How to Use EMT Skills to Handle Disruptions to Your Schedule
Recently* I watched a CHADD webinar featuring Brandon Slade of Untapped Learning.
Like many ADHD coaches, he highly recommended time blocking as a mode of visualizing time. It’s one of those things you hear so much it could be on a “Time Management for ADHD” bingo card — but this time when I heard it, something different resonated in my brain:
I realized that I like bullet journaling because I when I do it I can literally see the week taking shape under my hand, in a way that doesn’t feel the same when using digital products.
Brendan’s suggestion was met with a question, the same question that most of us who have time blocking habits have: what do you do when the unexpected happens and throws everything else out of whack?
The stock ADHD-coach answer to this usually boils down to “the best that you can”, but Brendan added on a suggestion that you “prioritize”.
He’s right, of course, but that kind of felt like when someone tells an ADHDer to just “try harder to focus.”
Prioritize how? How can a person prone to task paralysis, time blindness, and impulsivity tell the difference between the things you should be doing, the things you want to be doing, and the things that need to be done?
