Gain inertia with very small easy tasks

Key Takeaways

most neurotypical productivity advice says start with your biggest most important thing first right like eat the big frog like make sure you get that big thing done for ADHD brains our brains have a lot of inertia and inertia isn't just like movement energy it's like very heavy object that's sitting still has a lot of stationary inertia so like getting it moving is really hard and if you try to jump right into your biggest task unless it's something you're really excited about you will probably fail because you're going to stare at your screen and not know where to start so I recommend starting with your either your smallest task or the one you're most excited about first because it's going to get your brain moving in the direction of work even if it's not a work-related thing like it could be like oh I got to go pay this bill I can do that online right now just you want to be doing something that's not doing nothing and then you get this dopamine hit of like checking it off and then you do the next big thing and you keep going