Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 2nd Edition-Revised and Updated: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized

by Susan C. Pinsky

every item should be stored where it is used so it can be stowed in one single motion.

For someone with ADHD, even the simplest task takes much more energy than it takes for others. To shower, get dressed, and get out the door in the morning can require the kind of care and concentration that average people expend over their entire day.

The best organizational system for someone with ADHD is the one that is most efficient, simplest, most convenient, and the easiest to maintain, because it requires the least number of steps and materials.

In the ADHD home especially, inventory MUST NOT fill storage.

Store things on the wall or on a shelf, never on the floor.

Only touch (or sort) it once.

many people with ADHD suffer from a kind of “perfectionism”

“Stuff” is the enemy, but services that others may consider a minor luxury (housekeeper, lawn care, laundress, accountant, professional organizer, etc.) might really be a therapeutic necessity.