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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
The timer you will actually use is the one that takes two seconds. A dial you twist beats an app with four taps, every time, whatever the app can do.
Keep a cheap kitchen timer where you work and another where you get ready. If speaking to a smart speaker is quicker for you, use that instead.…
If you have ten minutes and the episode is forty, the moment to act is before it starts. Stopping halfway is a much harder ask than never beginning.
This is worth knowing about yourself without shame: once you are inside something absorbing, the pull to stay is enormous and the part of you that…
Almost everyone has an alarm to get up and almost nobody has one to go to bed, which is odd, because bedtime is the one with nothing else pushing on it.
Set it for half an hour before you want to be asleep, so it catches the start of the wind down rather than the end. Expect to ignore it for the first…
You do not have to agree that it will take longer. Add the extra time anyway and let the week prove you right or wrong. If you finish early, you have a spare twenty minutes, which is not a punishment.
This matters because the felt sense of duration is stubborn, and waiting until it corrects itself means waiting a long while. So treat the padding as…
For a lot of people with ADHD there are only two times: now, and not now. A deadline on Thursday and one six months out sit in the same box until the day they suddenly become today.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
This is worth knowing because it explains why being told the date again does nothing. You knew the date. What was missing was the sense of it coming…