if this sounds like you please watch this video you are a highly intellectual individual who wants to improve their life in any sort of area and you started to look for options and ways to improve your life and deepen your knowledge about self-improvement productivity how to manage your time how to control over your life how to achieve more how to be successful and then one day you start to search how to be more productive how to be more efficient and you find yourself digging into the self-improvement self-development kind of a niche after a bit of
time and after a bit of time of research you see that there's so many contents out there like books podcasts maybe articles some interviews with very successful people about life and improving yourself these are the facts you start to consume them and the tips that they gave really make sense for you and after a bit of consuming those type of media you'll learn the basics of productivity such as eating the Frog two-minute rule breaking down the bigger project into smaller tasks motivating speeches and so many ways to cure procrastination and when you think about them
they really all do make sense for example Mark Twain cult if it's your job to eat a frog it's best to do it first thing in the morning and if it's your job to eat two frogs it's best to eat the biggest one first so it basically implies that the hardest task should be your first task of today and after you accomplish that the other tasks are much easier than that and since you know that it will be much easier for you to accomplish every task you have and have a productive day when you think
about it it really makes sense because once you accomplish the very hard task all of them are much easier than that so you should be able to do that right but for some reason all of the things and tips that you have heard that made sense in your head doesn't really apply in real life for some reason but when you search online when you read about Reddit maybe discussions it seems to work for everyone but but not you you try to understand the reason why it doesn't work for you so you think maybe this method
doesn't really work for me so let me try another method and then you try another method but it also doesn't work for you so you start to think maybe the problem is not the method the problem is me who can't apply them in real life after multiple times of trying and failing you start to blame yourself because other than you it works for everyone and if the methods are coming from a very successful people then the method itself should be solid right with the time you kind of lose motivation towards productivity and you kind of
believe that maybe productivity and self-improvement is just not for you it's for people who can achieve their goals it's for people who can keep the promises that they gave for themselves and you're not that kind of a person you just even keep a promise to yourself so how are you supposed to be successful right but actually that is not the truth of course there can be a various reasons why those productivity methods aren't applying for you but one thing I've realized in most of adults that are struggling with productivity after trying multiple methods and failing
for unknown reason can be ADHD the reality is that ADHD in the adults usually remains undiagnosed in 50 to 66 percent of cases the symptoms of ADHD may continue from childhood to adulthood yet many adults with ahd doesn't receive a diagnosis so estimated prevalence in the US is about 4.4 percent of the adults which makes about 10 million people around there and also the problem with adult ADHD is that because you didn't get diagnosed in your childhood most of the people don't even question their ADHD and one study estimated that 40 of the adults met
criteria of ADHD have a lower quality of life and generally struggling with productivity in some areas of work in order to understand whether you have ADHD you can check out some protocols about the sm5 like how to diagnose ADHD and if most of the symptoms are applying for you I highly recommend you to check a professional and get a check about it because ADHD can affect every area of your life let's talk about the problems in productivity world that doesn't apply for ADHD so when it comes to the neurotypicals so people without ADHD and people
with ADHD the way that ADHD brain works is really different from neurotypicals and when you look on YouTube and when you read about other productivity sources most of people talk about neurotypical brains so people without an ADHD so if you have an ADHD of course those tips will not apply for you because your brain simply Works different it's not because you're less than them or if you have problems it's just simply your brain works in a different way and ADHD is not necessarily always a bad thing if you have a creative job or if you
are able to have your freedom ADHD brain can actually make wonders so maybe the typical 9-5 job sitting in front of a desk might not be the best choice for you but there are of course some areas that you can shine as an ADHD person but about them we can talk about in a different video so let's talk about the differences between a neurotypical brain and ADHD brain when it comes to the productivity World there are three major flaws in common productivity so those three are motivation distraction and overwhelm so let's talk about the motivation
Factor when it comes to the neurotypicals people without an ADHD they get motivated by importance consequences and rewards so when they have a deadline when they know something is important for them neurotypicals get motivated by that but when it comes to ADHD people it is not the case you know that you need to fill tax documents and you know they're important so neurotypicals get done their tax documents before the due date because they know the importance of it but when you have an ADHD brain it struggles understanding the importance of tasks and ADHD brain often
struggles with prioritizing so when you have a bunch of tasks in your table ADHD brain gets easily confused and it starts to prioritize the tasks that are not even priority for you even though you know which ones are important for you you kind of find yourself doing unnecessary tasks that are not even priority in your life when it comes to the best example can be the eat the Frog productivity method so when you do the hardest part the most priority task in your day in the beginning of your day the rest of the tasks you
shouldn't be worrying much about them so with ahd even though you know that the frog is there you stare at the Frog for hours but you wonder why you don't even eat the Frog you know that you need to eat it but you don't do it simply and you start to blame yourself and you start to question yourself and that frog remains till tomorrow and when tomorrow comes you do the same thing over and over again until it becomes a problem let's talk about the other productivity tip breaking down a big project into all of
its smaller steps so you break down big project into smaller achievable steps but then because you are bad at estimating how much time it takes actually to do one task and understand how to prioritize those small tasks you start to get really overwhelmed by it so you start to think like oh maybe I should check Twitter maybe someone replied me on DM oh I should maybe check this documentary on this side and you find yourself browsing on a very unrelated topic about hours and hours and you say oh maybe I should do those small tasks
tomorrow and then you delay all of these productivity methods should work perfectly and they all make sense but for some reason you don't eat the Frog and even though though you break down the bigger project into smaller steps you don't do them and if you don't do them those methods don't work so you question yourself why am I not even doing them I know that I need to eat the Frog and I know I need to accomplish those smaller steps but the problem is because ahd brains are motivated by four C's and they are Captivate
create compete and complete so Captivate is when something captivates your interest so when it's something new and when it's something interesting for you your ahd brain get motivates by doing something new so ADHD people are often really into new stuff trying new things even though it can be a same work you're really Keen to trying something new and doing in a very different way one thing I would like my fellow ADHD people to try is morning Brew morning Brew is a free daily newsletter service delivered from Monday to Friday and it gets you speed in
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about ADHD your brain is that it is really creative since it is really Keen to new things and it is really creative you like creating and creative things excites you so when you try a new pattern that you have never tried before you are curious about the outcome so your ADHD brain gets motivated the other C is compete ADHD people love a great competition in the competition motivates the ADHD brain and then the last C is complete so even though you know that you need to finish the task that day you don't finish it but
suddenly when you have a day or less you get really concentrated and you give all of your power into that task and you finish faster than everyone else it's because you have ADHD and ahd works pretty well with due date especially if it gets closer when you have a very limited time your ADHD brain fully concentrates and you sort of gain the power of finishing the task faster than anyone else you wish that if you could do this a week before so that you will have a peaceful mind during the week however for some reason
it doesn't get activated a week before it just only gets activated when the due date is actually really close so when we generally summarize when it comes to ADHD the motivation comes from the momentum because ADHD people usually struggle with starting not continuing so there's some people struggling with starting the task and when you start the task you build the momentum and you just keep going but with other people maybe you can like try out but you can keep your concentration PhD is fall into the first group so when you find a way to start
for your brain your ADHD will keep continue doing it so whenever you are struggling with starting a one task you need to pick one of the four C's Captivate create complete and compete when you pick one of those four C's and when you use one of the ways to create the momentum you will be much likely to finish the task you have so there are some couple of strategies that I have learned from a channel called ADHD Jesse this whole video was inspired by his videos I actually if there was a way that I could
share his video on my platform I would do that but since YouTube isn't allowing it I'm just gonna tell the things that he's been telling in his videos but you should definitely check out his video after my video or just stop this video and watch his video okay one thing that really resonated with me from his video is that the thing he said none of these are going to work for everyone and even the ones that work for you they're not going to work every time take these and try them out and if they work
use it while it works and if it doesn't put it down for a while and try a different method I think this mindset is very nice because oftentimes when you find a productivity method you get so invested in it that you think that it's gonna change your whole life throughout your life but the reality with ADHD brain is that after a bit of time the method doesn't really start to work anymore because your brain your ADHD brain likes new things and it doesn't like monotone stretch entities in your life you need to try new things
out you need to constantly change it I know it is tiring and I know it is a bit difficult than the others but you need to learn how to work with your brain because you can't erase your ADHD so you need to learn how to work with it and how to live with it so the first strategy is embracing the pivot embracing the change appreciating it knowing that you will change your productivity method at some point is a very freeing method in my opinion so another tip that can really apply to ADHD people is changing
your environment this is actually something that I used to do when I was in high school because when I'm studying in my room even though I have literally the perfect desk set up I couldn't really concentrate at some point because I really started to get bored of my room and everything in my room kind of distracted me for some reason so I was actually going to different cafes to study and work and you know Focus basically that aren't that loud and that wouldn't distract me that much so new places were giving me motivation and even
though a week later let's say for a week I was studying in various cafes and just like trying in new places out and after a week when I come back to my room actually I could really focus in my room even though it really distracted me a week ago so having multiple places that you do study and work is really good for ADHD brain another thing that you should consider when it comes to the strategies is using time-based goals so I've actually seen couple of videos saying how time-based goals are not good and you should
set non-time based goals so for example outcome based goals for example let's say you want to learn a language okay so the neurotypicals get really motivated by it because when they finish the chapter five no matter how long it takes 30 minutes an hour let's say they plan an hour in their calendar for chapter five and if they finish it in 30 minutes how lucky they are they have 30 minutes free time but when it comes to ADHD let's say you plan an hour for chapter 5 5 you find yourself procrastinating all 50 minutes and
trying to finish the chapter 5 in 10 minutes in a rush and it is really stressing at some point so rather than saying I'm gonna finish this in an hour this amount of chapters just say that I'm gonna do studying for an hour I don't know how much I'm gonna be able to finish but I'm gonna dedicate my an hour for studying because when you set a clear goal of saying chapter five you're gonna procrastinate that is inevitable no matter how much your self-discipline is strong your brain will try to procrastinate so rather than trying
to set a goal just tell yourself I don't know how long you're able to focus but if it's a 15 minutes I'm gonna study language and I don't know how much I will achieve but I'm gonna do it anyway or if you want to make a reading a book a habit of yours don't say I'm gonna read 30 minutes before bed every night just tell yourself that you're gonna read maybe five pages a day so that it is a very easy action to start so you can build the momentum and you can continue it if
you would tell your ADHD brain that you're going to read 30 minutes every day I'm pretty sure that's going to procrastinate and not do it and just delay it tomorrow so tell yourself that you're gonna read five pages which is a very achievable thing and once you start to read five pages you probably will keep continue even if there are days that you don't continue and end up finishing reading only five pages just happy about it the important thing is consistency we're not achieving we're not aiming for Perfection we're aiming for consistency since productivity and
software Improvement is a lifelong journey it is important that we continue the game that we actually show up so whenever you are trying to build a habit do micro commitments because we're not really good at committing to a bigger project so doing by micro commitments you will be able to actually achieve reading five pages running maybe for a five minutes and with the time the more you accomplish them the more confidence you gain and the more understand how your brain works another thing that is really debatable in productivity world is the Pomodoro timers some people
don't really like modern timers however for ADHD brain Pomodoro timers actually can make wonders because ADHD brain really likes to due date or deadlines pomodo timer creates a deadline for you when it gives you a five minutes of break you need to come back in five minutes you know or you can set up a different variation of a Ponder method maybe 30 minutes studying and then 15 minutes rest maybe I don't know but after 15 minutes once you get the notification of a timer and once the 30 minutes of study session starts once again it
creates some sort of a deadline illusion that you need to do immediately so this is actually really important so when you have a Ponder timer it creates a deadline effect which are ADHD brain likes so mix and try with different Pomodoro techniques like 50 10 30 15 45 15 whatever and try to find the one that works for you right now another thing dot ADHD GSC recommends is that making it a game because adhdbrain loves competing but when you're competing with others constantly can really turn into something toxic so if you want to compete with
someone in a healthy way that someone should be us ourselves our past selves let's say you finished one chapter yesterday in 30 minutes so you try to aim today to finish it in 25 minutes and let's see if you can achieve it so you try to be more productive and you try to compete with yourself it can be gym or it can be anything you track your process and you try to aim for one percent better maybe that day since you're trying to constantly improve and you're trying to constantly compete with yourself it kind of
turns into a game and rather than the task itself your main focus is Shifting to you can I do better this time and if you couldn't there is no need to be disappointed by yourself because at least you show up and there's tomorrow waiting for you some no need to give up and struggling failing is really normal with ADHD brain the only important thing is showing up constantly trying and aiming for the one percent Improvement each day thank you so much for watching this video and thank you ADHD Jesse for amazing content that he created
because it literally saved my life Saved Me From self-blaming Myself and I thought it can be really helpful for everyone I will link his video down description below so you can also check him out and he is currently writing a book about ADHD you can join the waiting list from the link in the down description below because I believe that it's going to be a very very helpful book so thank you guys and bye
