The ADHD Morning Routine that ACTUALLY Works! 🔥 

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For someone with adhd this video took a veryyyyy long time to give the solution

for me, i stopped trying to get up earlier. i buy healthy ready meals for work and take the weeks worth in on monday morning. my work clothes don't require ironing, i have my bag packed and things ready the night before. sometimes i have a thermos of coffee by bedside the night before so i can get caffeine without having to get out of bed and do stuff. it takes me 10 minutes to get out of bed and out the door. then i listen to meditation on the bus. if i wake up earlier, i have embraced the 'hurkle-durkle' - i do wordle/quordle, have my thermos coffee. i have 2 clocks in my bedroom, one in my bathroom that i can see from shower, 2 visible from kitchen, 1 in living room, and i'm planning on getting a big one for my deck (i live in a 1 bed plus study apartmentment). i'm also trying to stop trying to go to bed earlier, because i just end up on my phone, not going to sleep until really late. its better to just accept i'm getting up 'late' (by normal people standards) and go to bed at the appropriate time for that 'late' wake up.

I could tattoo that to-do list on my arm and I'd still forget 🤣🤣

I really enjoy your content! Not just the information about ADHD, but also the effort you put in your videos. All those dynamic changes and short animations simply amaze me :D

It took me two years to stay awake on the train and so sleepy at work till lunch time WOW.

Add one of Antonia’s coachees, I got to beta test this strategy and it’s actually changed my days a lot! There’s still days where I struggle, and not every morning is as motivating or productive, but I’m much more consistent and focused than I used to be 😄

There is no way I'm a needle record player .... I'm a freaking AI music creator that tries to learn without directions but hey it's AI ! So it tries anyway ! 😂🙌🏼

Thank God for ADHD content that makes me feel somewhat normal. At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="240">4:00</a>, you described my day to day for the last 2 months. As a matter of fact, I’m laying in bed watching this video at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="525">8:45</a>am right now lol

Your best weapon is ‘prevention’. Don’t get into the situation where you need to say ‘No’ to goblin and stop them, cause that takes a tons of executive function and energy! - use have to use record player Step 1:- figure out what your brain needs to feel ready for the day. Step 2:- take thinking out of it - Make little instruction manual, use an app, checklist or whiteboard Step 3:- take the timing out of it - Use your timer or manual time speaking something.

Your Content is Great 🔥🙌🏻

Thanks for the advice! Do any of your clients also have ME/CFS and/or Long Covid? I have both and I have also just been diagnosed with ADHD at 53. Considering that there are so many people with ME/CFS (~1% of the US population) and Long Covid (>100 million world wide) I would guess that there are quite a few of us. Both ME/CFS and Long Covid are brutal illnesses to deal with, and are invisible like ADHD, and we are often dismissed or gaslit by doctors. In hindsight my ADHD has made living with them even harder. Anyway, if you were to make a video about ADHD and chronic illness, I would love to watch it. PS - I also just read that Covid targets dopamine producing neurons in the brain, making them stop growing and producing dopamine. Researchers seem to be focused on if there's some kind of Covid - Parkinson's dopamine connection/risk, but I have been wondering if Covid could exacerbate ADHD. Or if some of the long covid symptoms could have something to do with dopamine ? Probably too simple, Long Covid and ME are super complex, but it might be an aspect of it.

Lovely

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="339">5:39</a> Step 1

I don't have the dominoes. I do a good thing, that means I don't have to do anything else for the rest of the day. They don't build on each other in many people's ADHD, we often don't experience the chain reaction like NTs do. If I have a good morning routine I do literally nothing else all day because it's taken so much effort. I've never, in my life, experienced my brain feeling "ready for the day".

Honestly, the only thing that works for me to actually make mornings a neutral or positive experience is taking my meds an hour and a half before I’m supposed to wake. Maybe it’s because I don’t get enough sleep to wake up feeling ready to get up , but if I got ‘enough’ sleep, I’d have to go to bed not long after dinner every work night and have no life beyond work and my basic needs for most of the week.

Created a manual. Gave up after two days.

Taking a shower first thing in the morning helps

I don't have meds and I'm slowly spiralling into the dark

As a former DJ, I really appreciated the record vs. iPod Ted Talk! 😁 I love your work. I want to be like you when I am a grown-up RU-vidr!

Add one of Antonia’s coachees, I got to beta test this strategy and it’s actually changed my days a lot! There’s still days where I struggle, and not every morning is as motivating or productive, but I’m much more consistent and focused than I used to be 😄