Are you struggling to focus due to ADHD? In this video, we're here to help. We'll explore five crucial areas to improve your focus, even when dealing with a restless mind or ADHD. Let's dive right in.
🧠Learning to Focus when you have ADHD ðŸ§
Our ability to focus is essential for success, but it can be incredibly frustrating for those with ADHD. Here are some quick facts to set the stage:
ADHD affects 6.1 million (about 8%) children in the US and about 4% in adults.
Boys are three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than girls.
Adults with ADHD may struggle with substance abuse, anxiety disorders, and depression.
In Kentucky, 14.8% of people have ADHD.
If you're dealing with severe ADHD, it's crucial to talk to a doctor or therapist.
Now, let's explore the 5 areas to boost your focus:
Time & Task Management Supports
Problem: Managing time, prioritizing tasks, and staying organized can be a challenge.
Solution: Implement practical time management techniques like using timers and structured methods like the Pomodoro Technique.
Studies show that creating daily or weekly to-do lists can enhance task completion and focus.
Environment Optimization for Improved Concentration
Problem: External distractions disrupt focus.
Solution: Create a clutter-free, organized workspace. Research supports that an organized environment positively impacts concentration.
For noise sensitivity, use noise-canceling headphones or calming background sounds. Studies have shown their effectiveness in reducing distraction.
Mindfulness and Self-Regulation Practices
Problem: Impulsivity and lack of mindfulness hinder focus.
Solution: Regularly practice mindfulness techniques and meditation to enhance attention and impulse control.
Research has shown that mindfulness interventions can improve attention and self-regulation in individuals with ADHD.
Incorporating Physical Activity
Problem: Restlessness and hyperactivity disrupt focus.
Solution: Engage in regular physical activity to reduce restlessness and enhance focus.
Studies suggest that exercise releases neurotransmitters that support attention and mood regulation.
Nutritional Considerations
Problem: Dietary choices influence energy levels and attention span.
Solution: Maintain a well-balanced diet, including foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids and essential nutrients for brain health.
Research indicates that a balanced diet can positively influence attention and cognitive function.
If you're seeking ways to improve your focus despite ADHD, these strategies can be incredibly beneficial. Remember, you're not alone, and there are practical steps you can take to enhance your focus and productivity. Watch the full video to dive deeper into each of these areas and get on the path to improved focus.
Are you struggling to focus due to ADHD? In this video, we're here to help. We'll explore five crucial areas to improve your focus, even when dealing with a restless mind or ADHD. Let's dive right in.
🧠Learning to Focus when you have ADHD ðŸ§
Our ability to focus is essential for success, but it can be incredibly frustrating for those with ADHD. Here are some quick facts to set the stage:
ADHD affects 6.1 million (about 8%) children in the US and about 4% in adults.
Boys are three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than girls.
Adults with ADHD may struggle with substance abuse, anxiety disorders, and depression.
In Kentucky, 14.8% of people have ADHD.
If you're dealing with severe ADHD, it's crucial to talk to a doctor or therapist.
Now, let's explore the 5 areas to boost your focus:
Time & Task Management Supports
Problem: Managing time, prioritizing tasks, and staying organized can be a challenge.
Solution: Implement practical time management techniques like using timers and structured methods like the Pomodoro Technique.
Studies show that creating daily or weekly to-do lists can enhance task completion and focus.
Environment Optimization for Improved Concentration
Problem: External distractions disrupt focus.
Solution: Create a clutter-free, organized workspace. Research supports that an organized environment positively impacts concentration.
For noise sensitivity, use noise-canceling headphones or calming background sounds. Studies have shown their effectiveness in reducing distraction.
Mindfulness and Self-Regulation Practices
Problem: Impulsivity and lack of mindfulness hinder focus.
Solution: Regularly practice mindfulness techniques and meditation to enhance attention and impulse control.
Research has shown that mindfulness interventions can improve attention and self-regulation in individuals with ADHD.
Incorporating Physical Activity
Problem: Restlessness and hyperactivity disrupt focus.
Solution: Engage in regular physical activity to reduce restlessness and enhance focus.
Studies suggest that exercise releases neurotransmitters that support attention and mood regulation.
Nutritional Considerations
Problem: Dietary choices influence energy levels and attention span.
Solution: Maintain a well-balanced diet, including foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids and essential nutrients for brain health.
Research indicates that a balanced diet can positively influence attention and cognitive function.
If you're seeking ways to improve your focus despite ADHD, these strategies can be incredibly beneficial. Remember, you're not alone, and there are practical steps you can take to enhance your focus and productivity. Watch the full video to dive deeper into each of these areas and get on the path to improved focus.
Speaker 1:
You know what?
Speaker 2:
What you got.
Speaker 1:
I think our ability to focus. Focus is a skill it's a muscle. It can be one of the greatest contributors to our success. But trying to focus when you have a restless mind, which many of us have, some of us have what's called ADHD, so it can be as extreme as squirrel all day and it can be as less extreme as just having a hard time focusing. But that can be extremely frustrating when you sit down to read a book and you're like three pages in and you don't even know the book.
Speaker 2:
No, I have no idea what you're reading. Yeah, you're like thinking about random things.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that can be frustrating. Sounds frustrating, yeah. So today we're talking about how to focus, whether you have a restless mind or all the way to diagnosed ADHD. Some good old tips or tricks to increase focus. Nice bro, let's do it One, two, one.
Speaker 2:
I'm Jonathan Nawal and I'm Brian Nawal.
Speaker 1:
This is the focus cast where we help you remove distractions, increase focus so you can live a life with intentions. So, bro, we're talking about five areas to help you increase focus when you're struggling with the restless mind, and I think you should hit us with some quick facts. Quick facts ADHD, some did, you knows.
Speaker 2:
ADHD Attention hyper.
Speaker 1:
Attention deficit, hyper deficiency, something like that we should probably know that Just don't define it bro.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you're right. Adhd affects 6.1 million about 8% children in the US. Wow, I fucked that up. Alright, just go ahead and clap. Alright, we'll sit. Some ADHD Quick facts.
Speaker 1:
Yes, right, some did, you knows.
Speaker 2:
ADHD affects around one of our on 6.1 million children in the US. That's around 8% and around 4% of adults in the US.
Speaker 1:
I wonder how many just struggle with restless mind. This is just time to do a pulse check. Do you have a restless mind sometimes? Ask yourself that in the car. The second quick fact is boys are three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than girls.
Speaker 2:
Being diagnosed and actually having it, though.
Speaker 1:
Well, there's a lot of controversy around that, so today we'll just talk about Do you struggle with focus or not? And boys have a three times increased likelihood that they struggle with focus over girls. I.
Speaker 2:
Think that One of the problems could be what are they being told to focus on? But true, that's a whole nother thing. Yeah we're not here. This podcast is not for eight year olds. Yeah, that's, true so you know, adults with ADHD are more likely to struggle with Substance abuse and have higher risks of developing anxiety disorders and depression.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, this is crazy, totally out of nowhere stat, but I thought it was pretty interesting. Out of the states, kentucky is the highest state with Diagnosed ADHD, at fourteen point eight percent of people. Why, what the hell's? Going on in Kentucky I don't know, I, I, I saw that and I was just like, well, that's interesting, old Kentucky, oh, okay, the land of ADHD. 14%, that's wild. The average is four percent. Kentucky is 14, point. I couldn't help but immediately think about what different Chemical plants are in Kentucky. That's exactly right.
Speaker 2:
Like I couldn't help in the water. Yeah or like what's in the school cafeteria.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I couldn't help but think about the food. So, anyway, anyway, interesting. If you have severe ADHD, this is like you literally can't function, like you forget to feed your kids.
Speaker 2:
Is that? That sounds like a Neglect? No, what's it called? Where you forget everything? Insomnia no, it's when you can't sleep.
Speaker 1:
Oh, I don't know, hmm, whatever, yeah, yeah. So if you have that, like, go talk to professional help. This podcast is this is just. This is restless mind. You're really trying to increase your focus, but you struggle with trailing off, thinking about random, stupid shit that you and you're really trying To just increase the ability to focus. Yeah, we're gonna talk about tips and tricks, tips and tricks, tips, facts there. So if it's severe, just just pause this and tell us to fuck off. Call some help. Call person help.
Speaker 2:
So what's first, bro? How do we start this? Okay, keep getting distracted, that's right. How about a little time and task managing support?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, you know, we just talked about reducing procrastination, we talked about journaling, so today I thought we would round it out with this group of episodes and talk about Really combating this restless mind. So time and task management supports.
Speaker 2:
Right, because if you do struggle, yeah, in this area it may be challenging to manage your time and for our dice test that makes sense.
Speaker 1:
So here's a very practical solutions, and this is like I love this batch because it is very practical. So first, use timers. It's funny we don't think about this as adults. No, like I've used timers for kids, my kids, yeah, you know. Do this for 20 minutes and then this will happen.
Speaker 2:
And when you're, when you're a kid, like trying to brush your teeth like two minutes. Oh, see my ABCs.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, you know all that kind of stuff, but using timers, time perception difficulties contribute to poor task management. So if you struggle with rest tight, like like severe restlessness, adhd, what happens is your time perception gets a little out of whack.
Speaker 1:
Right, interesting, you can just sit there and trail off for like an hour and a half, you know. Just imagine, like you know, when you get on Instagram and then two hours goes by. Yeah, so using a timer just helps the brain orient towards 45 minutes, you know, and and it helps you, you know, accomplish those tasks within those certain time periods.
Speaker 2:
What's the?
Speaker 1:
next one.
Speaker 2:
Task organization tools yes. Create daily or weekly to-do list to set priorities and maintain organization.
Speaker 1:
Mmm. So just some good old-fashioned time blocking, some good old-fashioned writing your goals out. Man, we're mentioning these a lot. They must be very helpful.
Speaker 2:
I hope so. Let me tell you, trying to remember it all and just do it off the top of your head, like I did for most of my life, yeah, not as easy.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I've, it's in our marriage. This has helped a lot of just needless Arguments in my marriage. If my wife Ask me something, or about my schedule or anything, I say I hear you, but unless my calendar's out and I don't write it down, I will not remember. Yeah, and after a long time of just being Just saying that, now she just looks at your calendar.
Speaker 1:
Now we have calendar time once a week and my wife and I sit down and we look at our calendars and we write down everything that is on our calendars Wow, where we need each other and we do a calendar sink every single week. Look at that and you know how many times we've argued about I thought you were gonna pick up the kids, yada, yada in the last two years.
Speaker 2:
Fucking zero, zero, zero son. So that's results.
Speaker 1:
That's results. Ask yourself in your marriage the last time Y'all had a little Tiffed, a little tiffed because there was an expectation around doing something that you forgot or they forgot. Zero in our marriage. Look at you, bro, zero bad in a thousand.
Speaker 2:
That's amazing yeah but it's effective and you're actually using it, so you know it's effective.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, we're not just saying it exactly. So good old, good old organization tools and work together right with your friends, with your, with your peers, with your spouses yeah ones. So some studies around the stuff. So research around using time or structure time management, such as the Pomodora technique, can enhance productivity. That's Creswell 2013. And then Task lists are effective, enhancing task completion and focus. That's garden 2018. So they've obviously done a ton of research about task management and time management like that We've been.
Speaker 1:
We've been studying this stuff for a year. So these are. These are tried and true research based.
Speaker 2:
That's good.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, what's next, bro? What are what's? What's the next thing we can do to help with restless mind?
Speaker 2:
Let's use our environment to optimize and improve concentration. I love this one. What's the problem?
Speaker 1:
External distractions can significantly disrupt focus and attention for individuals if you're it, you know the open con, open office concept. Yeah we went from cubicles and offices to Just wide open spaces. Spaces, pros and cons. The con of the open workspace is just constant distractions.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I was in a meeting the other day as a consultant and it was an office that had it was a corridor with two open doors, ah, and there was six people in the meeting and every time someone walked by, all six people that I was looking at would just stare at them Like what the fuck you doing? And it was funny because, like it would, I'm, I'm dialed in.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I can focus yeah, I've been working on it for a while.
Speaker 1:
So if I'm in a meeting, I don't care what's going on around me.
Speaker 2:
We will accomplish what's the goal in this fucking meeting in your laser.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so I can go to the next thing. Yeah, I hate meetings. Yeah, who doesn't? Right, if it's inefficient? And I promise you it was hilarious. Every time someone walked by, everyone's just looking up I wonder what they're doing, and I said something. I was just like y'all, we shouldn't meet in here anymore because y'all can't, y'all can't literally ignore Every single person that walks by. You look up.
Speaker 2:
It was hilarious, yeah, and they don't even realize they're doing it. No, just completely unconscious. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Reaction why is that person walking down a hallway?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, someone who works in the building. Why is so many works in this building, walking down the building?
Speaker 1:
I could understand if I turn around. A damn Sasquatch was there.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, some guy in a clown outfit. No, it's no way his birthday, anyway, all right. So yeah, environment, environment. Yeah, establish a clutter free, organized workspace.
Speaker 1:
This can help your environment, you know we talked about this a long time ago, I think this was in around episode 20s. Yeah, for sure, we talked about the clutter. The clutter if you have shit all over your desk, mm-hmm, yep, and every square inch you turn there's just some stack of stuff that you haven't gotten to you yet.
Speaker 2:
That sounds like hell to me. There's that toll bill from that trip you took three months ago.
Speaker 1:
That's now 3000% higher because the government wants to.
Speaker 2:
Turns out if you drive to New York City. And you go through all the the you know, the Delaware and the New Jersey and all the turnpikes and all that shit and you pay all the administration fees. It's around. I think it was like $250 just to drive through, just to drive to New York City. Someone's getting rich. Those are the dope. Those are the situations where people should show up at the mansions and just start burning the fuckers down. Yeah, just my personal opinion.
Speaker 1:
Anyway. So we're moving distractions.
Speaker 2:
Oh wait, did I get distracted?
Speaker 1:
The other one of this is when you see someone's desktop, yeah, and there's like a thousand files on it.
Speaker 2:
Oh gosh.
Speaker 1:
I have a few. I have one folder called active, and within that folder are the three to five projects that I'm currently working on and the files Associated with those projects are in my one active folder. That's on my desktop, and the only time Anything else is on my desktop is when I'm actively printing it, sending it to someone or yeah, using it for using it for that specific task in that moment in that moment and when I'm done with that file, in that moment, move to trash, it moves to trash.
Speaker 2:
You're better at that than me. I still got a couple songs hanging out on my desktop, you know. Move them to the trash.
Speaker 1:
Oh my gosh. So the second problem in an environment is noise. Sensitivity is common among individuals who struggle with the restless mind and ADHD. You know what I? I?
Speaker 2:
listen to all the notification sounds and the Ringtones on Apple and I noticed they all have very high-pitched frequencies. Yeah, and they're not stupid. Let's bro, a billion dollar company like this, yeah, you know. So I wonder if they've dialed in the frequency ranges that really obviously grab your attention the most. Yeah and the answer is duh.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, this, of course. They already thought about this, probably 35 years ago. Yeah, so If you're really sensitive to noises, you got to turn those notifications off. Gotta turn it all off. Yeah, turn all that shit off. Put on headphones and just listen to the binaural beats. Yeah, if you go on YouTube and Go to the binaural beats, you look at the comments, there's a lot of people who say, literally I have, you know, maybe sensory overload or sensory disorders, or I have this and this and this, and they're they love that shit.
Speaker 1:
I helps them focus a hundred percent and I love it too. Yeah, it works so good. Oh yeah, I can't listen to music with singing, no, I can't listen to music with melody, but listening to my just that, that like the frequencies. Yeah, not bad for a stop that it does it's magic. It really is so.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, the gamma waves. Yeah, could you eat some theta, alpha, beta gamma? That's right, slamma.
Speaker 1:
Slamma those tasks. You're listening beta waves, slamma waves.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, exactly, so you know there are things you can do. Yeah, turn the phone off, at least the notifications off so third of our five Mindfulness and self regulation practices man sounds familiar, I like it says self regulation.
Speaker 1:
It's a unique word. So what's the problem here, bro?
Speaker 2:
Impulsivity and lack of mindfulness can hinder focus and attention control.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Psych. Your phone goes off being. Yeah you're reading the text and then all of a sudden you start checking email. All of a sudden you're reading about some special offer from some company that you don't give a shit about 15% off.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, let me go check and see if they have that thing. I want.
Speaker 2:
Wow man, I'm almost out of toothpaste. Let me see if I can get some of their toothpaste. You know, all of a sudden you're buying fucking toothpaste. Yeah all because of one notification, all because I want text message. Yeah, so anyway, it just happens.
Speaker 1:
Yeah. If you're not laser focused dialed in well in this self-regulation, like Understanding how to regulate your impulse control. This is, you know, we're rounding out a hundred episodes and the last few episodes we're gonna talk about some of our goals.
Speaker 1:
Yeah and what we want to accomplish. Yeah, and one of them we're gonna talk about specifically our goals for 2024 and and this impulse control right, like I want to snack, yeah, go get a bag of chips, and All that kind of stuff sounds pretty good, I know. But, um, but the self-regulation. Sometimes you just have to literally put on the noise cancellation headphones. Sometimes you literally have to make it to where you cannot easily access.
Speaker 2:
Right, it's way access these things. It's way easier to put the phone in the other room. Then they just sit there listen to it go.
Speaker 1:
Yeah and not answer yeah exactly.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I mean, what the fuck? Yeah how it's just. Sometimes you just have to isolate yourself. Yeah it's way easier putting put the snacks away. Yeah, how am I gonna sit there and stare at a bag of chips on a desk and not eat them? I'm possible, impossible, impossible, absolutely, and I care about those things, I'm still gonna do it you damn right.
Speaker 1:
I think there's a way I don't know how to do it. I wish there was.
Speaker 2:
I don't even like Twinkies. Sorry to cut you off. You don't like, oh yeah, Twinkies.
Speaker 1:
I don't.
Speaker 2:
I don't even care about Twinkies, but if you sat one in front of my desk, it's gone. I Would. I would do pretty good for a while, but I'd eventually reach the point where I'm like I have to eat this fucking thing. So now we're gonna say I wish the iPhone.
Speaker 1:
Maybe you know how to do this or someone knows how to do this, but I wish I could set it to where I can determine what, what contacts Make my phone ring, because I keep my phone on silent, but my wife is the only person who has access to me a hundred percent of the time no one else does and I don't.
Speaker 1:
I don't keep my phone. I keep my phone on silent all day. Yeah, the only time that I keep it off silent and then I check it periodically, mm-hmm. The only time I keep it off silent if, like you know, there's something going on or, like you know, whatever right, yeah, I was traveling or something. Yeah, and, but I wish there was a way, because like everyone's on silent.
Speaker 2:
But you know, my wife, yeah, I don't know. It's got to be possible, got to be.
Speaker 1:
All right, what's next, bro? What's four?
Speaker 2:
out of five Incorporating physical activity. This is so big yeah, this is huge. Physical restlessness and hyperactivity are common ADHD symptoms and that disrupt focus.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so physical restlessness and hyperactivity, what I say, that, oh, but that's like like when you just feel like antsy. Yes, it's hard to focus. Yeah, oh yeah and that's usually, if you like. When you never exercise, you just feel like shit all the time. But when you start exercising and then you go like three or four days without exercise and that's when you really feel it Awful and you're like I got to move.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I'm dying. Move. It literally feels like you're dying.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, you just you just feel like you just want to do us restlessness Yep, just just tenseness. Yep, you just got a stretch. You got to run, move, punch, do somersaults, car wheels, hell yeah, flip shit over, break stuff.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, smash things, smash it, destruction. No, exercise, no, it's absolutely true. Yeah, when I, it's about two days, three days maybe. Yeah, if I'm not exercising at all, yeah, I feel awful.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and I can't focus.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I've literally can't do shit. It almost is like debilitating. Yeah, I Don't know that might be an extreme word, but not really. Yeah, because you go from feeling great to just worthless.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, you know what I've. You know what I think is true. What's that? This phrase? I've never heard this before. I just made this up. Okay, you ready? Yeah, physical activity is the lube for the brain to run smooth oh Gotta, grease them wheels right. And it's based on everything we've read over the past hundred episodes. It is true exercise it helps the brain function better. It helps the neurotransmitters transmit better, right?
Speaker 2:
You've got the metabolic waste in your body. Yep, your lymphatic system does not have a pump. Yeah, so you got to move to reduce the metabolic waste. Yeah and then it also releases the endorphins and yada, yada, yada. You less stress, whatever yeah. It is what it is, but it helps you focus.
Speaker 1:
Yep Lube that brain up exercise. Last but not least, of course, as always, mentioned again nutritional considerations.
Speaker 2:
So yeah, this is true. Okay, speaking from experience again, as we try to do yeah, there was one Holiday season. You know I'm an adult. At this point I'm eating absurd amount of cookies.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it's Christmas.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you know, I think mom gave me a bag and I'm, so I'm eating, fucking, you know whatever.
Speaker 1:
Cookies. All our mom gave you a bag of crack bag of crack.
Speaker 2:
So I Felt like shit. Yeah it's just too much sugar, yeah, and I couldn't focus. I got so like foggy and I think it's from the sugar feeding the bacteria and your gut or whatever the wrong.
Speaker 2:
Not necessarily wrong, but it was an imbalance. All right. All right, your body's you're just not meant to eat an absurd amount of white sugar. No, it's just plain and simple. Yeah, and maybe it affects me more than others. Maybe I'm sensitive, oh, maybe. Whatever the point is, it doesn't matter. I felt like shit and I could not focus. I feel like I could barely work out any kind of mental problem in my head. Yeah, it was like walking through Literally a haze. I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 2:
Yeah so, yes, you have to consider your nutritional environment.
Speaker 1:
Yeah Well, I'm gonna refer to the book again because it's so fresh, but hacking the American mind. What they say? Sugar is a toxic chemical, so imagine that it provides no nutritional value. Yeah we can survive without it. I'm not talking about natural sugars and fruit, right, talking about man-made process sugars.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, because when they run and I'm saying this wrong because I just heard it the other day but when they, when they go through the processing of the sugar, they actually unbind All of the nutritional value, and so therefore there's zero nutritional value and and it's not like it's definitely not healthy for us. Our brain freaks out, body freaks out over it. Mm-hmm and, but for some reason it has Not been classified like that of caffeine and alcohol.
Speaker 2:
Imagine that it's almost like someone's making a lot of money off of it. Yeah. So less sugar more focus, right, and that's not just sugar. You know if I'm eating times in my life where I was a stoner. Yeah, you know, and you eat Taco Bell. Whatever I'm trying to rip on Taco Bell, but yeah, two in the morning, you know you're doing things like that. Yeah you're Indiscriminately Eating trash whenever you want. Yeah, it will affect your mental clarity. Yeah, just plain. And simple.
Speaker 1:
There's a few times I've done seven to ten day fast Mm-hmm, not a lot, but a few times where I've made it pretty much through the whole thing and I would do a water fast and then a juice fast. So just fresh raw juices and day four and five, the clarity, the fog just lifts. It's insane, yeah, radical difference. And also, our bodies just requires energy to even process food and if you think about it, we're just constantly processing food.
Speaker 2:
That's why eating all the time is not Giving you energy. Yeah, yeah, it's like that's what's to eat all the time. Yeah, that's why I always wondered why the the snacking thing. That just felt like bullshit to me. Yeah you know, some people have like all. Instead of three big meals, I'm gonna eat seven tiny meals. Yeah, your body's always digesting food.
Speaker 1:
I think that's fine if you're like out in the wilderness and you eat like four blackberries.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, but that's probably different than like, different than like, four Party-sized bags of LMS.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, yeah so yeah absolutely, so that makes sense. So, yeah, I mean these are very practical. But if you have extreme restless mind or if you've even been diagnosed with ADHD, really focus on those time and task management Skills and supports. I like the timer you know they have those for like the super creative things where you can set like apps on your Chrome extensions to where it's like, after 45 minutes literally your computer just goes to black and you can't do anything on it for five minutes.
Speaker 1:
So they have a lot of guides out there, a lot of things you can do if you need help you. There's some things out there that will force Force the help on you. Yeah, force the help on you really consider that environment. You know what environment are you in. Is it distracting you?
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
I, I know we went from, you know, work at the office and then work from home. And then COVID hit and everyone worked from home and now everyone's like everyone's got to come back to the office. I like a hybrid approach.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
I like a couple days in the office, a couple days at home, because at home you're gonna get a lot of those just grind tasks done, mm-hmm, no distractions, unless your home is a distracting environment. But you know what I mean. Being in a very Siloed, non distracting environment for a couple days a week is nice to get those tasks done, and then being around people, because the energy of people, the you know, collaboration, like I said, what I have, of course, but be very, very conscious of your environment. And then that mindfulness and self-regulation, man, and then physical activity and nutrition, talk about it every freaking, freaking episode but yeah, I mean think about there's a lot of office situations where they're not.
Speaker 2:
that's all backwards, it's all about you've got the snacks, the sugar on the desk. You're not exercising and everyone's distracting you and your phones going off.
Speaker 1:
What are you?
Speaker 2:
getting done. Yeah, it's a very expensive eight hours to do 40 minutes worth of work.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and everyone's stressed out because they don't have enough time and people are having to get to the office. You know, your office is not efficient when people have to get there earlier or leave late to get stuff done. Yeah, I Think I want to do that. I Think that's a service I want to provide as a consultant the office audit. Yeah, the energy management and efficiency Office environment.
Speaker 2:
I'm trying to think of a clever name for your business that sounds really fun. It does sound fun. Maybe a branch of your consulting.
Speaker 1:
I could have every manager Write down every time they're distracted in the day.
Speaker 2:
They would spend the whole day writing down what they're getting distracted.
Speaker 1:
You know, every Asshole dickhead manager would write I'm distracted, writing down why I'm distracted.
Speaker 2:
Definitely someone would be writing that yeah, sweet bro. That's it, man. I think we're done here.
