Last week I was talking to a woman who runs a home-based business about her frustrations getting organized with ADHD.
Her business is stuck. She’s afraid to take on more customers because her office is so disorganized she struggles to help the customers she already has.
Her personal life is stuck. Her house is so cluttered she can’t have friends over.
Chaos and tension rule her family. She’s sick of her husband’s snide comments, and she’s convinced she’s setting a bad example for her daughters.
Her self-esteem is through the toilet. It’s hard to feel good about yourself when everywhere you turn your life is out of control.
She’s desperate to learn how to get organized with ADHD once and for all.
She’s tried getting organized before.
Last year she hired a professional organizer. That helped a bit, except she still had to go through the boxes the organizer left for her to sort. Also, the organizing systems were too complicated for an ADHD adult to maintain.
She signed up for FlyLady. The problem was there were too many emails. Plus, it seemed designed more for women who weren’t quite as busy as she was.
All this effort and she’s still disorganized. She’s still confused about what to get rid of and where to put what she keeps.
She’s losing hope. Will she every have control over her life?
Here’s the thing about getting organized with ADHD…
You’ve got to have a system that works for you over the long haul.
Otherwise, the clutter will just return and you’ll be right back where you started.
The discouraging clutter and debilitating chaos will return.
The trick is to get an organizing system practical enough so you can stay organized day after day for the rest of your life.
You’re busy. I get it.
But if you are going to spend effort getting organized you might as well do it the right way.
So you can stay organized. ADHD or not. So friends or clients can drop by unannounced. So you can find what you need when you need it without a hectic search.
Strangely, I’ve heard people declare that this time they’re going to get organized… and then they set up a system so complicated it’s impossible to keep up.
Force of habit, I think.
The good new is, I have a better solution for making sure they keep their eyes on the prize – an ADHD organizing system that will last the rest of their lives.
That’s what you want. No?
Are you happy with your organizing system? Or are you ready for another, easier way?
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