Let me let you in my ADHD brain for a moment.

When I see doom piles all over my room, here’s what I think:

I need to clean my room, but I can’t until:

• I find some boxes to sort my stuff into. But I don’t have boxes…

• So I have to find the best box store with the cheapest boxes

• Gotta check calendar and make room in my schedule to go buy those boxes

• I wanna label the boxes so I don’t forget what’s in them

• I want an easy way to find my items without opening the box

• So I need to make QR codes for the boxes so I can see what’s in them

• I want an app on my phone so when I ask the app ‘where is my purple origami swan’ it can tell me the exact location and box number it’s in

• So I need to learn how to code to build an app like this

• So I can’t clean my room until I learn how to code

Now multiply that by every decision I make in a day 😅 

It gets overwhelming.

So I don’t clean my room.

But that’s why I set up systems…

Feeling overwhelmed with work?

There’s a story I tell in my life tracking course.

Last year, I wanted to host a 30 day habit consistency challenge.

I procrastinated for months.

Why?

Because I fell into those old thinking patterns again:

“To host the challenge, I need to write content for 30 days. I should set aside a few hours 1 weekend and get all the content done, then I’ll be good.”

But…

Every weekend, I “never had time.”

Do you know what finally got me to launch the 30 day challenge?

Building simple systems.

Here’s how my systems got me unstuck

With my 30 day challenge, I used healthy pressure + simple daily actions (minimum viable action).

1. I publicly announced I’d do the challenge, so people who signed up kept me accountable

2. I set aside 15 min daily to write content for the challenge

Before I knew it, 30 days had passed - and the challenge was complete.

With cleaning my room, I used the same principles.

1. I set up a phone automation so when I opened Instagram, a voice recording of me lowkey pressuring myself played

2. Then it redirected me to my phone camera

3. I filmed a timelapse of me cleaning to keep me off my phone

4. Watching the video at the end was sooooo satisfying

Create systems to simplify your life

Because the problem isn’t always you have too much to do.

It’s that you’re not prioritizing what actually matters

(And sometimes, what matters most is taking a break).

That’s what I teach you in the life tracking course - deadline to enroll is May 31.

Til tomorrow,

Jennifer