35 AuDHD Change Protocols for Last-Minute Changes at Work

35 AuDHD Change Protocols for Last-Minute Changes at Work

The 4pm email that changes tomorrow

The email lands at ten to four. The deadline moved, the brief changed, the thing you spent Tuesday on is now the wrong thing. You reply immediately, cancel three things, start over — and by Friday half of it has changed back.

This is 35 things to do instead, in the order you need them.

Ten for the first ten minutes. Before you reply, before you cancel anything, before you start the new work. This part is not about fixing the change; it's about not making it worse while you're still reacting to it.

Ten questions to ask, word for word. What's different from the last version. What date are we working to now. What drops to make room for this. Which bits are locked and which can move. Is this decided, or still moving.

Fifteen for rebuilding the day. One rewrite on paper, not five patches. Keep what survived. Cut one thing out loud so nobody is surprised. Start with the part that can't change. Block tomorrow morning before anyone else books it.

The back page is the one you'll actually use. Eight steps in order, for the moment the email lands. Screenshot it.

Nothing in here asks you to be calmer, and nothing explains your brain to anybody. The questions are the same ones a very organised colleague would ask.

Written for people employed in an office or hybrid role.

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