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Over coming Autism Inertia 5 hacks! · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the Aspy world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  So do you know what inertia is? And do you know how to actually
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  overcome inertia? I'm coming all that right now.
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  So inertia, what is it? I'm talking about autism
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  inertia. And in Newton's law of motion,
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  inertia means that an object is constantly in motion and never
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  deviating from that. But in a more deeper sense,
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  inertia basically means that if you're on a task and you're
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  doing a task, you won't be able to deviate from that task.
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  Or if you're not doing a task, you can't deviate from not doing
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  a task, which basically means you can't start a task.
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  Have you ever had those like moments where you're, you've got
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  loads of ideas, loads of plans, you're thinking, I'm going to do
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  this, I'm going to do that, I'm going to start this project,
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  going to paint the ceiling. And then you just can't start
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  any of them. Well, that's kind of like
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  inertia and that's what it is. And so for artistic individuals
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  who are highly motivated and highly kind of like ambitious
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  ideas, they've got ideas to do this, ideas to do that, and they
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  want to do all these cool crazy things.
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  Inertia kicks in and says, by the way, you're not going to
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  start any of these things. So I just want to interrupt this
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  video and say, guys, if you are already following me, thank you
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  so much. But if you're not, I actually
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  there. I do daily videos on there too.
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  And so how do we overcome this? How do we start tasks?
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  How do we put ourselves into a position where we're like, I'm
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  going to nail this, I'm going to do it, I'm going to explain all
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  that right now. I've actually got five ways of
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  written down, like 5 kind of hacks or, or tips where you can
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  actually help overcome inertia so you can actually get on with
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  the tasks that you really want to do and not be afraid of those
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  things. So my name is Dan and I have
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  autism and ADHDOCD and dyslexia. And I know what I'm talking
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  about with these things because I've been doing this for over 10
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  years. So if you want to learn more,
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  make sure you hit the subscribe button.
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  So let's get into my 5 inertia hacks.
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  So the first one is to provide structure.
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  Now providing structure isn't just like, oh, you know, I need
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  I planned it in my head. Don't need to do this, this,
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  this and this planning structure is implementing things on a
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  calendar by saying, you know, every Monday, it's going to be
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  laundry day. Every Tuesday is going to be
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  clean the house day. Every kind of Wednesday, it's
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  going to be project today or whatever it is you're doing,
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  right? And this can be inside or
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  outside of work, right? You, you might have a job that
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  demands you to be there every single day, or you might have,
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  you might work for yourself. Maybe you're unemployed.
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  It doesn't matter your level of responsibility or employment.
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  The thing that matters is that you're planning the things that
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  you need to do on a calendar. So you know that this day is
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  going to be the day that I do a certain task.
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  Now you're going to say, Don, well, you know, my project 1
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  consists of 15,000,000 tasks. I can't just put it down to one
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  day. And you're absolutely right.
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  This is why we make a structure or we create a tentative
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  structure by saying, you know, every Monday is project day or
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  every Tuesday is Family Day, you know, and this is how we do it.
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  So providing structure actually provides stability because
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  structure is stability and stability means that you have a
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  framework that you can kind of overcome.
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  And like I had this huge issue like this is right here in front
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  of me right now. I basically have all these
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  things to do, right? I have, I have loads of things
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  to do. My To Do List is like, it's just
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  ridiculously big. It's like, honestly, it's huge.
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  And so I was working with a therapist and I was like, I need
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  some help trying to organise this stuff.
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  She said, OK, cool, make it into a structure, make it into a
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  grid. Like you can see this grid here,
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  right? And each level of this grid is
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  just like a different task on a different day.
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  So I've got days of the week and then times across the top, and
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  then I've put everything into one hour slot.
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  Hey, it works absolutely fine. I'm doing it right now.
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  Today's Monday, and I'm on hour 3 of content production and
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  creation, which is pretty amazing.
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  And I'm actually getting a lot done.
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  And I didn't think I would get a lot done.
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  So that is awesome. Structure is key two moving
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  forward and getting success. OK #2 is my favorite one.
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  This is To Do List. Now we all have To Do List
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  coming out of To Do List. So you have like this To Do List
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  and then you'll have another To Do List and I'll have dude, I
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  have like so many to do lists. Like I have like a book full of
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  just different to do lists. And that's OK.
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  Actually, this tagline on the front of my notebook says my
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  brain has too many tabs open. And it's absolutely right
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  because that's what it feels like.
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  I have too many tabs open with too many to do lists, but you
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  don't want just A to do list that you just pile things onto
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  and you never get them done. This is the best way to overcome
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  inertia in the in the form of actually having A to do list.
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  Because most of the part of the problem of inertia is that you
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  can't get started on something because you have no structure
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  and stability. But then you also have no
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  indication of what you're going to do next.
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  Like what is the integral pass with the the small piece that
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  you want to action? So this is how we do it.
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  You write a list of all the things that you need to do or
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  you want to do that's going to move you towards a happier
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  existence. Like, you know, it could be I
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  need to clean my shed and pay the house.
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  I have a free Autism Life XPDF book that you can download right
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  now from autismtips.net. It's completely free.
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  You can go there right now and download it, earn an extra $1000
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  a month or whatever. And then when you you look at
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  this list, you say, OK, which one?
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  If I was to pick one of these off the list now and just have
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  it completed instantly, which one of those things would bring
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  me the most satisfaction and success 1st and then you get
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  that one and then you put it in a new list.
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  And then what you do is you put a date of completion.
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  You say, OK, so say it's earning an extra 1000 bucks.
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  I want to be able to earn an extra 1000 bucks a month by 6
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  months time or whatever the day is.
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  And then you list out all of the individual parts that's going to
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  get you there. Like OK, first I'm going to look
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  at my skill set, make a resume. Then I'm going to find jobs that
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  are looking for that skill set. Then I'm going to actually
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  hammer it and find a job that does that.
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  Then when I do a job that does that, they need to do it for
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  this amount of weeks. I don't want to pay so I can get
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  that much more money coming in and that is how you do it.
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  Then you take one of those actionable items and you apply
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  it to do something every single day consecutively.
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  Just one a day for however many days it takes you to complete
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  that task. You will find though, two
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  things. One is that you don't have that
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  many things on your list to do. And when you start implementing
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  a single task, you might actually be able to do more than
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  one a day. But don't go more than one a day
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  to begin with. That is how you ace a list.
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  OK, so #3 is organizing your day around your energy levels like
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  I've already told you about organizing your day into like
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  while your week into different days for different things,
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  getting you To Do List so you know what you're doing on each
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  day, but also energy levels. Dude, if you wake up on a Monday
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  morning and you're completely just just not fired up to do
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  anything, you just like lethargic and it was a late
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  night and the kids were up or whatever, those things going to
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  impact your ability to actionably do any of these
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  items, right? So you can't really do those
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  things. So work around the levels.
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  Look at a day where you have a low demands for energy levels
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  and switch the day around because you're doing this week
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  by week. So you have the ability to do
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  that. And on a day where you wake up
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  and you fight up to do like flip tables or something, or write a
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  rodeo or whatever, then implement the things that are
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  fast tasks, heavy demand on you on those days.
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  Because this is what's going to get you over those things.
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  And over the hill, right? It's going to be super dope #4
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  is to have visual reminders, right?
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  So visual reminders could be sticky notes or they could be
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  little pieces of motivational information you stick around
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  your house to be like, duh, remember you're going to clean
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  the car today, Tuesday's calculating day.
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  Because what happens for autistic individuals is that the
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  more that they can motivate it, the more they can be encouraged
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  to do something, The more visual that thing can be, the easier
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  and better is for the autistic person.
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  And this goes without the same because autistic people have a
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  big issue with things that are not visual or lack of visual
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  stimuli because visual is just everything, right?
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  It's key to the success of an autistic person's ability to
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  overcome something being visual, having visual reminders, having
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  visual spatially around you is going to be way good and helping
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  you stay motivated and wanting to do and complete those tasks
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  because you're having a reminder.
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  And it's not just a reminder. It says bring, you know, do the
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  do the laundry. It'll be like a little picture
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  of the laundry, something visual.
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  No fun. OK #5 is the the most important
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  thing, right? This is to work on tasks in a
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  distraction free area. Now I do this via a few things.
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  Okay, I put my phone onto like airplane mode so as if I'm in
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  the cinema called cinema mode. So I put it on airplane mode and
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  I check it into a draw. So it's out of the way and I
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  can't see it when I'm needing to work.
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  Have noise cancelling headphones that I wear so that it blocks
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  out all noise. So there's no like, because one
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  of the big things is like distractions, right?
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  So phone is a distraction. We do scrolling on Facebook and
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  then you're never going to get anything done because you're
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  just looking at like, you know, Fred next door's got a new cat
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  and all this kind of stuff on Facebook.
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  It doesn't make any sense. So phone away on airplane mode.
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  Now the other thing headphones and and the thing about
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  headphones is noise cancelling headphones change the game.
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  What it does is it blocks out noise.
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  So there could be other people that are you can have kids in
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  the house, you can have, I don't, I don't know, the
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  neighbors playing outside, right?
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  And they're having a water fight and you're like, dude, like I'm
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  trying to work in here. Fix it.
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  Noise cancelling headphones. You're trying to solve a
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  problem. You're not trying to, you know,
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  get the world to change. You have to implement these
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  things to overcome them, right? So noise cancelling headphones,
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  distraction free desk. So with all of my things, you
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  can see my desk is like super clean right now, right?
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  There's nothing on here. It's just my computer that with
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  microphone speakers, it's like plan for decoration because
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  apparently if you have like greenery around you when you're
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  working, helps stimulate some kind of brain matters.
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  Like, I don't know, there's some study about it, but I'm not a
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  studier of those type of things that you said I thought was
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  cool. So yeah, I've got my sunglasses,
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  which are like the AI sunglasses from the Ray Barnes Wells.
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  So and that's it. It's also my desk and then my
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  headphones, obviously. And then that's it.
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  So I'll look, I've got a computer, I've got a drink.
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  Let's go, right? That is a distraction free area.
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  And I've created distraction free sensory stimuli because
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  those things are the things are going to get me through life.
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  Those things are the things are going to get me to concentrate
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  and focus on these things. Especially if you have ADHD and
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  autism together, you're going to be able to focus on these
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  things. But you just done now the five
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  hacks of ways that you can implement technics your life on
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  the awesome spectrum when dealing with inertia.
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  I just want to suggest in this video here to let you know that
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  confidence is one of the main issues that hold autistic
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  individuals back from their full potential.
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  This is why I read a course which is the Chaos to Confidence
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  in 90 Days of Blueprint, which means I can take an autistic
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  person from complete chaos to being very confident and acing
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  their life. So if you're an artistic adult
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  and you want access to this program, you can check it out.
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  See you in the next one. Peace.