's extra duty pay forms (after a maddening silence from the pay centre). My brain keeps telling me that I didn't get anything done today, but that is objectively not true. I think it's partly because I spent a good chunk of today reacting to things rather than working on things I had planned, or things I knew needed doing.
A not-insignificant part of my job involves putting out fires, and doing that leaves a lot less time for routine things. This is not a great recipe for me either, because my ADHD brain is WAY happier putting out the fires than it is doing mundane things. Combine that with difficulty with both transitions AND task initiation, and you get a Phnee who will not have finished her reports on time. Oops. BUT I conquered that today, and got the report and other "boring" things done (they're not boring, but my brain classifies a lot of things under "boring" or "but I don't WANNA" without being very discriminating about it).
I also got the ball rolling on a bunch of the projects I've been planning since early January. So now all the projects I want to do have been started except one, and it will just be a question of maintaining momentum.
There were a bunch of minor frustrations that piled up, too, but they're all minor in the grand scheme of things. Tomorrow I have a day entirely free of meetings, which is a rare beast indeed! I am usually bad at structuring those days, so I am going to experiment with taking the first half hour to plan out my day while leaving in a bit of wriggle room for the unexpected, and see if that makes me more productive.
I set some alarms for today to remind me to take my pills (my pill box with alarms on it is broken, alas), and also to remind me that I needed to leave work before 18:00 to pick up groceries, and it worked, for sure, but dear God every time the alarms went off I jumped about five feet. Sudden, loud noises are not my happy place, that's for sure!
The plan for tonight is to get to bed at a reasonable hour. Tomorrow I'm bringing Peggy to daycare for the day so she can get her required socialization and zooming in, and I am going to make a valiant effort to get the recycling out on time. Getting the recycling/garbage/compost to the curb on time is a ridiculously hard struggle for me, and I have yet to find a "system" that works. More experimentation is in order.
