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A lot of planning advice assumes you are starting from a calm, linear, highly motivated state. That is rarely how real life works. And if you deal with ADHD, time blindness, or the kind of mental clutter that makes every task feel equally loud, traditional productivity advice can start to feel useless fast.

Previously, we talked about how a planner can be a tool for relief. I really felt that, because for a long time, I’ve planned the hardest when I feel most capable. When I have big goals and a lot of energy, I use my planner to manage every resource I have. That way, I can handle more than a normal day usually allows.

But I’ve noticed a pattern that when I hit a slump, ...

For a long time, my relationship with getting things done looked like a cycle I couldn’t seem to break. Push really hard, accomplish a lot, burn out completely, do nothing, feel guilty, and then start over. It took hitting a real wall to understand that the problem wasn’t my work ethic. The problem was that I had never built a system that actually worked with my brain.