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246: Lean into Your Short ADHD Attention Span - The Art of Not Doing Nothing · JOY LOVING HOME - SAHM, Productivity, Home Organization, Declutter, ADHD Mom, ADHD SAHM, ADHD Brain

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  All right. If you're new here, you may not know that sort of my advice is an
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  approach where you look at your home like it's a laboratory.
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  You are just doing a series of experiments and assessing the data.
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  There's no failing because you're inconsistent at some elaborate routine or system.
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  You are experimenting with trying
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  a lot of different things and you're just you're seeing
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  how it goes that's literally how
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  I approach this difficulty we have with being consistent is that that's not
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  that's not our game plan we're not trying to be consistent we're actually trying
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  very hard to be inconsistent all the time.
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  So I have one I want you to try today that is sort of my latest experiment,
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  and I've been enjoying it, so I thought I would share it with you.
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  Give it a whirl this weekend.
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  A wise person once said, everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its
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  ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it's stupid.
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  Well fish quit trying to
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  climb trees while getting advice from well-intentioned monkeys
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  it's time to jump in the water and learn
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  how to swim with the current of your life i'm joy a
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  professional organizer mom of four and fellow fish brain if you're looking for
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  a place to get understanding encouragement and ideas for your home that actually
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  fit how your brain thinks then i'm glad you're here let's ditch the type a advice
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  and embrace what makes our brains and our homes unique.
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  Together, we could have a joy-loving home.
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  I should have said welcome at the beginning of that podcast,
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  but if you're new, so glad you're checking this out.
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  If you've been here a while, welcome back.
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  I wanted to share, we've been talking in the group I have about how we have
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  these focus days that can be so productive,
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  but then the next three days after, it's like we just fall back into nothingness
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  because it has exhausted us.
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  And I have that fish metaphor for our brains, and I liken this sort of existence
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  of ours to be where on those really productive days, it's literally like we've
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  been swimming upstream.
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  And finally, we just, we don't have the energy anymore.
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  And those next three days are just the exhaustion coupled with being pulled
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  or drifting back to some sort of starting point.
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  And the frustration in that is, gosh, I can't ever make any progress because
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  as soon as I do, I just get pulled back to starting point.
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  But I would like to say, I don't think that those are for nothing.
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  I think those productive days still make more progress than we give ourselves credit for.
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  And some of that progress sticks. Some of that knowledge sticks.
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  Seeing things that we have done and assessing how that has worked out is something
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  that isn't given up when we drift back to what we think is ground zero again.
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  So what I would like to introduce today, however, is what could we do to maybe
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  make a little more out of those drifting backwards days, out of those days when
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  we don't think we have the energy for anything?
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  I want to introduce the idea of dropping in some cleaning snacks.
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  Okay, where did this idea come from? I have been trying to get myself to just,
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  not do nothing.
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  I was going to title this The Art of Not Doing Nothing, but I don't know how,
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  searchable that's going to be, so I'm not sure what the title is going to be yet.
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  You'll have to see if that was actually what I went with, or if you just have
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  to listen to know that the title of this podcast should have been The Art of Not Doing Nothing.
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  That's what we're going to lean into today. But anyway, in this effort of trying
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  to figure out something that my body will accept as some form of workout.
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  I happened upon some reel.
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  I would love to credit things, guys. I can doom scroll for hours and have no
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  clue where I saw something or when I saw something.
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  But it was this lady saying that our body can benefit tremendously from just
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  three minutes, three times a day of jumping on this mini trampoline.
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  That happened to be what the video was about.
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  I happen to have a mini trampoline that I haven't used in quite a while after
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  being excited about it once.
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  And so I was like, three minutes, three times a day. I could do that.
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  I think I think I could do that. And then same doom scrolling session,
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  saw something where somebody was showing, you know, the benefits of weight bearing exercises.
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  And if you do these compound exercises, you can work as many as like 25 muscles in one singular move.
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  And if you just repeat that move 10 times, you know, and just keep increasing
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  your weight, you would be benefiting those muscles.
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  Neither of these are promising beach bodies.
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  But I'm like, it's something. It's not doing nothing. And won't my body appreciate that?
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  It's worth a try. So for the last two weeks, I have been combining jumping on
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  my trampoline for three minutes, followed by 10 reps of a compound movement.
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  I have already upped my weight once in my compound movement.
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  After completing this morning's three minutes before recording this,
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  I was like, you're ready to go up again.
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  You could go up and wait again. So I think on my other two today, I'm going to go up again.
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  The beauty of this plan is there doesn't have to be a certain time.
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  I just try to do one sometime in the morning.
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  I try to do one sometime throughout the day that I happen to think about it. And I do the final one.
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  I try to do it in the evening, but sometimes I remember like while I'm washing
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  my face at night and go, I didn't do the third.
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  I'll be right back. And I run down and I jump for three minutes and I do those
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  10 movements, which might be stupid for my sleep.
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  I don't know. I don't piece all these things together.
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  But my thing being, I have no harsh parameters that I have to do perfectly.
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  I have no, if you don't do it this way, you're failing. I don't have where if
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  I'm not perfectly consistent, I'll not see results.
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  I don't even know what results I'm looking for. I'm just trying to not do nothing.
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  Which is something, which is benefiting me in some capacity.
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  I feel better already in two weeks of just not doing nothing. So to me, this is a win.
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  I have counted it a win twice when I could only get it in two times.
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  And I just decided in my head, if I only got it done once in a day,
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  it was still going to count as you did it.
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  Like I'm setting really low bars to clear and it's working.
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  So why not and I will ride this wave for
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  as long as this wave lasts in my head I would like to do it for the rest of
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  the year we'll see if I get sick or if I have a big trip or if things throws
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  it off throws it off but I will ride this wave because I have given up too many times because.
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  Before I even start I've already pre-thought about when it's going to end I
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  just refuse to do that at this time.
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  So, okay, Joy, this is a cleaning productivity house podcast.
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  What does any of your exercise routine have to do with any of these?
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  Well, this was working so well that I decided to introduce myself to cleaning
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  snacks. If I can do workout snacks, I can do cleaning snacks.
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  And so I have started when I complete my jumping on the trampoline,
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  moving something through compound movements 10 times, that I then set a second
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  three-minute timer and do something in the house for those three minutes.
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  In my experiments so far, I had decided I could probably make a bed in three minutes.
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  I could make my bed in three minutes. Guess what? Only takes two.
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  And in that extra minute I have, I start a load of laundry or I switch a load
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  of laundry or I put a load of laundry from a dryer into a basket and I carry
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  it to where I'm going to fold it. And sometimes I fold three items and then
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  when the timer goes off, it goes off.
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  It's still not doing nothing. I've also discovered I can empty a dishwasher
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  in three minutes, and then later I can load a dishwasher in three minutes.
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  I've discovered I can wipe down an entire, like, the counters later that day
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  when I've done the other two, three minutes. I have discovered I can do a random
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  pickup of things off the floor in three minutes.
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  I can, I'm trying to think what else I've done.
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  I can straighten my desktop in three minutes and feel like I can maybe start
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  to focus on what it looks like might be on my pending list.
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  It's just introducing the idea of this art of not doing nothing on these days
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  when we are convinced we can do nothing.
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  If you have a full-on focus day and you want to rock roll with it, roll with it.
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  My whole point being, don't block yourself from the activity that you gravitate
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  towards because it doesn't fit into some system or routine.
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  I really think that's where a lot of us trip up. Well, I haven't found the perfect system.
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  Well, this isn't the system I set up. Well, this wasn't the routine I was supposed to be following.
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  Well, I messed up on the routine I was following, and now I'm an all or nothing, so it's nothing.
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  This is the art of not doing nothing.
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  Give it a try. You might enjoy it. Let's get those three-minute timers going. Let me know how it goes.
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  Until next time, continue to choose joy.