hello brains for this video i partnered
with o-waves which is an
incredibly adhd friendly app that helps
you plan your day
which is something that a lot of us i
think need right now
it can be a really big challenge for
adhd brains to have their routines
disrupted
every time our routines get disrupted it
makes it just a little bit harder to
make sure that we are prioritizing
because our brains have difficulty with
planning and prioritizing and so if our
routines that we put in place to support
us
gets disrupted like it does with kovid
it's really natural for us to stop
taking care of ourselves as well or
not make progress toward things that are
important to us because they don't have
a place in our day
and if we don't have enough external
structure you know if we're not going to
work or going to school
we don't have those things built in
anymore and so we have to build them
back in for ourselves
if you don't have a lot of structure to
your day right now i really encourage
you to find
a way to create some structure for
yourself and
that might feel kind of arbitrary at
first but if you get
some sort of accountability if you tell
somebody hey this is what i'm doing
can you check in on me um or if you uh
get somebody else to do it with you you
know even if it's over skype or
zoom or whatever there are obviously a
lot of ways to structure your day
you can do it by time blocking things
out in google calendar
you can you know have your list our
research consultant patrick lecount
once gave me some of the best advice i'd
ever gotten is an adhd brain which is
don't try and get everything done during
a day figure out the three things that
if you get those things done
you'll feel good about yourself you'll
feel like yeah that day
went well there was this demonstration
that i saw once when i was a kid where
there was
a jar and then there was rocks and then
there were smaller rocks and then there
was sand
and the teacher put the sand in the jar
first and then he put the little rocks
in the jar and then he put the big rocks
and the big rocks didn't fit there
wasn't enough space
and so he dumps everything out again and
we're like well yeah like it's too much
stuff
but then he does it again and he puts
the big rocks in first
and then the small rocks and then the
sand and now everything fits
and it blew my mind i remember as a kid
but life is kind of like that
for us as adults too even if you don't
schedule out your whole day
you put those big rocks in first and
then your day has a little bit of more
of a shape to it
right now i'm really liking this app o
waves because
it doesn't look like a calendar at all
which my brain likes
i don't have the same resistance to a
waves as i do to looking at a calendar
because i don't have a negative
association with it it's just cool and
pretty
and it's color coded and it's really
easy to rearrange things
which i like it's what i used personally
when i came out to seattle and like was
ready to put my routines into place and
like get my systems going and
because covid hit it just kind of
disrupted everything and so having this
app to help me
fill in the big rocks right like to help
me go okay this part of my day is gonna
be
work this part of my day i'm gonna make
sure that i eat here's where i
take clothes for a walk after work and
that's kind of my transition time i'm
not going to stick to something
perfectly i'm okay with that
but just having some sense of structure
to my day was really helpful for me
you can choose whether you want it to
remind you right when it's time to
switch or if you want a bit of a heads
up
sometimes for some tasks i make sure it
tells me 10 minutes ahead of time so i
can kind of wrap things up
i've actually paired it with my apple
watch which i got literally because of
this app
because i tried it out with my friend
danny donovan and she said that it pairs
really well with the apple watch and so
i got the apple watch um this was
definitely an impulse buy but i really
like it i like the way it integrates
it's great because instead of getting
distracted by my phone picking it up and
seeing what i need to do next
i just get a buzz on my wrist when it's
time to switch and it's really easy for
me to just tell what i've got going on
that day
if you've tried o-waves before there is
a new feature now which i think is
really cool it's called my moai
and it's kind of a social aspect to it
you can see your friends days which
is nice because there's kind of a gentle
accountability there
danny and i both tried it and so i could
see where she was at in her day and she
could see where i was at in mine and
it encouraged me to make sure that mine
was accurate and up to date
it also honestly made me feel a little
closer to her
which right now is really important
everybody feels kind of far away and so
it's nice to feel like you're together
even when you're not another cool thing
with mimo i is it will recommend
other people too so you can kind of see
what these people do for a living and
what their day looks like and you can
kind of take some inspiration from other
people which i think is really cool
although o waves itself doesn't look
like a calendar it can actually
integrate
with a calendar so my appointments still
show up in my day
which is super cool if you're interested
in trying it i'd be really curious to
know what you think
all the information for how to download
the app is in the description below
unfortunately right now the app is not
available for android users i'm sorry
it's apple peeps only
and this version with my moai actually
won't be officially released until the
end of october but if you want to try it
before then you can go to owaves.com
how to adhd download apple's beta
testing software test flight and you'll
get exclusive access to be one of the
first
thousand people in the world to get to
try this new feature
mime away however you plan your day i do
think it's important to like
plan it somewhat i think adhders
definitely need to be flexible with
their schedules because things change or
we don't feel like we're in the mood for
it or our brains just
straight up rebel and are like i'm not
doing this right now so it's also
important to like have
the ability to change that plan but
having some sense of like
what your day is going to look like and
making sure that you're putting
in the pieces that are important to you
i think it's really critical
and it's the only reason that this
channel exists is at you know when i
started it i was like okay
like those are my big rocks whatever
else comes up i know that for
three hours a day like i'm gonna be
working on the channel you know i'm
gonna be researching or writing or
rewriting or shooting or whatever
and i just built that into my day from
the get-go other things have been
incredibly important to me
equally important to me and just haven't
gotten done which is why i own a guitar
that i still can't play
and i've been trying for probably 20
years
it's important to me but until i started
building in time for it into my day
it just wasn't happening because other
stuff was coming up and once you have
some structure once you have those big
rocks in there then it's easier to
fill out the rest of your day and not
have it feel like it's all just blending
together i hope you found this video
useful whether you use o-waves or a
different way to add some structure to
your day or if you have a different way
of planning your day that you love
let us know in the comments below so we
can all learn from each other about
different tools that help us work with
our brains not against them thank you to
o-waves for sponsoring this video
thank you to my brain advocates and all
my patreon brains for supporting every
video so that i can partner with only
brands that i believe in thanks for
watching hope you find this tool helpful
bye brains hello brains
i yep water is a good idea cool we're
gonna we're gonna do the water thing
because of covid probably at least some
of our routines have been disrupted
and that can be a problem for those of
us yeah
what because of kovid probably at least
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why do you keep talking to me i'm still
figuring out my apple watch
let me actually show you how it works so
uh that's the apple watch okay let me
actually show you how it works
for this episode i partnered with
o-waves an incredibly adhd friendly app
that helps us plan our day
which i think is probably something a
lot of us need right now
including my best friend who i am
definitely sending this to
okay we're done shooting
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