Slowing Down: Task Management (Memory)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Hey team, this week we’re going to keep up our discussion of slowing down, but we’re going to be focusing on memory - well, kind of. With ADHD, it can be hard for us to remember all of the things that we need to do, so what comes into play is the good old to-do list.

Because when we’re talking about memory, what we’re really talking about in this context is task management. How we’re going to remember the things we want to do and how we’re going to go about doing those things.

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To-do lists serve as a way for us to externalize our memory - we don’t have to mentally keep track of all the things we write down. But if we don’t properly use and curate our lists, they stop being a trusted source of information.
We can use our to-do lists to help plan our days, but if we find ourselves constantly not finishing our daily plans, that is a sign that we need to cut back on how much we’re trying to accomplish in a single day. Part of slowing down is accepting that we don’t have to do it all.
To help keep our to-do lists from becoming overwhelming, it is important we’re saying no more. One of the most important people we need to say to no more, however, is ourselves.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:08.4	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:11.5	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:18.4	Hey, team, this week we're going to keep up our discussion of slowing down, but we're
0:23.1	going to be focusing on memory. Well, kind of. With ADHD, it can be hard for us to remember
0:28.6	all the things that we want or need to do, so what comes into play is the good old to-do list.
0:34.6	Because when we're talking about memory, what we're really talking about in this
0:37.8	context is task management. How are we going to remember the things that we want to do and how
0:43.2	we're going to go about doing those things? So that's what we're going to be covering in this
0:46.9	episode. If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking
0:51.6	your ADHD.com slash 130.
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