Adult ADD: Delegating Just a Little
When you have ADD, you may not want to give up control of your world. It's hard. You know how well you can do things, and sometimes worry that no one else can do things the way that you can do them. Plus, ADD people have trouble communicating their needs and wants to other people so that when they do try to delegate, nothing comes out the way they want it to. So, the circle comes full around and we don't want to delegate again.
But there are some things you can delegate. And we aren't talking about paying an assistant or spending a lot of money to outsource to other people. You can start really small.
A big time waster is email. You may be inundated with over 1,000 emails a day, with stuff that maybe 1/3 of that is junk, and that's fine. But stuck among the junk is stuff that needs to get forwarded or done, and you probably have no clue how to separate that out. If only 20 of your emails are important to look at, and the rest are emails you may want, but don't really need. What can you do about that?
Okay. Now before I give you the ADD-friendly solution, the concept behind the solution is more important, which is that you have identified a problem, right? This email problem may be something you don't like dealing with, especially if you have ADD. That's number one. It's definitely something you want to delegate.
Actually, there are many ways you can delegate email handling. I mean technically, if you can afford it, you could hire someone to come in and check your email, and just send you the ones that are worth you looking at, right? That's a perfect ADD solution.
But if you're only getting 1,000 emails a day, it's probably not a good reason to hire someone. And what if you don't have the income to support it? Even if you're getting more like 5,000 junk emails a day, and you can't afford to hire someone, you have to think of something else, right? You have to come up with an ADD-friendly system.
If you only have 20 or 30 that are actually useful, then here's what you do: You go to SpamArrest.com and you sign up for an account.
Now, SpamArrest costs money, but it's not terribly expensive – it's actually a lot cheaper than you'd think. But it does cost something. What does SpamArrest allow you to do? Well SpamArrest allows you to pre-filter out all your emails so whenever someone sends you an email, the only way it gets to your A is if they click on a link saying "Hey, I'm really a human being," you know, instead of some automatic mail sender. And you can also go in there and tell it who you want to accept email from---automatically, like if you subscribe to some newsletters and things like that.
The point is that you're still hiring someone to take care of the problem for you. And will it be a perfect solution? The answer is no. It won't be. Just like when you hire a normal person. Will it be the perfect solution? No, but it will be a starting solution. You need time to train your assistant, especially when you have ADD, and you'll need time to train the software.
But there are some things you can delegate. And we aren't talking about paying an assistant or spending a lot of money to outsource to other people. You can start really small.
A big time waster is email. You may be inundated with over 1,000 emails a day, with stuff that maybe 1/3 of that is junk, and that's fine. But stuck among the junk is stuff that needs to get forwarded or done, and you probably have no clue how to separate that out. If only 20 of your emails are important to look at, and the rest are emails you may want, but don't really need. What can you do about that?
Okay. Now before I give you the ADD-friendly solution, the concept behind the solution is more important, which is that you have identified a problem, right? This email problem may be something you don't like dealing with, especially if you have ADD. That's number one. It's definitely something you want to delegate.
Actually, there are many ways you can delegate email handling. I mean technically, if you can afford it, you could hire someone to come in and check your email, and just send you the ones that are worth you looking at, right? That's a perfect ADD solution.
But if you're only getting 1,000 emails a day, it's probably not a good reason to hire someone. And what if you don't have the income to support it? Even if you're getting more like 5,000 junk emails a day, and you can't afford to hire someone, you have to think of something else, right? You have to come up with an ADD-friendly system.
If you only have 20 or 30 that are actually useful, then here's what you do: You go to SpamArrest.com and you sign up for an account.
Now, SpamArrest costs money, but it's not terribly expensive – it's actually a lot cheaper than you'd think. But it does cost something. What does SpamArrest allow you to do? Well SpamArrest allows you to pre-filter out all your emails so whenever someone sends you an email, the only way it gets to your A is if they click on a link saying "Hey, I'm really a human being," you know, instead of some automatic mail sender. And you can also go in there and tell it who you want to accept email from---automatically, like if you subscribe to some newsletters and things like that.
The point is that you're still hiring someone to take care of the problem for you. And will it be a perfect solution? The answer is no. It won't be. Just like when you hire a normal person. Will it be the perfect solution? No, but it will be a starting solution. You need time to train your assistant, especially when you have ADD, and you'll need time to train the software.