Your body is the equivalent of a clunker car. The passenger-side mirror is hanging by the thread of a wire. The grill is smashed in, and a long strip of duck tape keeps the trunk from flying open. Humans are built for survival. Overthinking isn’t so much the Enemy Steven…

“By popular demand” is such a shtick. Reminds me of outrageous claims and promises that are so silly they’re funny. Remember the Old School Ronco TV commercial that promises “set it and forget it” cooking products? Lots of personal development books promise buying their product will change your life…and they…

Discovering and applying the wisdom of your Past Self is one of life’s cheat codes. Three tiny words might be keeping you from ever understanding how far you’ve come. If (I had only): keeps you stuck in the past. You believe and behave as if that one regret or rejection ruined your life. What (might have been): keeps you from living in the Now. Your daydreams about what didn’t happen can…

Intricate planning is a distraction. No planning is chaos. Here’s what I’m doing instead: — Overthinking and overplanning is a drag on your mindset and your ability to get stuff done — especially when it comes to Tools for Thought and Personal Knowledge Management thinking. Too often, I spend too much time making lists for my Future Self and not enough time checking off some…

1. Work in 6-week sprints. 30- and 90-day sprints also work. The idea is that you have a short enough timeframe that you know every day makes a difference but long enough that you make progress. 2. Identify one area of improvement for the next 6 weeks. You probably have 6 or 8 things you want to accomplish. Choose the one behavior change, habit, or mindset…

My Drafts app inbox is a multi-faceted interstitial journal that serves as a paper napkin. At the end of the day, I review all my scribbles. “Keepable” thoughts are routed to a daily log in Bear 2.0 (beta) GPT-3 summarizes the entirety of my digital napkin. Actionable items move to iOS Reminders using PopClip. Screenshots and images are dragged into Bear (instructive) or Day One (memorable). Consciously writing notes to my Future Self helps me gain or maintain clarity on longer-term projects and objectives.

Walls of text blind my brain, which is why it’s critical for me to keep a daily review inbox at a minimum. This approach creates a seamless workflow, enabling you to access your projects and their associated notes easily. A well-structured system like this can help ADD non-techies stay organized and focused, reducing stress and enhancing productivity. 3 Advantages of using Bear with Drafts: Drafts capture inbox is neat and tidy

Learning to harness ADHD brain means capturing thoughts, no matter how random they may seem. It’s interstitial journaling on steroids. I’m learning to trust my Future Self — at the end of each day — to archive or trash nonsense and to direct ideas, tasks, and reminders to their respective homes in my system. When I’m on a walk, I may remember to check in with a friend or try Thing x to solve Problem y.

ADD non-techies can significantly improve their task management by harnessing the power of callbacks and Drafts actions. Simplify Your Task Management with Callbacks Callbacks are powerful tools for ADD non-techies seeking to enhance their task management skills. Using callback links within iOS Reminders allows you to capture follow-up items as you work. Rather than saying, “Do this now before you forget,” you simply write a note to yourself in Drafts, then send the task — with a link to the note — to Reminders.