As some may remember, I embarked on another Low/No Buy journey at the beginning of the year, with varied success. Going strong in January and parts of February, I fell back into old habits — buying a ton of books — in late February and early March, in part because of being stressed out about
Tag: ADHD self-help
Reading: “ADD-friendly Ways to Organize Your Life” by Judith Kolberg & Kathleen G. Nadeau
Without organizing strategies that work with your ADD, life is not what it can be, should be, or what you are capable of. —Kolberg/Nadeau ADD-friendly Ways to Organize your Life Dr. Kathleen Nadeau is an expert on ADD, and Judith Kolberg is an expert in organizing. Together, they created a safe haven for the chaotic
Reading: “An Edited Life” by Anna Newton
(deutsche Version) Minimalism as [sic] a broad term. It covers a whole spectrum of living with less beliefs, form owning only possessions that you can squeeze into one suitcase, to halving your collection of ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ CDs that were about to topple off your shelf anyway. At the strictest end it
Reading: “The Bullet Journal Method” by Ryder Carroll (Self-Help ADHD edition)
Studies have suggested that we have 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day. For context, if each thought were a word, that means that our minds are generating enough content to produce a book Every. Single. Day. Unlike a book, our thoughts are not neatly composed. On a good day they’re vaguely coherent. This leaves out
Reading “The life-changing magic of tidying up” by Marie Kondo
Freedom of choice is freedom of choosing. It’s also freedom not to choose, to decide when you do not want to choose. —Simona Botti My oh my. The world is my oyster, but unfortunately, I seem to be allergic to seafood. Which is an awkward way of saying: Overload is at an all-time high,
The Renaissance of the Bullet Journal
Being all over the place is nothing new for me, as most of you will know by now. Apart from some serious ADHD fuzzybrain issues, doing a lot of freelance work (mainly writing and editing) as well as (still) organizing a dissertation may add even more pressure to my already overwhelmed mind. Furthermore, I have
Organizing ADHD. A Bullet Journal for my Fuzzybrain
Inevitably we find ourselves tackling too many things at the same time, spreading our focus so thin that nothing gets the attention it deserves. This is commonly referred to as "being busy." Being busy, however, is not the same thing as being productive. — Ryder Carroll The Bullet Journal Method I've been working as