I really love the colours in this pot of flowers, a little burst of joy every time I see them.

I have been essentially puttering around from one task to another since I got up 3 hours ago and it really feels good to just let my brain wander.

I have a loose outline of my day – stuff that has to get done- but the timing of it doesn’t matter.

So, I can work on one thing for a while then switch tasks…

For example, as I was writing the sentence above, I suddenly remembered that our small suitcase fits in our larger one* and that I would have more room in the basement if I combined them.

Because I am letting my brain off leash today, instead of trying to park that thought I just got up and put the small suitcase in the big one.

Normally, I wouldn’t jump up to do that right then because it makes no sense to do that now and because I might get even more distracted.

However, since I have given myself permission to follow my distractions today, it was ok to just go do the thing. And now it’s done and I am back on task.

So my question for myself is – If I just did things when I think of them instead of putting energy into focusing, would things just even out over the day?

That is probably worth experimenting with.

*Why did I remember that just then? Who knows?

I have a few important and time-based things to do on the weekend but mostly I can make my own schedule.

Sooo, that means that I have room to take Jessica McCabe’s advice (from How to ADHD) and let my brain off leash for the weekend and find more ease.

I’ve talked about this before but, for me, taking my brain off leash means that I can just putter through my day doing the things I want to do in the order I want to do them.

This is in contrast to the rest of the time when I try to do things in a ‘sensible’ order or in a way that makes sense to someone else or in a way that doesn’t ’waste’ any time.

Those approaches all take a lot of mental energy for someone for whom time is an ethereal concept, someone who struggles to prioritize.

So instead of expending energy on doing things in a logical way, I am going to do things in the way that makes sense to me.

It may me a lot of projects happening at once with me working on them in dribs and drabs but I’m ok with that.

Was someone preparing for vampires?

I sure hope not.