Why Deadlines Don’t Feel Real With ADHD
Presented by Understood.org
Deadlines exist right up until they don’t.
You can see it on the calendar. You know it’s coming. You’ve even thought about it a few times.
Then suddenly it’s urgent and everything else gets dropped while you scramble to catch up.
This episode explains why that keeps happening.
We break down what research shows about ADHD and time perception, and why this isn’t just poor planning. Future time doesn’t create pressure until it’s right in front of you, so you end up relying on last minute urgency just to get started.
If you’ve ever wondered why you only seem to move when things get critical, and why that keeps messing with your business, your team, or your stress levels, this will make that pattern make a lot more sense and set up the systems we’ll build on Friday.
What We Cover:
- Why deadlines don’t create pressure until they are close
- What research says about ADHD and time perception
- Why last minute urgency becomes the default way to work
- The gap between knowing a deadline and actually feeling it
If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.
Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://unconventionalorganization.substack.com/
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Presented by Understood.org
Deadlines exist right up until they don’t.
You can see it on the calendar. You know it’s coming. You’ve even thought about it a few times.
Then suddenly it’s urgent and everything else gets dropped while you scramble to catch up.
This episode explains why that keeps happening.
We break down what research shows about ADHD and time perception, and why this isn’t just poor planning. Future time doesn’t create pressure until it’s right in front of you, so you end up relying on last minute urgency just to get started.
If you’ve ever wondered why you only seem to move when things get critical, and why that keeps messing with your business, your team, or your stress levels, this will make that pattern make a lot more sense and set up the systems we’ll build on Friday.
What We Cover:
- Why deadlines don’t create pressure until they are close
- What research says about ADHD and time perception
- Why last minute urgency becomes the default way to work
- The gap between knowing a deadline and actually feeling it
If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.
Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://unconventionalorganization.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram - @unconventionalorganisation
Visit our website - https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/
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