Reasons why ADHD adults need downtime to be productive

People suffering from ADHD are great at hyper focusing. We can also do it for hours, days, or months, depending on how interesting and indulging the project is. During that particular period of time we don’t need food, water, sleep, or hygiene though anybody be it our friends and family . It feels nice to hyper focus when something seemingly normal like focus is actually difficult to come by. What we don’t realize is that, for long periods of time, busting our butts means busting our brains cells . And People with ADHD need downtime while working for a long time to be more productive . We need self time.

All of us need time to process things in our brain that we haven’t had time to do in our busy schedule . As people don’t process as it’s happening. We all have to break it all down later when we can give the particular task our undivided attention. 

When people are in tune with the needs of the brain, they will Take some time to sit on the couch and look out the window, sometimes it can go for an hour or more.  And when the relaxing period is over the people feel less anxious and more focused. Basically, this  just make a bunch of room in the brain to allow things to settle down nicely. This gives  a sense of being more on top of things.

WHAT DOES DOWNTIME actually LOOKS LIKE FOR ADHD ADULTS?

Engaging in downtime may take a little bit of more work for adults having ADHD . It is Because the true downtime is actually doing a whole lot of nothing. But, as you know and we have noted above, a persons ADHD brain is always scanning the environment to get the required stimulation it needs. So, it may seem like downtime is out of there reach.

But actually It’s not.

It’s just that you’ll need to make sure your brain gets the enough of stimulation. Otherwise, you’ll be in a constant fight with your brain. And you might end up engaged in activities that aren’t important to you  for being busy – or for the worse default to an activity that gets you in trouble.

To avoid either of these situations and allow your ADHD brain to rest, you can try:

• Having mindless walks
• Spend time with your loved ones
• Physical activity
• Healthy diet
• Sound sleep
• Go out in nature

Till now What have you tried or what can you think of that allows your brain to rest calmly  and feel stimulated enough

Tips to slow down

Make a game  out of your work. 

If you are not able to focus on a task, it’s probably because it’s a bit more mundane and fills you with little interest. People with ADHD tend to be more curious han hyperactive. We more of love novelty and learning new things.

We are fully aware that life has its boring moments. That’s why try to come up with a trick to get  through the humdrum tasks that mind doesn’t want to focus on. You can find the hacks to  find something interesting while doing monotonous tasks. You might also need to learn something new ever time in order to implement a new system, which will please the reward center of your brain cells, too.

Free yourself to move around while working with a standing desk

People often have a  long working days on film sets where we’re constantly moving and on the go. That type of environment naturally feeds into this need to move, and people find that we are laser-focused throughout the day.

Try to fill some free time with sprints

This tip is a little of an extension of the standing hack.

If you’re feeling fidgety and you are not able to focus on the task at hand, it might be worth for you to settle work aside and going for a quick jog.

Write all those ideas down for later

Sometimes, your brain may come up with the most creative ideas at the most inconvenient times.

You can pin down the idea somewhere else and save it for later use as This can distracts you to no extent. 

Find your own personal productivity music

If people listen to music with lyrics, they are unable to focus on whatever they are doing and just end up singing along. While enjoyable, we’ve realized music with lyrics isn’t helpful for the focus.

If you are stressed or not in a good mood you can listen to a calming music which will surely calm you down