50 AuDHD Workarounds for Repeat Tasks at Work

50 AuDHD Workarounds for Repeat Tasks at Work

You did it brilliantly the first time. It's due again Friday.

The first time, it was a problem to solve, so you solved it properly. The report was good. People said so. Then it came round again, and again, and now the thing you're best at is the thing you can't make yourself open.

This is 50 things to do about work that repeats.

10 for the first time you do it. Write the steps as you go, record your screen once, note why not just what, save the template the same day, write down how long it really took. This is the only window where you're interested enough to build the things that make the tenth time survivable.

10 for making it a different job. Race your own time. Start at the end. Change the format. Give it a limit you invented. Your brain has filed this as finished — so make the second version a different task from the first.

10 for when you cannot start. Open last month's and change nothing. Never start from blank. Do step one only. Ten minutes on a timer. Write the version that's allowed to be bad.

10 for getting it off you. The handover page, offering to train someone, asking to hand it on with the documentation attached, cutting a section to see if anybody notices, and asking whether it could be quarterly.

10 for keeping it good anyway. Repeat work is where the mistakes hide, because the person doing it stopped paying attention and hasn't noticed. These ten are the cheapest insurance in the kit.

The back page is for Thursday night: eight ways into a task that's due tomorrow.

Written for people employed in an office or hybrid role.

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