not me watching this at work instead of doing my job lol

this is liiiiiiiiterally genius!!!!! one of my imposter syndrome things is feeling like i was never accomplishing anything, but what actually kept happening was people kept coming in with last minute things for me to solve, taking away from planned tasks!!!!!

I often feel like I get distracted with the limited focus time I have as a stay at home mom, so this sounds like a great way to stay accountable to myself to use my time in a more productive/intentional way.

The distraction method seems to be pretty ADHD friendly!!! I think I'm gonna try this, thank you for explaining how it works!!! I guess my distraction lists will be so long, cause everything that comes to my mind gets me out of what I'm doing.

I'm so happy to see another person who splits work from personal journal. 😊

Finally a video on work planners 👏 No one does these!

I use a similar system. It's called my detour list and it's a game-changer when discussing priorities. I love this update!

Hello Rachel!! I’ve just found your channel a couple of days ago and have been binge watching all of your videos in preparation for the new year. Your videos have really helped me figure out what my planning needs are and how to implement them into my new planner for 2024! I’m using the undated daily planner by Papier ( I’m mainly using it for its weekly spreads though!). A big need of mine was a planner that aids me in accomplishing my goals by having check-ins and trackers throughout (aka tools to keep me accountable and aware of how much progress I’ve made). Tonight I plan on doing the Sterling Ink goal matrix thing (lol) on a piece of notebook paper and cross examining what I come up with alongside a different goal setting system I like to use (an audit of “the 7 areas of life”). Anyway, sorry for the long comment, I just wanted to thank you for your videos-especially, the one about goal planning with anxiety-they have been my number one planning resource going into this next year! So, thank you for all of your hard work! I know we all really appreciate it! 💕 Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like you introduced and helped implement your distraction method to your work place for everyone to use? That is AWESOME, girl!! Great job!! 🎉

Rachel, I'm so grateful for your insights. Our jobs (yay, academia! 🙋🏼‍♀️), personalities and planning styles are so similar, it's uncanny. So I've been drinking up your wisdom and I'll definitely try this too. I'm constantly trying to push for a promotion (ugh, academia 🙄) and this will help me loads to explain my many hours of overtime and long waiting list of projects. Thank you, please keep up the awesome content. 🤓

This is such a good idea. I'm finishing up my dissertation, a huge self-directed project, and it can be useful to keep track of distractions that take over my writing time sometimes. I'm not even talking about Netflix or cleaning the house.😂 I mean there are research or teaching related tasks that sometimes get in the way of meeting my writing goals. This method can help keep me accountable and compassionate with myself. I will try in 2024. 😊

This was super helpful. Very applicable for both adhd and software. At my work we create github issues, and triage them twice per week - frequently enough we can prioritize things as a team when they aren’t genuine emergencies. This includes small things that would be ‘quick’ to do (we call these papercuts), which helps me resist doing those immediately when they come up, if they’re not urgent.

4:00 WOW GIRLFRIEND, you have a LOT on your plate!! My dream job was a secretary at a grade school, unfortunately life caught up with me, marriage, pregnancy, divorce , work, and held-up at work for money. I certainly enjoy seeing younger people get that job and explain what or how they do it! I am certainly proud of you!! Good luck and thanks for sharing!! from Ohio🇺🇸

Yes! Some years ago, instead of planning, or on top of planning what I want todo in the future: wich i did do only 20% . So then i deceided to just log what i actually did instead for a while. And this gave me important insight in how long things take, when ihave energy and focus. So I dont set myself up for failure. What i thought of asdistraction was in fact a very important task (brainstorming because the goal wasnt clear and the steps were to big)

Wow Rachelle, this was so inspiring and helpful, thank you! I might try this as well, and also as a person who used to manage a small team, I have to say you would be a dream employee. Somebody as organized and accountable as you is an absolute dream to have in a team!

This more detailed video about the distraction method made more sense to me. I got it much better. In fact, I am thinking of ways to use it for my work too. I work at a global CRO, and we use weekly timecards to track our time and can enter comments etc. It is really the task I hate the most 😂

Rachelle, this is genius. Thank you so much for sharing this. The polarization between priorities and distractions is not a new concept, but the way you present it, and application in a familiar format of planner, is exactly what I needed. I am applying it immediately.

I LOVE this method, however the amount of distractions in my job would require me to use the weeks spreads 😂😭 that said, it’s an eye opener for me to think about just the sheer amount of distractions that happen on a daily basis and a place for me to start tackling my daily distractions. Thank you!

Hey your channel got a shout out as one of Helens favorites on the TCMC. It has been my favorite since you came on the scene over a year ago now.

Great idea and I have been trying to figure out how to do something like this. One thing: Many years ago, my manager warned me not to mix personal and professional documentation, at the time my Franklin planner, since anything work related is basically company property and can be subpoenaed or confiscated. For this reason, I would not add social media or doom scrolling to anything related to work. You’ve given me some great ideas about how to use this distraction logging.

Thank you for this update! I tried to watch the original video but ADHD. 😅 I really appreciate this more direct explanation. I'm a homeschooling mom and am really excited to implement this for my own accountability. You've given me some great ideas on how to expand my current bujo layout to include this. Thank you!

I'm a software engineer who is obsessed with both planners and agile/scrum ♥️ curious if you have thoughts on Kanban vs agile. I've been trying out the GTD method recently and it feels more like Kanban, vs traditional monthly/weekly/daily planning reminds me more of scrum.

this is so cool. It’s great that you put it in the agile context, genuinely helpful!

I’m thinking most of my stuff at work isn’t really about distractions but we do get handled a lot of work and then are also asked to meet these yearly expectations / goals but it’s hard to track how my utilization can affect how much I can contribute to those side projects / goals or just extra stuff I get done and I end up thinking I haven’t accomplished much by EOY. I might use this method to track how I’m contributing go those stretch goals each day / month

Not me getting distracted while watching this video

I just loved learning about this method, it seems to be so useful! I will try it for sure, thank you for the inspo :)

This video made me realize my office job is more laidback than I thought 😅

this looks like a really interesting system ❤❤

I may have to implement parts of this for my day-job - our project is spread between the UK, US and Asia, so I don't always know what my overseas colleagues are up to and distractions can land on my plate out of nowhere 😂

My old job did not leave me a single minute to note things down and wondered how we are are so busy 🙄

Working on my APE, flushed as soon as the weeks came out 😔

Damn... doom scrolling and social media... I don't get on my phone for the 8 hours or more that I'm on shift, I would be in so much trouble if I did that. I would be fired. I do get destracted but by other random work requests which can take me down a whole rabbit hole.