Doing things that belong to the can’t be forgotten category as soon as they surface, no exceptions unless there has to be one. Then they go to a to-do list, but this raises the likelihood of adhd tax already a lot. These are things like bills.

Letting myself just idle sometimes if I’m very unmotivated, trusting more that the doing will happen when a deadline is close or some such thing raises my motivation.

I also pile stuff for myself on purpose for high energy moments at work. These are on a to-do list. Then I slack the rest of the time. It’s a very bursty style of doing stuff.

Trusting in my way of getting shit done is the biggest thing I suppose. Still working on it too, but I’ve noticed that I tend to still be ahead of my coworkers or end up with higher workloads even when I myself feel like most of the time I am not doing anything.

I’ve started to pay attention to how incredibly slow the normos are when doing anything and I try to compare myself to that more. If the end result is the same, who cares how we get there?

This is my long way of saying that I am going with my adhd more, on those moments or days of no motivation I just don’t do much. I’ve noticed it’s kind of pointless to force it. The motivation comes when I can feel my heels burning a bit from hitting a time limit or something. It’s probably a taxing way to exist, but adhd is. I try to remember that dopamine is released by both positives and negatives, sometimes I lean on the negatives like fear and fear of failure too, but it still works. It’s how my brain works.