Well, welcome back everybody to the pursuit of purpose podcast. It is your host, Melissa, and I am so excited to be on the mic again today with you. So excited. So grateful that you are tuning in today. So thank you for listening to the podcast. It means the world to me to always hear how stuff's resonating with you guys, what you're liking, what's helping you.

So thank you for always giving me that feedback. Honestly, I never thought the words of affirmation were really my love language, but when it comes to this work, honestly, I don't know. It means the whole world. And, you know, I want to know that what I'm doing here is helping you step into, you know, your purpose, your calling, and.

Helping you become the best person that you dream of being. So it means the world to me when you guys share that. And I really do hope that every week, you know, whatever it is that I'm bringing to you is helpful for you and just guiding you in the path that you're taking. So that's my heart oozing and giving you a hug.

through the airwaves for today. Today's episode is going to be, I always say short and spicy and then it ends up being like 25 minutes. Maybe that's my version of short. I'm not really sure, but we'll see what it is. But it's concentrated bulletproof list that I have been thinking about In the past little bit, just, I think I was talking about this on last week's episode a little bit, but I've been in one place for more of the time and this fall so far.

And what that's allowed me to do is kind of create a little bit more of a routine, but I also showed on last week's episode that like, I'm someone who having a really strict routine is hard for me, but I need routine to function as a human. So it's like, uh, Catch 22 there. So today's episode is definitely from my experience, from things I've tried again, and really what I think works.

So I am sharing seven proven ADHD productivity hacks to help you get shit done. So I'm someone who. Not until recently would have self proclaimed myself to be ADHD, but I am learning very quickly in the last couple of years that I'm definitely that. And so, when I look at the things that helped me really be productive or also the things that hold me back from doing that, all the, all the stars align to say, yeah, girl, you, you have this.

And you know what? We're de stigmatizing everything, including. ADHD, including mental health. And yeah, it's not something that I think holds someone back. But I think people that have have this and struggle with this or, you know, have to learn how to manage it and deal with it, there's so much creative power in those that have ADHD or, or something along those lines.

And the thing is, is like, how do, how can we harness that like, pew, pew, pew, pew, of our brains going off in a way that it's like, okay, wrangle you back in, let's get something done, but also without quashing that creative spark and all of those juices flying around. Juices? No, juices aren't flying around.

Ideas. It's late guys, it's late. If you are not someone that identifies as that, Identifies? Is that the proper word? Is diagnosed with that? I don't know. If you are not someone who is ADHD, but you are still looking for productivity hacks that can really, help you get stuff done, this list is completely still relevant for you.

Like all these things on here, I think are so good for anybody just trying to stay aligned to the goals that they have and that they're doing without, you know, rigor and without force and without hustle. That was actually what I was going to title. This was, you know, How to get shit done without the hustle.

So it's gonna give you a little bit of both here today. But yeah, in the last little bit I really had to apply these skills because stepping back into like more of a day to day It's a bit the same and there's stuff that I really, I'm really passionate about and getting, getting done things. I'm setting up for obviously the podcast, the business, supporting my clients, all this, all this good stuff.

I have a lot of goals towards for the rest of the year and the last few months we have. So yeah, all of these things are really supporting me. So I'm going to jump right into it off the bat here. So number one, how many did I say there was seven. So number one is clearing out the distractions. This may seem like a given, but I don't know how many of us actually do it that often.

Like if you, for example, sit down and you need to, I don't know, write a sales page or something. I don't know. Like if you're a business owner, entrepreneur, you're writing a sales page or maybe like a client contract, something like that. And then you end up on Tik TOK and you're like, Oh, well, no, this is okay.

Because I need to also post social media. And then. You know, someone calls you about a email that you forgot to send them and like your brain just keeps switching from thing to thing to thing to thing. All of these distractions we need to eliminate so that our focus can really be honed in on one thing at a time.

I always define myself as a multitasker. I think that multitasker is like a cuss word now, honestly. I'm trying to expel it from my world because I don't want to be a multitasker. I want to be a single tasker smasher. Like I can just nail a single task and then move on to the next. Because when we multitask, we are like tab switching between everything and all those little distractions are throwing us off.

So think of things like obviously your phone Putting that in a completely different place. I honestly sometimes put it in a completely different floor of my house. Like, I've tried to throw it on a bed or like on the floor of the room I'm working in and somehow that bloody little device ends up back in my hands.

It's like I blacked out and picked it up. I'm not really sure. So phone, different floor, you know, other people, like other people can be distractions to us too. So are you in an environment where a lot of people are talking and, you know, They like, you're coming up to say hi to you. I found that was a big struggle for me when I, whenever I worked at the office and my corporate job, like I couldn't function.

You know, I saw someone eating something. I'm like, Ooh, what's that? So depending on who you are, how you work, people can be a big distraction. Noises like things that. You just notice you want everything to kind of like fade out so you can if you're someone with ADHD like you can really hyper focus down in on what you're doing and everything else becomes a blur.

Temptations also anything that like tempts you. For me that's extra tabs on my computer, like I have to shut down Windows because those tabs will distract me from what I'm doing because I'll be like, ooh, I needed to do that thing and completely forget what it was I was doing, or just. avoid what I was doing and flip to the next thing.

It could be food as well. It seems like a really random one, but you know, if I have snacks out in the kitchen, I'll use that as a way to distract myself from what I'm doing and avoid it. So you can, if you can limit your distractions, we're not saying for, you know, the whole day, because we're going to give ourselves breaks.