Using a list to manage executive function
I use a fairly well-developed todo list system to manage my workload during the day. Some of the details are unusual, so I thought it would be worth sharing.
Let me tell you about one of my most load-bearing practices. I’ve refined it a lot, and it works extremely well for me. I expect it to work pretty well for you too, though you may need to modify bits of it to account for the ways in which you are not me. A Day Plan looks a lot like a TODO list. It more or less is a TODO list. But it’s a TODO list that has been optimised for managing anxiety and executive dysfunction, at the cost of not being as good a TODO list. Day Plan is actually a bad name for it in its current state, but I’ve been calling it that for so long that the name has become…
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