i have adhd but i’m not currently in school still i came to offer my coping mechanisms i currently use these at work and through school  it may help to flip your schedule i am a night owl and work really well at those late hours but have convinced myself i have to get up at 7 am and have a certain amount of work done by noon and beat myself up if i don’t i tried this this summer with working from home work 6pm-1 am go to bed by 2-3am wake up at 10am-11am do everything else you need and want to before 6pm it gave me time to take care of myself and in turn i had very little excuses or distractions when it came time to sit down and work  some quotes and things i’ve posted around me to help remind me how to adult   1 your brain will automatically always take the path of least resistance this quote forces me to challenge myself i always want to do the laziest thing first and struggle with anything else but if i do the hardest thing first it starts a snowball affect of feeling rewarded and encouraged as compared to being bored and ignoring it with a cheap fix  2 not only is it ok to half ass something don’t beat yourself over quartereight or sixteenth assing something we’re all pushed into adulthood with this idea that we have to be machines that churn out quality stuff 247 have a daunting sink full of dishes wash one spoon next time you go in wash one plate next time a cup clear one square foot of a cluttered room or one corner of a cluttered table set a timer and work on that project for 5 minutes not up for a full excise walk up and down the block or circle your house stand in the yard or on the stoop for 5 minutes it’s enough for today don’t spend time beating yourself up over not being able to do everything at once because it will keep you from doing anything at all  this is from a fellow unknown reddit’er my so sent a screen shot and i’ve since posted it on my wall   3a schedule half an hour a day to deal with email  this means answering responding deleting and filing not just scrolling through and reading about all the things you need to do later   3b create a list of things you won’t do this week  our minds are cluttered with things we don’t want to forget get them out of your head and keep them in a safe place so you don’t have to keep remembering them review the list every week and see if there’s anything you want to put on this weeks list continue to add new items  i rewrite mine almost weekly too because it changes and the checked boxes although they are rewarding mentally they’re distracting and cause me to miss things   3c create a place for random notes   random notes often get written on the back of whatever piece of paper you have handy instead create a place to keep these temporary notes  i have a notebook with tabs long term short term and a daily tabs the daily project tab is also where all my random notes go this came from a pryor “get organized class”  hope this helps my fellow adhd’rs and good luck with your studies   edit correcting autocorrect