Best Products To Avoid Wasting Time With ADHD
While individuals with ADHD have so many talents, skills, and proficiencies, often staying on task isn’t one of them. As anyone with ADHD knows, crossing things off your to-do list can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. Between time blindness, lack of focus, and forgetfulness, a little help might be needed along the way to keep wasting time to a minimum. Luckily, there’s a slew of apps, objects, and accessories ready to serve as your ADHD assistants. Here’s a list of five tried and true products that can help you tackle productivity with ease.
This app allows you to block specific websites, social media, and other internet distractions during scheduled work periods. It gives you control over your schedule and allows for you to actually get things accomplished within the period you set aside to do so. But heads up, this app means serious business! The only way to bypass Freedom is to reset your computer!
If you have a problem with fidgeting during meetings, or while trying to work, you need a distraction to keep your body calm and focused. Enter the spinner ring. It’s like a fidget spinner but much more discrete. You’ll be able to maintain your attention to a task and be adorably accessorized while doing so. These spinner rings come in a range from low-cost one Amazon versions to this handmade 14K gold ring.
Your basic everyday planner is going to do little to organize your ADHD brain. The beauty in the Panda Planner is that it breaks down your big to-do list into simple, less overwhelming, baby steps. Within the planner, you can address both your weekly and daily goals. Sometimes having everything you need to do physically in front of you makes it easier to check off tasks.
Alternative Seating
Much like the spinner ring, sitting down to complete work on something a little more playful than a chair can help ward off distracting physical energy. Whether you choose to sit on a simple exercise ball or one of these rocking buoy chairs, being able to move while you work can ultimately increase your focus and prevent time waste.
Depending on how you manage your ADHD, medication might play a big role in your productivity. If that's the case, making sure you remember to take that medication is of the utmost importance. This timer cap and bottle not only allows you to set up reminders to take your medication but also keeps track of how long it's been since your last dose. That way you’ll never have to deal with the frustration of wondering if you already took your medication or not again.
Let’s round out this list with one last helpful app! Forest works by allowing you to set a timer for the period of time that you want to focus (typically 25-minute increments.) If you complete the stretch of focus without exiting the app, a tree is planted in your virtual forest. But if you exit the app, the tree withers and dies. Don’t ask me why, but man does it kill to see a tiny cartoon tree meet its end at your hands! This app is great at not only managing your time but encouraging you to start a project because you only have to mentally commit to 25 minutes of uninterrupted work. Plus, if you can’t exit the app, you can’t access your phone. That’s one less cause for distraction!