Before joining Optimize Your ADHD Brain, Lisa put strong boundaries in place.
During family time (including date nights, dinner, or attending her children’s events) she didn't answer any work-related messages.
However, this didn't really solve the problem because her brain was still in the business.
She was thinking of ideas, was worrying a fire would pop up, or knew she had to get back a client.
Her boundary was an external force, making sure she wouldn't actually work, but it didn't mean she was present with her loved ones.
Lisa knew this needed to change both for her relationships and for herself.
She was feeling there was something that needed to happen and it was starting to eat her from the inside.
By the end of the program, not only was she able to be fully there for loved ones, but she also told me, she was able to do better work at work and most importantly she had an overall sense of inner calmness.
While you are doing any task, you (without even realizing it!) are using your 28 thinking skills.
When the thinking skills you need to use are strong, doing the task happens easily.
If the thinking skill you need to use is weak, doing the task will be a challenge.
The struggle that Lisa had, came from a weak thinking skill of categorizations.
Categorizations is about being able to organize items, ideas, tasks, and abstract concepts into categories or groups.
On a simple level, most of us can do it.
If I give you a bag of marbles and tell you to categorize it by color, you’ll have no problem doing it.
But what happens once the things you need to organize are abstract?
Like organizing your tasks in the most efficient manner.
And take it one step further, can your brain focus on the important groups while putting the other groups on the back burner?
In Lisa’s case, she needed to organize her life on an internal level, on cognitive, mental level.
Simply putting a boundary that she’s not going to answer her work messages, doesn’t organize it in her brain and most definitely doesn’t allow her to put some tasks on the back burner.
By improving her thinking skill of categorizations, her tasks got organized in her head and she was able to focus on her family without constantly thinking about work as she now knew it “had a place” and she’ll get there when the time is right.
The first thing we need to think about whenever we organize anything (whether it’s something concept, like a organizing a closet or it’s abstract, like organizing your tasks) is WHY we are organizing it? What is the purpose? What is the goal in the end?
Because you can organize the same group of items in 5 different ways depending on the needs.
For example, you can organize your fridge based on how frequently you use the items, color-coded (or an ecstatic look), type of food (all dairy products together) or based on what you want to be easy access for your children to reach.
None of these ways are better or worse.
It depends on the goal.
What are you trying to achieve?
To practice understanding the goal at home, you'll want to organize a drawer, box of supplies or even a bunch of snacks in multiple different ways.
Before you start, you tell yourself the pretend reason on why you’re organizing this:
For a trip?
For a video?
For ease of use on a daily basis?
Then organize your items accordingly.
As you are organizing it, I want you to think of your items in groups.
This is the group of all the summer shirts or the group of healthy snacks that need a utensil to eat.
Organize your items based on these groups. Remember, the types of groups you’ll have will depend on the purpose on why you’re organizing it.
Once it’s done, mix all the items back together and come up with another purpose of organizing it.
Using the same items and organizing them in different ways, will help train your brain on organizing via purpose and use.
Once you feel comfortable with organizing tangible items, it’s time to move on to abstract items.
This can be all the tasks you’ve got to do, your clients, your open projects anything you can’t actually touch in the moment.
Then, think of a purpose on why you’re organizing it, create groups accordingly, and place each of your items in a group.
After you categorized all your abstract items, mix them all back together and think of new purpose, with new groups and categories your items again.
The more reasons you come up with and organize your times accordingly, the more practice your brain will get on categorizing.
Now we need to show our brain, which category we are focusing on and because it’s organized based on the purpose of what we’re doing, it’s organized in a way that works.
It’s family time?
Anything work-related gets put in its appropriate category, mentally, and our brain doesn’t need to think about it until we get to that category.
On an internal level our brain is organized.
It knows that at the appropriate time, it’s going get dealt.
If you’re having a hard time focusing on the task at hand and instead find yourself always thinking about the all the other work you need to, internally your brain is not organized.
You need to create categorizes so your brain knows what to focus on and that it’s okay other tasks need attention, you’ll get to that category at the right time.
Your challenge this week is to take items and categorize them according to a reason.
Then mix the items up and create a new reason to categorize them.
If you’re up for the challenge, do the same exercise with abstract items.
Cheers to Peak Brain Performance!
P.S. We talked about categorizations and how it helps you save time, in episode 423. If you haven’t heard that episode yet, I strongly recommend it.
Most entrepreneurs want to grow their business but already got a lot of stress.
At LifePix University we help you rewire your brain to become more efficient and effective while experiencing more inner peace.
Learn more here.
This guide will give you all you need to start improving your cognitive functions. Learn what all 28 thinking skills are, how they apply to you and what you can do today to begin improving them.
Thinking is not one big thing. Thinking is made up of 28 parts, called cognitive functions.
Take the FREE assessment to see where each of your cognitive functions are currently at.
Can you help us reach our goal?
Share this podcast with someone you love!
Before joining Optimize Your ADHD Brain, Lisa put strong boundaries in place.
During family time (including date nights, dinner, or attending her children’s events) she didn't answer any work-related messages.
However, this didn't really solve the problem because her brain was still in the business.
She was thinking of ideas, was worrying a fire would pop up, or knew she had to get back a client.
Her boundary was an external force, making sure she wouldn't actually work, but it didn't mean she was present with her loved ones.
Lisa knew this needed to change both for her relationships and for herself.
She was feeling there was something that needed to happen and it was starting to eat her from the inside.
By the end of the program, not only was she able to be fully there for loved ones, but she also told me, she was able to do better work at work and most importantly she had an overall sense of inner calmness.
While you are doing any task, you (without even realizing it!) are using your 28 thinking skills.
When the thinking skills you need to use are strong, doing the task happens easily.
If the thinking skill you need to use is weak, doing the task will be a challenge.
The struggle that Lisa had, came from a weak thinking skill of categorizations.
Categorizations is about being able to organize items, ideas, tasks, and abstract concepts into categories or groups.
On a simple level, most of us can do it.
If I give you a bag of marbles and tell you to categorize it by color, you’ll have no problem doing it.
But what happens once the things you need to organize are abstract?
Like organizing your tasks in the most efficient manner.
And take it one step further, can your brain focus on the important groups while putting the other groups on the back burner?
In Lisa’s case, she needed to organize her life on an internal level, on cognitive, mental level.
Simply putting a boundary that she’s not going to answer her work messages, doesn’t organize it in her brain and most definitely doesn’t allow her to put some tasks on the back burner.
By improving her thinking skill of categorizations, her tasks got organized in her head and she was able to focus on her family without constantly thinking about work as she now knew it “had a place” and she’ll get there when the time is right.
The first thing we need to think about whenever we organize anything (whether it’s something concept, like a organizing a closet or it’s abstract, like organizing your tasks) is WHY we are organizing it? What is the purpose? What is the goal in the end?
Because you can organize the same group of items in 5 different ways depending on the needs.
For example, you can organize your fridge based on how frequently you use the items, color-coded (or an ecstatic look), type of food (all dairy products together) or based on what you want to be easy access for your children to reach.
None of these ways are better or worse.
It depends on the goal.
What are you trying to achieve?
To practice understanding the goal at home, you'll want to organize a drawer, box of supplies or even a bunch of snacks in multiple different ways.
Before you start, you tell yourself the pretend reason on why you’re organizing this:
For a trip?
For a video?
For ease of use on a daily basis?
Then organize your items accordingly.
As you are organizing it, I want you to think of your items in groups.
This is the group of all the summer shirts or the group of healthy snacks that need a utensil to eat.
Organize your items based on these groups. Remember, the types of groups you’ll have will depend on the purpose on why you’re organizing it.
Once it’s done, mix all the items back together and come up with another purpose of organizing it.
Using the same items and organizing them in different ways, will help train your brain on organizing via purpose and use.
Once you feel comfortable with organizing tangible items, it’s time to move on to abstract items.
This can be all the tasks you’ve got to do, your clients, your open projects anything you can’t actually touch in the moment.
Then, think of a purpose on why you’re organizing it, create groups accordingly, and place each of your items in a group.
After you categorized all your abstract items, mix them all back together and think of new purpose, with new groups and categories your items again.
The more reasons you come up with and organize your times accordingly, the more practice your brain will get on categorizing.
Now we need to show our brain, which category we are focusing on and because it’s organized based on the purpose of what we’re doing, it’s organized in a way that works.
It’s family time?
Anything work-related gets put in its appropriate category, mentally, and our brain doesn’t need to think about it until we get to that category.
On an internal level our brain is organized.
It knows that at the appropriate time, it’s going get dealt.
If you’re having a hard time focusing on the task at hand and instead find yourself always thinking about the all the other work you need to, internally your brain is not organized.
You need to create categorizes so your brain knows what to focus on and that it’s okay other tasks need attention, you’ll get to that category at the right time.
Your challenge this week is to take items and categorize them according to a reason.
Then mix the items up and create a new reason to categorize them.
If you’re up for the challenge, do the same exercise with abstract items.
Cheers to Peak Brain Performance!
P.S. We talked about categorizations and how it helps you save time, in episode 423. If you haven’t heard that episode yet, I strongly recommend it.
Most entrepreneurs want to grow their business but already got a lot of stress.
At LifePix University we help you rewire your brain to become more efficient and effective while experiencing more inner peace.
Learn more here.
This guide will give you all you need to start improving your cognitive functions. Learn what all 28 thinking skills are, how they apply to you and what you can do today to begin improving them.
Thinking is not one big thing. Thinking is made up of 28 parts, called cognitive functions.
Take the FREE assessment to see where each of your cognitive functions are currently at.
Can you help us reach our goal?
Share this podcast with someone you love!