If you’re an #ADHDer like me, you are well aware that planning big #projects is a #struggle. I’m working on a #merch #business, and for the first time I’ve gone so far as creating a business plan and taking things step by step.
Of course, I’m not taking everything step by step because there’s usually something that catches my attention (usually oriented around #design) and I run with that. But I’m not sure I’m making real progress; there’s tons of stuff that needs to be done but what’s most important to launching a business?
Prioritizing is a struggle for me, and you know the deal: something’s really interesting or something’s really urgent, and everything else is out of mind. This is a pita in day to day life as it is, but for a large project with many tasks and dependencies, I don’t want to spend time on X only to realize late that I needed to do Y first.
My solution is to write by hand, somehow I find it very helpful for thinking. In this case, I wrote down everything that needed to be done, in sections (I use the #NotabilityApp on my #iPad), and then drew arrows between things to show dependencies. But organizing it by hand threw me for a loop and I switched to #Obsidian and it’s kickass Canvas view. I’m visual and after some time I finally made the flow you see here, where the yellow arrows represent dependencies where certain tasks are better done after other tasks.
This finally made sense to me. Now I need to figure out how to make this work in #Todoist.
#PKM #ADHD #ADHDlife #AdultADHD #Productivity #TaskManagement #TheStruggleIsReal
@ArpComics I’m struggling too.it seems your tricks will be effective for me also. Will give it a try
@shabbir1 I hope it helps! It really depends on how your brain works, I’ve always been visual and into art so using my hand is quite natural – but that took me ages to figure out.
@ArpComics Yeah it depends on person and level of condition. But all I know , I will have to find out something for me as you did. Otherwise will never progress
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