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Feb. 27th, 2020 08:44 pmI made a post back in July talking about being an ADHD nightmare childe, and detailing some structures I was then utilizing to sorta look and see what was and wasn't working. I feel like it's about time for another check-in, mostly so I can procrastinate doing any sort of real work!
STUFF THAT IS CURRENTLY WORKING TO KEEP MY BRAIN GOING NORMAL:
*I have been getting more use out of alarms. Frequent, with dumb names and sometimes emojis, and I'm allowed to hit snooze but not turn them _off_ until I do whatever the given task is. Also even for things like "tell therapist can't meet next week" and set to go off during my appointment. Basically, they're working really well to offload memory, and okay to offload motivation.
*In the last few days, I have started trying to check in with myself more when playing dumb phone games, and I am practicing saying the phrase (in my head) "are you actually having fun right now". And then trying to be okay with stopping, even if I'm in the middle of a level or something. I think the goal is to turn that phrase into a habit, and even if it doesn't work to make me stop, at least thinking it more consciously might help me be more aware.
*For my work email, I have started "pinning" messages to the top of the field (it uses an outlook server). Oh man! This is what I used to do in Gmail with starring, way back when before my email was a trash fire and Inbox zero was a dream from decades ago.
Anyways, given that one of my daily tasks is "email", this makes a really good way to keep track of work stuff. I can't check off the email task until I've at least skimmed the pinned stuff --and there're things there that I've needed to reply with for a week or two, but a lot more stuff only stays pinned for a few hours or a day or two (or is pinned for longer but that's because it's serving as some kind of calendar reminder and it will be unpinned after the whatever happens.)
*I managed to do my dailies every day for the first six weeks of school. Then the really bad burnout wot started in mid-October hit, and I got _very_ rocky. I decided to force myself to get back into the swing of it with the start of the third quarter a month ago, and it's actually going really well! I have done my dailies every single day this quarter (peer pressure from past self to maintain streaks is a really powerful force for me, they said, glancing at their 447 day streak on wordssite.)
*I've also gotten _really_ serious about the conduct referrals spreadsheet, where I keep track of how often my students cut (I literally don't write conduct referrals for anything else). This means I'm sending more regular emails to APs and guidance counselors being all "yo, so this kid's gonna fail because they never come to class" and it means I'm repeatedly touching base on the students who are at-risk. I'm even (sometimes) expanding it to emails home as well, but not very often because that shit's hard and I hate communicating with parents _haaaaate_. Anyways, having that successfully set up is proving to be A Good!
*If I get back into tagging my journal entries, then I can have fewer tabs open. It's another instance of offloading memory --I want to be able to quickly reference some given random srs post, which I can't do if I can't easily find it, but if it's successfully tagged, even a little, that will give me a boost.
I should/could write more, but I've been reminded of it, and now I kinda want to work on my gmail, maybe with something to watch in the background. Ciao.
~Sor
MOOP!
STUFF THAT IS CURRENTLY WORKING TO KEEP MY BRAIN GOING NORMAL:
*I have been getting more use out of alarms. Frequent, with dumb names and sometimes emojis, and I'm allowed to hit snooze but not turn them _off_ until I do whatever the given task is. Also even for things like "tell therapist can't meet next week" and set to go off during my appointment. Basically, they're working really well to offload memory, and okay to offload motivation.
*In the last few days, I have started trying to check in with myself more when playing dumb phone games, and I am practicing saying the phrase (in my head) "are you actually having fun right now". And then trying to be okay with stopping, even if I'm in the middle of a level or something. I think the goal is to turn that phrase into a habit, and even if it doesn't work to make me stop, at least thinking it more consciously might help me be more aware.
*For my work email, I have started "pinning" messages to the top of the field (it uses an outlook server). Oh man! This is what I used to do in Gmail with starring, way back when before my email was a trash fire and Inbox zero was a dream from decades ago.
Anyways, given that one of my daily tasks is "email", this makes a really good way to keep track of work stuff. I can't check off the email task until I've at least skimmed the pinned stuff --and there're things there that I've needed to reply with for a week or two, but a lot more stuff only stays pinned for a few hours or a day or two (or is pinned for longer but that's because it's serving as some kind of calendar reminder and it will be unpinned after the whatever happens.)
*I managed to do my dailies every day for the first six weeks of school. Then the really bad burnout wot started in mid-October hit, and I got _very_ rocky. I decided to force myself to get back into the swing of it with the start of the third quarter a month ago, and it's actually going really well! I have done my dailies every single day this quarter (peer pressure from past self to maintain streaks is a really powerful force for me, they said, glancing at their 447 day streak on wordssite.)
*I've also gotten _really_ serious about the conduct referrals spreadsheet, where I keep track of how often my students cut (I literally don't write conduct referrals for anything else). This means I'm sending more regular emails to APs and guidance counselors being all "yo, so this kid's gonna fail because they never come to class" and it means I'm repeatedly touching base on the students who are at-risk. I'm even (sometimes) expanding it to emails home as well, but not very often because that shit's hard and I hate communicating with parents _haaaaate_. Anyways, having that successfully set up is proving to be A Good!
*If I get back into tagging my journal entries, then I can have fewer tabs open. It's another instance of offloading memory --I want to be able to quickly reference some given random srs post, which I can't do if I can't easily find it, but if it's successfully tagged, even a little, that will give me a boost.
I should/could write more, but I've been reminded of it, and now I kinda want to work on my gmail, maybe with something to watch in the background. Ciao.
~Sor
MOOP!