I don’t know if it’s an ADHD thing for me or some undiagnosed Autism thing but, for part of my life I used to make lists to try and prevent procrastination spirals. And the lists would get too big and I would fail them as the backlog grew. It makes me very wary of planning to this day. Has anyone else dealt with this in such a context?
Yes, and in precisely that context.
Listing is essential because my ADHD-ass autistic brain leaks like a sieve, but doing a list is also a task and why would I give myself an extra task to update a list when I could just do the task?
Proceed directly to the task disappearing from my short-term memory and only getting started when someone asks why I haven’t finished it yet (if at all).
I kind of have that problem in that if I’m doing multiple tasks at my work where I’m moving all over the place, I’ll probably forget one of them. Usually I’m pretty good at remembering stuff. Though in all honesty my mind just doesn’t feel as “sharp” as it used to a decade ago.