One upside of realizing that all the neurotypical advice on #productivity is being able to ignore it all. But there’s a downside too: difficulty finding advice that really does work since us #neurodiverse individuals are all so different.
Gone are the days of reading some NT productivity tip and having that OMG THIS MIGHT SOLVE ALL MY PROBLEMS rush & subsequent attempted change of habits. And the majority if ND advice is stuff I know (break things down into manageable steps, yada yada yada). Now if I see a post with productivity tips, I ignore them completely.
This has manifested in me struggling to figure out why I get bogged down in projects that feel like they take forever, to the point of wondering if it’s time to switch to a new focus or not. But this morning a post from #CreativeHackers got my attention, with this quote in particular:
When we procrastinate over one thing, it tends to overspill into other things.
Jake, Creative Hackers
🤯🤯🤯 THAT makes sense. Every single project I’ve ever struggled with has been because One Thing Caused A Problem and that stopped progress completely. And since most things to my ND brain are pointless unless they are immediately relevant to me, this hits home because I’ve been struggling to build a #merch biz despite taking the time to plan and research instead of just starting with no goals or planning.
I’ve mentioned this biz before in a short post on visual project planning; that visual planning was my attempt to get over a similar roadblock (in that case trying to figure out what I really needed to work on, and how Y needed to be done before X)(story of our lives, amirite?).
Now I learned something about identifying what the roadblock is, and brainstorming/experimenting with ideas to resolve it. I’ll report back, since I’ve been pondering sharing my entire experience with trying to plan & build this business (if you’re interested LET ME KNOW, otherwise the lack of dopamine will relegate this idea to rubbish bin).
Now this one line that blew my mind is part of a post focused on the idea that Our actions create our identities. It’s a simple concept that makes sense for my brain – and he’s got a step by step process:
👉 We face a challenge/ problem
Jake, Creative Hackers
👉 We have too many options, so we experiment
👉 Experimenting provides clarity
👉 Clarity provides dopamine
👉 Dopamine creates the motivation to take more action
👉 And we have the momentum to face more challenges successfully
Go read the entire post here and let me know if it unlocks anything for you. And subscribe to him while you’re at it because he talks all the time about being #creative multipotentialites & getting stuff done.
PS I see that the text in my featured image has janky edges. It’s low on my list of things to figure out, I got other stuff to do.
