ADHD & Prioritizing: Taming the Overwhelm When Everything Feels Important

Megs delves into the concept of letting go, not just of physical items, but also tasks, expectations, and commitments that overwhelm our daily lives. She shares personal experiences and practical strategies for dealing with prioritization challenges, time blindness, and mental overload that are common for individuals with ADHD. Megs also introduces the idea of a potential organizing tour across the US as she plans to move from Colorado to Massachusetts. She highlights the importance of saying 'no' and reevaluating commitments to make room for decluttering and organizing. The episode wraps up by encouraging listeners to focus on the small steps that lead to achieving larger goals and provides insights for future advocacy in the ADHD community.

01:59 Prioritization and Time Blindness
07:27 The Analogy of Open Browser Tabs
10:13 Mental Overload and Decluttering
17:21 Practical Steps for Decluttering
17:53 The Garden Analogy
21:22 Evaluating Priorities and Saying No
33:54 Final Thoughts and Call to Action

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Welcome back to another episode of organizing an ADHD brain. I'm your host Megs. And I am so happy to be talking to you again about letting go. I told you that this is a topic I could go on and on about. In fact, I could relate it to so many of the things that we handle on a regular basis, Not just the letting go of our stuff, but the letting go of some of the things that we have to do and the things that we think that we need to say yes to and the shoulds and the should nots and the holy smokes, how the heck do we manage a life in this go go go world that we live in? I'm going to keep this trend going over the next couple of months intertwined with some incredible interviews I have coming up here as well. Things like. Digital organizers and networking queens and photography organizers. I've got so much good information to drop for you. The weather out in Colorado is gorgeous today. My husband is outside chatting with our neighbors And the kids are enjoying just being outside and playing together. Before I jump in today, I did want to drop that my husband and I are moving across the country this summer. We're making a move from Colorado to Massachusetts. And we have been playing around with the idea of what if Meg's did an organizing tour across the United States So if that's something that you would be interested in, whether you're a current client of mine, or you're dying to have me come into your home and help you create systems that work for you, shoot me a message at Meg's at organizing and adhdbrain. com. Email me with, where you live, because we're going to be driving from Colorado. To Massachusetts, let me know if that's something that you're interested in doing and we might be able to book a time to chat and see if that's feasible. I'm just playing around with the idea, but I figured I'd put it out there and start having some conversations if some of you are truly interested in having me come by. Okay, so let's jump into this topic today. My goal truly is to help you think about prioritization a little bit better, because with A DHD priorities aren't typically top of mind because everything is a priority. If I have something to do, then I've gotta do everything. Nothing gets prioritized to the front of the line because everything is important unless there's a deadline. And even then we're gonna look for something else to do before we finally complete the thing that is facing us. I also want to give you some perspectives on time blindness and oftentimes what we do to ourselves based on our time blindness, which is actually a part of our executive function deficiency. Super interesting. So I'm going to get into that a little bit and also just understanding releasing the should mentality because so many of us are people pleasers. And we've either been taught to act this way or we felt like it was necessary for us to show up and do everything for everyone else. With that being the case, we feel like we should be doing all of these things. I say this all the time, and I'm going to say it again probably multiple times on this episode. If everything is important, then nothing is important. It took me so long to truly understand what this concept meant For me. But also, I have to repeat it to myself now still, on a regular basis, and create rules to help me understand what I can truly achieve in life. So this has everything to do with letting go because So often, people come to me when they're talking to me about coaching, or even in my community, and they're like, I just don't know where to start. And is this the right time to start? When do I start decluttering? How do I figure out a way to make this all work for me? When at the same time, you're also, and I'm going to speak to the women out there, but I'm sure so many of you men can relate too, but you're managing families and you're figuring out what to cook every single week for dinner and you're figuring out how to keep up with some sort of cleaning schedule, but then you also might work a corporate job. But if you're not working a corporate job, or even if you are, you're trying to figure out how to stay active in your kid's schools. And maybe your kids are neurodivergent just like you. So you're learning how to parent them in a different way than your parents did, because we're trying to break generational curses. But at the same time, you're also taking care of pets and there's gardening. And then how many of you have at least 25 hobbies that you are trying to manage? But with that, how many of you also have just so many little projects sitting around your house waiting to get done? Because You know, you could do it. I often hear people with ADHD described as a jack of all trades, master of none, or as one of my clients likes to say a ham and egger. it's a common new England term for someone who's just happens to be good at a lot of things. what I've noticed is that people with ADHD tend to get good at things pretty quickly. But then we get kind of bored of it. And then we move on to the next thing that's new and exciting can fill our cup up with that being the case. It's so easy for us to adopt more and more because we're excited about doing all these things. I got told in the corporate world that I got too excited about everything. And because I got too excited about everything, I was putting all of my eggs in so many different baskets. It was hard for me to manage my schedule and manage the things that were the most important to me, Now things always got done, but I wanted so much more. I wanted to work on development and I wanted to work on these creative processes that helped us do our job better and I wanted to create different ways that we could communicate interdepartmentally to help us learn how other departments work so that we could be more efficient at our jobs. But I decided that all of that was my job. And it also was a very difficult because there were a lot of people that were my peers that didn't want to do that much, and I didn't understand it. I was like, why don't you want to do all of these things? I now understand a little bit more. So if you're listening to this and you're at the point where you're not ready to drop anything, that's totally okay. I just simply want to give you some perspective on where your priorities might be with ADHD. Because in order for decluttering and organizing to become a top priority for you, you can't say yes to everything, even if you're excited about everything. And I'm not talking just with your schedule, I'm talking with the stuff that you have in your home. If you keep everything and you want to do everything, then it's going to be so hard for you to do anything. Cause there's so much! How do you know when to start? Not only in decluttering, the silly mundane tasks that we don't necessarily want to tackle, but the fun stuff! How do you find your hobbies? How do you even put it away if there's no spot for it? There's so much that comes into play. I want to get really visual with you today, too. having an analogy to attach this to is so helpful. I know that with my brain, I see things very visually as I'm talking to my clients or as, I'm seeing their home. I want to see pictures. I want to see what you're working towards. I not only want to hear you describe it to me, but I start to create a picture of what that looks like in my brain, like visually. I see it. It's very clear to me. so think about it like this. Your brain is like an internet browser with so many different tabs open. I know you've heard this before, right? okay, so I'm thinking about this right now. I'm Googling it. I found the right topic for me. This is what I need here. But. Oh, squirrel, let me open up another browser because I'm interested in this and I need to log in here. So I'm going to open up this and then another browser gets open because the first browser was open and there was just like a pop up thought, right? So now we've got all of these tabs open in our brain, but our working memory is not great. So as we're opening up new tabs, we're forgetting about all those other tabs that are open. They're still open. They're hanging out there. But they're not on the forefront of our mind anymore, because we don't have the capacity to keep everything up there, mulling around all the darn time. so as you're decluttering, you find something that needs to be sewed. Oh, let me put this aside. I'm going to sew that later. And then you're like, I feel like I should keep this, because what if I need it? And so you put it aside. You don't put it in a place that you can find it. You just keep it, because what if you need it one day? You keep that aside too. And then you're like, Oh, this could really use some glue. Let me put this to the side. I'm going to glue that. Oh, my daughter broke her bracelet. I'm going to put this back together. I'm going to find a new string so that I can help her wear it and that way it won't break anymore. so on and so forth. So these are all these like little to do tasks that you're keeping up here. And then you've got all of these other different hobbies in this life that you're trying to manage at the same time. When you have too many tabs open on your browser, your browser actually starts to work a lot slower. it's slower in processing. It starts to lag. And sometimes it'll even crash. And that's what leads us to burnout. We're saying yes to all of these things because we genuinely want to do them, and honestly, we genuinely know that we could be good at so many of the things that we're doing. But we hold on to all of them, thinking that we can do all of them, and when we don't accomplish hardly any of them, we beat ourselves up because we felt like we should have done everything. And so instead of letting go and saying, okay, what are the things that I really want to do, and what are the things that I don't necessarily want to do as much, even though I still want to do them? We just think that we're awful because we haven't been able to accomplish everything. Instead of exiting out of the browser and just deleting all the tabs knowing that we'll be able to come back to it at any time, we keep it open because we're nervous that we might lose those things. We're so used to our brain forgetting things so much that we try to keep all of these things around us to remind us of the things that we genuinely want to do. This is mental overload. No wonder we're so cluttered in our homes, because we can't possibly prioritize this. The only time decluttering and organizing truly becomes a priority is when we realize someone's coming over and we finally get our eyes on this clutter as not just something we can put off, but something we need to take care of. Otherwise, people are going to see who we truly are. But it's not that we're lazy. It's not that, and yes, we may be a little bit disorganized, but truthfully, This comes back to the way that we process things neurologically. But if clutter is never a priority, because you've got all of these other things going on, then how do you make it a priority? How do you delete some of the tabs on your browser so that you can truly start to effectively work in your life and be proud of the things that you're doing? this year, as I'm building this business, and as I'm figuring out what's next, I have so many ideas on what I want to do on a regular basis. And likely, you all have some incredible ideas for me too, like why isn't Meg's doing this? Why isn't Meg's doing this? I ask myself the same questions I'm telling you that because the ideas aren't lacking. But I also know that when I'm trying to get things done, I want to do them really well. And I'm not holding myself back from doing them, but I do want to really hone in on the skills that I have right now and come up with systems and ways to automate these things so that as I'm adding more to my plate, I know what to delegate and what to not. I only know to do this because I've started to manifest and figure out what did these big picture items look like? What are the big things I need to do in order to get there? And what are the tiny actions I can take on a regular basis in order to effectively hit these larger goals? I have practiced through project management in doing this. I also use a project management software for my business, but also this is what I teach people to do when they're organizing. What's the smallest thing you could do to start making progress toward that bigger goal? Let me come back. I'm circling back here because I get lost on tangents and I want to make sure that this is really clear today. I was talking earlier about people not knowing where to start, or how do I even find the time to declutter, I need to be able to take off a week. Okay, so many people tell me they need to just be able to take off like the entire summer so that they can declutter and organize their home. Or, I need to take off a week from work so that I can declutter and organize my home. As if it could happen in a week. What you will find as you're decluttering and organizing your home think about how long it took to get that stuff into your home. Years, lots of years. It could take a lot of time to get that stuff out of your home, especially if you're putting barriers on it leaving. when the clutter becomes so much of an issue that you have no choice but to handle it, that is when you need to start to prioritize it. But what that also means is that you're going to be letting go of some of the other things in your life so that you can live a life with less. You can do it and it starts by doing one thing, and I have a recommendation for you at the end of this podcast, just one thing, one thing that you can start to do now to start to understand how you're living your life and what you could let go of to start to live your life a little bit more effectively and with a little bit more time on your hands. One of the reasons why we continuously say yes to things is not only because we're excited about it, we want to be involved in our kids schools, we want to see more friends, we want to do another activity. Sometimes we don't, but we say yes to it in the moment, now we feel obligated to do it. But we genuinely want to do these things, and because we're time blind, and time blindness. Is a difficulty managing and perceiving time. So that's tied to executive functioning and The ability to plan and organize. I watched a really cool video on time blindness the other day. And there's this adorable couple, they're all over social media, and they talk about time blindness. and they were describing 5 minutes. hey, we have 5 minutes before we leave the house. And the husband asked the wife who has ADHD, he does not. And he said, how much could you do in five minutes? And she's like, oh, quite a bit. I could probably hop in the shower real quick, get dressed, and, we can be on our way. I'll fluff up my hair real quick and it'll be fine. And then he's like, okay, what if I told you that you had 300 seconds before you left the house? And she's like, oh my gosh, that's no time at all. I can't do anything in 300 seconds. so I've been using that in my own life to try to decide how much something is going to take me. I've tried using it with my girls. It's not as effective as it is with me And I think that's because i've had a little bit more practice Perceiving time even though it's still not a forte in my life. I'm not curing adhd. I'm just trying to understand it But when I'm brushing my teeth at night, I go, I'm like, okay, my whole bedtime routine is going to take less than 300 seconds. Can I do that? Yes. when I have to rinse out and recycle the little cat tin from feeding my cat, is that going to take less than 30 seconds? Yes. Can I do it? Okay. Even though I hate it, I don't want to. Those are the things I don't want to do. But because we're bad at perceiving time, it's so easy for us to say yes to all of these things because it doesn't feel like it's much time at all. But what's so interesting about this is it's not only the time on your calendar, oh, it'll take me about an hour to do this. You're still thinking about it in other parts of your world. It'll come up because now it's another thing that you're managing, another responsibility that you have. oh my gosh, I genuinely want to do these things. I'm going to give you another example. In the beginning of the year, I decided I wanted to be way more present in my daughter, who's five, Cora. I wanted to be more present in Cora's classroom in the school. And my husband and I would volunteer for all of their class parties, and that was really fun. And then I was like, maybe I should be involved. I should be helping to plan and prep the party. Maybe I could come up with all these templates and these different things that we could do to make it more efficient and more organized. And as I went through and did this, I realized how much of the mental capacity I was putting into this that I would just wasn't going to be able to sustain. So I did one party with a couple of the other moms. And the next time another party came around, I held myself back and I said, Hey guys, I'm not going to volunteer for the planning and the prep of this party, but I will still help out as a classroom volunteer. And so I'm starting to realize what I can and I cannot handle. But sometimes it's taking action and figuring that out as I go along. you're allowed to do that too, just because you don't know up front, sometimes you need to make mistakes or make, a perceived mistake to understand what's needed of you next. You get to decide. It's not up for me to decide, but it is up to you to figure out what are the most important things that you do and what are the things that you need to start letting go so that you can figure out how to create time for decluttering and organizing because it does take time. And it doesn't have to take a ton of time. It can be very small incremental things that you do each day that can help make a huge difference in your life. But like I said, we genuinely want to say yes to these things. Another beautiful. piece of imagery for you is think about your life as a garden Think about the different flowers that you've handpicked to put in that garden. I love honeysuckles. I think the honeysuckles that I plant are So beautiful. I love the way they climb. I love the way they look when they're climbing up a wall and they create almost this wall of flowers effect. I think it's so cool. I'm really into that. I also have a peony bush that I absolutely love. It's so beautiful and it blooms so big and bright. I get so excited every time I see the buds start to flourish. I also laid some beautiful full green ground cover in my garden and I've got this really cool black mulch that I filled it in with so any of the color that pops through will truly pop. But in order for me to make this garden work, I have to get out there and work on it. And so each and every day as I'm putting effort into each of these flowers, and every year when I'm coming back, they grow bigger and brighter and more beautiful. But as gardens grow, so do weeds. So do different things that I didn't expect to show up. One time I was planting a lilac bush and as I was digging there were these really disgusting, weird larva worm things that I found in the dirt. And my husband and I started looking it up and I thought that we were going to have to fight this disease that was happening in our garden. We were fine. But, we had to dispose of them and I learned a little bit more. and part of it is because now we're taking care of a tree. We've added that to the repertoire of our garden. But weeds keep coming up and sometimes my dogs run through the garden and now I have to clean that up. think about your hobbies and your passions as the flowers in the garden, and then the unnecessary obligations and clutter are the weeds, but it's important that you identify what are the flowers of your life and what are the weeds. Now some weeds, like doing the dishes, are unable to be plucked and thrown away forever. Those are the things of our life that we must do unless you are fortunate enough to be able to hire someone to clean your dishes for you every single night. Think about this analogy as, What are the things that I truly want to nourish? Because those are the things that are going to continue to grow just like yourself. Actually taking care of yourself when you take care of yourself on a regular basis, you're less likely to get burnt out. And I'm not just talking about going to the spa for the day. I'm talking about, remembering to take a deep breath and to be grateful for what you have and to be able to. Even do your skincare routine, anything, these small little things add up to so much when you focus on that and you are truly a flower in your life. So something to start to explore, even if you don't implement it right away, is how do you weed out the unnecessary stuff in your life that is not bringing you joy and not helping you achieve so much of what you want in life. It's so important that we start to understand how we can say no to the things that truly aren't filling us up on a regular basis. It doesn't mean that you say no all of the time, but it's learning how to start to say no in a way that could work for you so that you can prioritize the things that you truly want to get done. Think about yourself 10 years from now. Do they have a decluttered home? how's their face looked? are they consistent with their skincare routine or are they continuously coming back to it? How about your garden? What's it look like? So as you're thinking about your future and the different things that you're trying to do and attain and achieve is volunteering all the time going to help you achieve those goals. One thing we had to do over this last year was say no to so many of the extracurricular activities we have had our kids involved in. Previously, I may have talked about this before, but I'm going to talk about it again. part of it was for the budget. It's just it gets more and more expensive to not only buy all the gear that comes along with it, but then, of course, the lessons and then, making sure that we can fit that into our time schedule and with neurodivergent children routines that are different on a regular basis can be very difficult to adhere to. And so over this last year, as we have taken a step back on all these extracurriculars, We have filled up our life so much more in so many different ways. It's been incredibly valuable Not only has it helped us because we're putting that money into a different bucket We're also figuring out How to support them in the different things that they want and desire to do. We're spending more time together. We've spent so much more time together, because we're not constantly rushing to do all of these things, which ultimately burn you out. and I'm not knocking you for doing what you're doing. Please continue. If that is what brings you joy, incredible. And I just want to normalize saying, what if you took a year off? Is that still going to get you to where you're trying to be 10 years from now, or where your kids want to be 10 years from now? You get to evaluate that, and you get to evaluate how that's affecting your life right now. Decluttering your physical space is going to work very similarly. It's likely that you want all of the stuff that you have. Because you brought it into your home for a reason. you want to be able to be good at painting, but also have a box of peacock feathers, just in case I'm winking to the person who knows exactly who I'm talking about in this case. You want to be able to have a costume on hand, Or be the house that has a toy for everyone to play with. You want to have that perfect piece of wood that's gonna fix your project or finish your project and you don't have to go to the store to get it. You want to have every variation of a medium because what if one day you get this incredible inclination to do this? You're not gonna throw away anything that's broken because you can fix it and let me just put it over here and I'll get to it. I really like the way that this piece of clothing fit me 10 years ago, so I'm going to keep it just in case my body ever looks like that again. if we continue to keep all of the things that we think we should in our home and everything is important, then nothing is important. The more clutter you have, the more priorities are taking up your brain space. And the less that gets done because now everything that you're looking at becomes a decision that needs to be made and often one that's way too overwhelming for you to even begin to start. That's okay. It's okay to feel overwhelmed and it's okay to look at a pile of stuff or a doom pile, right? Didn't organize, only moved pile. So many of us have them. It's okay to look at it and just be like, Oh my God, I don't want to begin to tackle that right now. Too many decisions. Yikes. But if you wait until you have more time in your schedule, if you wait until you finally read all of the books, if you wait until you take a week off work and that's the time you're going to do it, if you wait until the summer when the kids are off school, If you wait and you wait before too long, you're going to realize that it's not going to get done, but it is okay to start saying no to some of the things that are not as important as decluttering. so that you can make room for it in your life. Not the stuff, but for letting go of the stuff. Truthfully, we were never meant to be this busy. We really weren't. Our brains were never meant to keep up with this much. So my challenge for you this week, this is an extra thing for you to do, I know, but bear with me, it's gonna help as well. I want you to find one notebook in your house, and do not go buy another notebook, and if you do because you need that dopamine hit, that's fine, but there's likely a blank notebook sitting somewhere in your house, and we're gonna repurpose it. I want you to go and find that notebook and it should be blank, let's start from scratch or pull out the papers that are in there and just get rid of them or recycle and write on it, my to do's or the things that are floating around in my brain, the things that you feel obligated to say yes to, whatever it is. And I want you for the next week to start to write all of the things down that come up. if you are decluttering and a project comes up, write it down. If you are letting go of something, you decide to keep it just in case, write it down. Okay? I'm keeping this just in case, right? Because now that's, it really truly is another to do on your list. Now you've kept it, Write down all of the things that are floating around in your brain. Did you say yes to a coffee date with this person? Put it down. Are you planning to plan your daughter's eighth birthday and go all out? Write it down. How much time is that going to take? Are you moving across the country and now you're trying to say goodbye to all of the friends you've made over the last 10 years of living in Colorado? Write that down. Write down the people who you truly want to see. Am I giving this advice to myself? Maybe. With that in mind, on the other side of this piece of paper, I want you to start writing down the things that you truly love to do. Like gardening, or singing, or things like that. Now, something to support you through this project is go to my website and download the free dopamine menu, because with that, those different hobbies that you're writing down, those are the things that you could do to help you with your focus and motivation. Because when you're doing something that truly brings you joy, things that you could do in 10, 15, 30 minutes. those could help you get the motivation you need to do the things that you don't necessarily want to do. start a decluttering project for 15 minutes or 30 minutes, whatever makes sense for you. I'm not telling you how to do that right now. So go back to one of my previous episodes on how to get started with decluttering and what that looks like and feels like. But it is important for us to let go of not only the stuff that we have, but also the projects and the things we need to add to our to do list. Because one thing isn't a big deal, and that's the only thing technically you're saying yes to in the moment. But that's because it's out of sight, out of mind now. But when you're saying, I'm going to do this later, 20, 30, 40 times, now your to do list has gotten so much longer. And that's not even counting all of the things that you've said yes to adding to your schedule while also taking care of kids while also trying to figure out how to be the best version of yourself. Not only. As you, but as a mom, but as someone who works in the corporate world, wherever you are showing up, there's so much that's now being added to your plate. It's like you're filling up this backpack and you're like, Oh, I'm a mom, I'm a wife, I'm a, I'm an entrepreneur. And then everything else that you say yes to is now getting put in that backpack and there's no more room for it. You have no idea where to find anything in this backpack because it's so chock full. It's so heavy on your back, but you feel like you can't take anything out because it all feels so important. When everything is important, nothing is important. We got to take some stuff out of the backpack and in order to take some of the stuff out of the backpack, we've got to say no to some things. But in order for you to start saying no, you've got to understand what you're prioritizing. And part of that just comes from brain dumping it all out. And I'm not saying make a to do list for the day. I'm talking like, Over the next week, what are the things that are pulling you from doing all the things that you truly want? Okay, so that is what I want you to take away from this. Start to write down What are the things that you are genuinely doing on a regular basis that are taking so much of your mental energy? And can you truly let something go so that you can make decluttering and organizing Something that is a regular occurrence in your life because that's what makes all the difference is knowing that okay I'm making another step in the direction of getting more organized and Decluttering my home so that I can live a more peaceful life today, and this is what I'm doing about it. I can't remember if I said this earlier, so I'm gonna say it now. When I have a bunch of tabs open on my browser, Instead of leaving them there and saving them for later, I just exit out. At this point, I have gotten confident enough and I trust myself to know That if I close it out, I will be okay. And I will always be able to reopen a browser, and most things are saved nowadays. Anyways, if there's something that is truly that important, you'll be able to get it again. You are allowed to make changes. You don't have to live with everything that you're living with right now. We've trained ourselves to, to know that we could get anything off of Amazon. We've trained ourselves to know that we could go to our subscription base and we could put any of those channels on because we're probably subscribed to all of them. Over the last couple months, my husband and I cancelled Amazon. We've been without it for two months now, and we've been fine. I tried doing it last year, and it was more difficult last year, but I can't put a finger on why. I think it was because we had subscriptions connected, and then I didn't, I wasn't ready to say goodbye to them. I didn't have a lot of the tools that I have now to be able to say, I don't need those anymore. Or this decision isn't forever. It's not permanent. Just because I'm saying no to it now doesn't mean I can't get it in the future. It just means I don't have it right now, which means I'm thinking a little bit more purposefully about the different decisions on the things that I'm purchasing in my life. we deleted Disney plus for a little bit too. and Cora, again, my five year old was like, I don't understand. We don't have Bluey. Why don't we have Bluey, right? We love a little Bluey in our household if you've never watched it, even as an adult. There's some beautiful messaging in there. But, we just talked about it's not a forever thing. We're just choosing to spend our money in different places right now. And there's nothing wrong with that. Just because you don't have everything doesn't mean that you're not fully equipped to handle life. we just as a society have been trained to have everything. It's so easy to go and buy these things that we need so that we can have it. I've figured out where I want to spend my money so that I don't feel obligated to spend my money in so many other places. I'm so much more purposeful about what I buy because I also know what I have. It's very easy for me to see clearly what's available and what's not. So that way when I am making a purchasing decision, it is more about like, well, I don't have this. Do I really need it? I also recently deleted Facebook. I realized that it was taking up a lot of my time. And that comes back to our time blindness. We can oftentimes get so distracted by our phones. That we forget that real life even exists because it's so easy to escape on our phones. I can say that I, I'm such a culprit of being on my phone too much and not truly doing the work that I want to be doing. So I, I challenged you all about two weeks ago to use the dopamine menu to start to do things that fill up your cup that aren't your phone. So I'm going to encourage you to do that again. So here are some ways that you can continue to stay in touch with me. Go to my website, organizinganadhdbrain. com. There's a banner that says, get your free download. It'll take you to the dopamine menu, tell you all the cool things it does. You not only get the dopamine menu, but also a video of me walking you through how to use that. Put it on your fridge. When you sign up, you'll get my emails on a weekly basis. I'm always keeping you up to date with what's going on in the organizing and ADHD brain community. And that's another way to work with me is go to. OrganizinganADHDbrain dot com, forward slash community. And there you can sign up for the Organizing an ADHD Brain community. We meet monthly, not only doing body doubling sessions, decluttering sessions, but also group coaching to support ourselves through getting decluttered and more organized. We're always talking about some really amazing stuff. Sometimes we're super deep, sometimes we're more surface level. But it's always a really good time and everything's recorded so you can keep coming back for more. That's 27 a month. It's super affordable if you need a little bit more accountability. And then if you're stuck, if you're listening to the podcast, If you've literally tried so many decluttering and organizing stuff, and it's just not working, and you feel like you need more guided support, book a call with me. You can go to my website, organizingandadhdbrain. com, and there's, A booking button right on the front page or go to the show notes below and you can get on my calendar that way as well. Right now I only have one spot left in the month of March. So if you're ready to get started for the month of April, be sure to book a call sooner rather than later because I will start to fill up a wait list. My goal is to only be working with eight people at the most at any given time because I dedicate so much time and energy to my clients. So that's really important to me. Regardless, join the community. I'd love to see you there. Oh, and don't forget, I asked you at the beginning. If you want me to stop by on my way from Colorado to Massachusetts to help you declutter and organize your home, I'd be so happy to have a conversation with you. All you need to do is email me at megs at organizinganadhdbrain. com, and I'd be so happy to chat with you more to see if this is something that's feasible and something that I do. I just need to be having conversations with people to discover what are some of those Things that you would expect to get done as I'm driving across the country, and some of the things that would need a little bit more time, right? I have some really cool ideas and I'm excited to see If it's feasible, if it's realistic or not. So it's out there in the universe and let's see what y'all think about it. I've held myself back from getting political on this podcast and this podcast will remain about organizing an ADHD. what's also important to remember is that This world is political. Everything that we do, we eat, sleep, drink, with the homes that we buy. ADHD specifically has become more and more politicized as we move into the year 2025. And so if there are ways to get involved, especially when it comes to ADHD, and ways to advocate for our community, I will be mentioning it in the podcast because it feels like we're drinking through a fire hose sometimes when it comes to All the information that not only we get through social media, but also through all the different media platforms that are feeding us the news. and so many of the people I have been speaking to, not only my clients, but also my neighbors and, people I meet on the street, they don't know where to start as far as advocating for themselves and advocating for their communities and their kids and their families and what it truly looks like to be an American nowadays. with an ADHD brain, you're different. And because you're different, you're cool. Being different is incredible. Whether you are black, white, Mexican, I don't care. Your differences should be celebrated because they help us grow and learn new things that help us be better humans in this world. I'm so excited to continue to come to you with more about letting go and understanding how you can have more in this world by having less. Truly, there's so much more to live for than the stuff that we buy, and the stuff that we have, or the to do lists that are continuously getting longer and longer. I hope you're having an incredible week, and I will see you next week.