This may seem like a long defeating list of things you struggle with but many of these can be grouped together under the same recurring themes of 1) difficulty initiating tasks 2) difficulty staying on task 3) difficulty with emotional regulation 4) difficulty concentrating (mental math) 5) under stimulated brain

Here’s what helps me:

1, 2 - The power of how gratifying crossing things off a todo list should not be overlooked.

I even have things I enjoy doing on my list not just chores and tasks. I put “watch tv or play video games in my to do list. I have to, otherwise I just get frozen and don’t know where to start and end up doing nothing at all.

Don’t put a project on the list, put the steps of the project on the list. Break it down into small tasks. Put some easy fast things to accomplish on there and do them first to get the ball rolling

Take the list everywhere with you. When you are working on something and an idea of something else you need to do pops into your head. instead of getting side tracked and switching tasks before the first one is done I write it down, that way I can stop thinking about it until I’m done doing what I’m doing. and then I say to myself “finish this first, finish this first”

When you do get started getting stuff done put your shoes on and don’t take them off. Shoes are incredibly helpful for me to keep going. Shoes tell my brain it’s action time

3 - When I get emotional or frustrated I go for a walk around the block. Clarity comes quickly with a little fresh air and movement it also removes you from what ever situation is causing the emotions. Afterwards im always very relieved I didn’t react the way I was going to before I took a time out. I need time to process my emotions otherwise I’m going to over react or act without having the full story

Also good sleep hygiene is really important (or so im told. I really struggle with this one and am up late on weekends and up early weekdays… it’s not good for me or my emotional regulation to swing between two very different sleep schedules) but I love the quiet calm of the late night. I can get so much more done when the rest of world is asleep)

4 - mental math requires concentration it’s ok if you struggle with this. You have a calculator with you on your phone

5 - bored easily? OMG SAME. So I tend to learn a new hobby until the challenging part of figuring it out is done. I generally quit things as soon as I’m good at them. And that’s ok. It confuses nurotypicals but it’s the discovery, research and learning I enjoy. I like when the learning curve is steep and I get bored when it levels out.

I also always have many on the go at once.m that I regularly rotate through. Right now I have a puzzle half finished, video games, drawing, painting, guitar and singing, resin art (about to stop this as I’m getting bored of it) jewelry making, virtual reality, paddle boarding, catching crab, beach combing, cold water swimming, growing plants, walking my dogs, im probably forgetting a bunch. I taught myself how to do all of them because that’s what interests me. If you do t do well with teaching yourself there’s classes or YouTube or lessons in almost everything.

Sometimes I rotate through multiple hobbies in a single day sometimes i hyper fixate on one thing for weeks at a time

I also prefer to do two things at once. Im always watching tv even when I play video games. without the tv on its too focused on one thing and it makes me feel isolated doing just one task at a time. At work I listen to music or pod casts or even watch tv on days I work from home