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I’m in a different, somewhat awkward, but good position where my company champions work/life balance. The pace is slower than I expected and I have ADHD. I stru

I’m in a different, somewhat awkward, but good position where my company champions work/life balance. The pace is slower than I expected and I have ADHD. I struggled at first especially since I want to respect other’s WLB. Sometimes I’d do a weeks worth (or more) of work in a day or two, but I try to spread that work back out so that it seems like things are more consistent. Some days I just can’t/won’t? focus on work. I think it’s because it’s not engaging? Does anyone “have it all,” ie working on interesting things at a challenging, yet decent pace? Has anyone been in a similar position? Do you have any advice?

throwaway743 6y ago
ADHD here as well. Best thing I've found is when facing tasks of little or no interest, think about the projects/tasks that excite you/you prefer that are on your list, and think of how you'll get to those the sooner you finish the boring stuff. Also, in terms of focusing, what's helped me is to find a single, non-lyrical, instrumental, ambient track, and just put it on loop for the whole work day. It's been easier to think/less distracting to not hear and process language or have to find the next track that I'm in the mood for, and I believe in some way it helps my mind stay focused on my thought processes related to my work through patterns the mind makes with the looping of the track.