A crucial part of adult ADHD time management is actually knowing what time it is. Time is something that we often need to have a sense of: it helps us to orient ourselves within our day. Is it time to get up, to get dinner ready, to get back to work, to start winding down? Who knows? I do, now,  because of clocks.

Sometimes you have a little task you want to do...but you put it off day after day after day...and then when you finally do it, it takes 5 minutes, leaving you to wonder why you wasted all that energy feeling bad about procrastinating on it. Using this technique, I get to jump to the 'DONE' state on that task without even having to procrastinate for weeks!

Why do I use timers? Because they focus my brain, allow me to get started, and assure me that soon I’ll be able to stop if I want. They create a container that holds my attention, letting me move forward and keeping procrastination at bay. Here’s some ways to use timers to help adult ADHD.