Coaching practices for How to Be More Organized at Work with Adhd
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Right when I’m finally locked in, my brain throws up "remember to email so-and-so," and if I act on it the focus is shattered, but if I try to ignore it the thought just gets louder and keeps tugging until I deal with it.
- All my tasks live as a swirling cloud in my head, so I can never actually see the whole pile at once
- I open my laptop, fall straight into email and Slack, and by the end of the day I’ve been busy nonstop but the one thing that actually mattered never got touched
- I never actually decide what to work on
- I’m finally in the work and out of nowhere my brain throws up "did I reply to that text, did I pay that bill"
Practices that may help
- Keep an attention capture list during hyperfocus
Write down every impulse, distraction, and off-topic idea that arises during a session rather than acting on or suppressing it.
Hyperfocus: Directing Intense Attention to What Matters Most - Set up a simple To Do / Doing / Done board
Three columns and sticky notes (physical or digital) are all you need to make your work visible at a glance.
Personal Kanban, Made Practical - Identify most important tasks (MITs) each morning
Choose one to three tasks that must happen today and do them before anything else.
Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical - Make attention direction a conscious, recurring choice
Before starting any work, deliberately choose where to direct your attention — not just what to do.
Attention Management, Made Practical - Capture distracting impulses to stay in focus without suppressing them
When an off-topic thought or impulse arises during focus, write it on a capture pad and return — don’t suppress or follow.
Attention Management, Made Practical - Dedicate a day (or half-day) to administrative work
Process email, admin, and low-cognitive tasks in a bounded time so they don’t leak into high-value days.
Theme Days, Made Practical - Handling internal interruptions
Capture self-generated distractions on paper instead of acting on them.
The Pomodoro Technique, Made Practical - Run a single weekly priority-setting meeting
Replace ad-hoc priority requests with one weekly meeting where the whole team re-sorts together.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Separate urgent from important with a dedicated triage window
Give urgent-but-not-important items a contained window so they stop hijacking your Focus List time.
Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy - Design the first 30 minutes of the day for attention, not reaction
Before opening any inbox, complete a brief attention-setting routine that establishes proactive direction.
Attention Management, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Attention Management At Work
Maura Thomas argues that the limiting constraint on productive knowledge work is not time — everyone has the same 24 hours — but attention: the ability to direct focus intentionally toward chosen work rather than being pulled reactively. Her attention management framework builds practices around controlling attentional choice, reducing reactive digital stimuli, and developing the skill of proactive, intentional focus. This is a practitioner framework aligned with attention and self-regulation research rather than a formally studied protocol.
- Attention Management Comparison
Maura Thomas argues that the limiting constraint on productive knowledge work is not time — everyone has the same 24 hours — but attention: the ability to direct focus intentionally toward chosen work rather than being pulled reactively. Her attention management framework builds practices around controlling attentional choice, reducing reactive digital stimuli, and developing the skill of proactive, intentional focus. This is a practitioner framework aligned with attention and self-regulation research rather than a formally studied protocol.
- Attention Management Framework
Maura Thomas argues that the limiting constraint on productive knowledge work is not time — everyone has the same 24 hours — but attention: the ability to direct focus intentionally toward chosen work rather than being pulled reactively. Her attention management framework builds practices around controlling attentional choice, reducing reactive digital stimuli, and developing the skill of proactive, intentional focus. This is a practitioner framework aligned with attention and self-regulation research rather than a formally studied protocol.
- Attention Management In A New Job
Maura Thomas argues that the limiting constraint on productive knowledge work is not time — everyone has the same 24 hours — but attention: the ability to direct focus intentionally toward chosen work rather than being pulled reactively. Her attention management framework builds practices around controlling attentional choice, reducing reactive digital stimuli, and developing the skill of proactive, intentional focus. This is a practitioner framework aligned with attention and self-regulation research rather than a formally studied protocol.
- Attention Management With My Team
Maura Thomas argues that the limiting constraint on productive knowledge work is not time — everyone has the same 24 hours — but attention: the ability to direct focus intentionally toward chosen work rather than being pulled reactively. Her attention management framework builds practices around controlling attentional choice, reducing reactive digital stimuli, and developing the skill of proactive, intentional focus. This is a practitioner framework aligned with attention and self-regulation research rather than a formally studied protocol.
- How To Be More Organized At Work
Let colleagues know which days are off-limits for meetings so the structure is sustainable, not secret.
Communicate your theme-day structure to collaborators
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