Just had a truly weird ADHD self-awareness moment with my time management. Let's call it "Schrödinger's Time."

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So, I'm moving interstate at the end of the week. I need to pack everything up, throw out that which is honestly just rubbish, and then clean the house spotless to get my bond back. I have four days in which to do this. I'm procrastinating, but I'm also anxious about procrastinating.

And then it hit me: I have both more time than I think and less time than I think.

I know that I can get this whole job done with a single day's concentrated work. But that's hours of hard work and I just don't wanna, so I'm putting off starting safe in the knowledge that I can get it done in far less time than I have available.

But bitter experience has taught me that jobs always take more time than I realise, and if I leave it until that last day I'll run out of time and end up working in to the night, and probably run out of boxes to put things in.

I simultaneously have too much time and not enough time, but I will only know which when the deadline hits.

It's like Schrödinger's Cat, but for time management!

Posted May 5, 2025, 2:08 AM UTC

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