How to Manage Your Time With Eric Tivers (Part One)

What's sleep she says and here I am watching this video at 1:30 am... 🙄

So excited they mentioned timing yourself to learn how long things take !! I just wrote an article about this!! 🙌

I’m battling between learning about this disorder and blasting gangsta rap on the last ten minutes of my lunch break.

So about timing my tasks, I never remember to keep up with it. I'll do it for maybe one or 2 tasks and then forget.

"So that you're not up 'till 3 AM every night" good to hear at 4:25AM

I’m in the future!

Aaaaaand what about how long it takes to actually START a thing? Hours? DAYS? MONTHS?!? sigh

"wow your in the future!" yea no its past covid 😢

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to set the timer to see how long it takes to do tasks. Invariably, I’ll set the timer, and then at lunch time I’ll discover that my timer is still running on the first task that I finished three hours ago.

love this, but the musical chime in the background is so distracting to my brain!

Calling in from “wooow… the f u t u r e” p.s. scheduling for you and me is totally solved here in 2023 👩‍🚀

I have my problems with planning a schedule, for the same reasons as you. I have several strategies: One appointment per day: That way I can make sure it happens on time. "Free floating" time management: In a week I have certain blocks of work time per day. I do what feels right in the moment to do in that block, given that the outcome is work related. Minimize pre/post time: Get your tools near the tasks, move your files from wherever to your project folder. And I have a different problem: Routines build up on their own, and I have my problem getting out of them.

Lmao how did i think the same "prison"

It's 7am, I'm still up.

I just planned my whole week and everything went according to plan. I even had free time. But today didn't. My partner scheduled our driver during the time that I needed our driver and now nothing is going according to plan. He was going to work half day to help me move the house and he isn't working half day. I have ADHD and right now I just want to get under my covers and scroll until the problem goes away but I still need to cook, iron and move the house without him... It's 4h30pm 😤

I'm watching this 7 years in the future... A lot happened in those years.

So, here's my problem with timing, cuz I've been told to do this before. I sit down to do an email. I start the timer, get into my email, start writing, get interuppted, deal with that, remember I said I'd get paper for the printer, go get that, come back and the phone is ringing so answer that, then get back to my computer and go "oh yeah! The email!" And boom.. timer is at like 40 minutes and email hasn't been completed yet :/ so now have to start the timer over again, and the cycle continues

I have always struggled with scheduling! My life is so chaotic, that if I "time block" I won't get anything done because new stuff comes in that I have to deal with... its awful. So, now I do a rough timeline schedule. I just put like 2 goals per day on the timeline, and only put them when the start time is. If I started it around that time, success!!

I cannot thank you enough for this 😭😭 EVERYONE talks about having schedules but this is the first time ever someone is actually teaching us how to do it ❤❤❤
Lots of Love to Eric and Jessica

Any suggestions for a task that is vague? Like if I need to study a chapter for a class how do I determine how long to do this for?

My notes don't judge







* How long will it takes time it

My problem is things take different times on different days.... what happens when I schedule a time and go way over? Then my whole day is screwed so I just give up.

"Transitioning". 🤣🤣is there such a thing with ADHD?? I've moved on to the next thing by the time I'm done with whatever it is I'm doing.

I remember that one time I used a timer to see how long one task would take, yet that one task led to many other tasks, and I remembered I set a timer 4 hours later 🤷🏻

You didn't hit 50k subs... :( you reached 1.4 million! ^^ and you deserve not less then 10 million subscribers

I feel like the anxiety makes me go everywhere 20 minutes earlier

I feel like figuring out long things take you is great, unless you have a schedule like mine where 70 - 80% of my tasks for the week are new. What do you do when you have high task turnover?

What‘s sleep 😅👍
Yeah, but for realz, what‘s sleep 🤣🤣🤣

Oh my god that's genius. I need to start doing that even from prepping my coffee to walking the dog! I'd love to see how long I actually take with these things....i will just stop halfway through making breakfast to have a conversation in my head😅😬

I don't like schedule but I do notice people that do make one do more or get more done.

Spontaneity thing 💯 Why I Dont do schedules………..

I hate having to write down a schedule but it is basically what I do almost everyday to get things done (as a person with ADHD, dominant ADD) I tend to do things way earlier than planned when I know there is a deadline, because for every hour that passes, I get anxious and think I am not going to make it. Instead I miss out on other things; like going out for a walk or eating. I can only focus on one thing at a time, and when I really manage to focus, I hyperfocus. Otherwise hours of work is basically equal to 10 minutes of learning…I get distracted by noises and start to focus on the wrong subjects when reading/ doing essays. I focus on small things that have no importance being there in the first place. ❤️👏

The only time I wasn't late for work was when I showed up early because I forgot I was starting later that day. Luckily, I have some understanding supervisors. They understand I'm always even more late leaving work.

I have come from the future

Not knowing how long something takes is exactly where I get into trouble every time. Also, I have a strong judgement about how long something SHOULD take me and I force myself to do it within that timeframe. I punish myself if I don’t live up to it (f.e. working late or not taking a break without counting the work hours). Needles to say this is why I feel horrible about my planning a lot and why I searched for this video to begin with.
From tomorrow I will start up-timing myself! Also, because I live alone, I don’t notice when I get distracted. I was thinking of filming myself during my mornings so I get a more realistic view of what I actually do.

I signed up for Eric's Adult Study Hall to benefit from the "body double" idea. I love it and it's only my first day!

Schedules are opportunities to fail, and feel like they're "looming".

lol…late to your dining room 😂

What about tasks that occour only once or will take different amounts of time? How to plan them?

Wow, I love how she articulates "creating a schedule gives [us] so many opportunities to FAIL...." YES this is the strongest feeling I get from the need to determine how long something might take. I will get it done when I get it done!!

My suggestion is: Set up to study 15 min on the first subject. If you find you can go on set the timer for another 15 min, then 10, then switch to the next topic and do the same. Figure out if it's better to get a passing grade in all or if you need to press yourself on a certain topic to make it through. Good luck!

Hello from 5 years in the future! Congratulations on your successes and thank you for such an blessing of a channel! ❤️

Mate, I like you a lot

Me: casually adds video to "watch later" 🥲

Anybody else has to Re-watched the videos due to forgetting the tips/hacks

Help me please