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CHRISTMAS ADHD TIP - PRIORITISATION
A tip that I have been recommending with regards to overwhelm, which coming up to Christmas, may feel quite relevant to prevent stress, is to prioritise the activities that are important to you and that need to be done, and which activities are less important and can be postponed or delegated to others. This is useful when you have ‘a lot to do’ and ‘not enough time to do it in’ to pace yourselves better. People with ADHD tend to take on too much and do too much which would make anyone feel overwhelmed.
There are a number of ways to do this, however, I recommend writing down all the things that you have to do on a long list and then with the help of another person (or if you are able to do this, on your own) go through the list and decide which activities are most important and urgent and which are less so. You may wish to use pen and paper and highlighters to do this or do it on your phone or computer. A few suggestions would be to number the list in order of priority, or you can tick the high priority ones, half tick the medium ones and cross the low priority ones or prioritize high priority items as green, medium as amber and low priority as red.
The next step is to plan when you are going to do the activities. Using the prioritisation list you have written, choose the high priority activities and schedule these activities into your online or paper weekly diary. It is useful to highlight ones which have a deadline and need to be done on a specific day or time. Next, schedule in the medium priority activities. If you have time, plan in some low priority ones, however any low priority activities, you do not have time to do, can be postponed till later.
Hope that this helps you over the Christmas period and into the start of the New Year. Do let us know if so!
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