Time Management With Chronic Illness
Thoughtful planning, prioritizing, and these tips for time management with chronic illness can help you reclaim your days while still making self-care a priority.
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Thoughtful planning, prioritizing, and these tips for time management with chronic illness can help you reclaim your days while still making self-care a priority.
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When living with chronic illness, productivity can feel constantly out of reach. The symptoms of your conditions create barriers to getting things done and meeting obligations. It’s easy to think you simply aren’t trying hard enough. But the truth is, you can’t just push through illness through sheer willpower alone. What you need is a…
When you’re chronically ill, productivity can feel impossible. Our limited energy and problematic executive functioning beg for tools specially designed to meet our unique needs. In my experience, one of the best productivity apps is Amazing Marvin for spoonie productivity.
With many productivity tools focusing on healthy, neurotypical users, they won’t all work for disabled folks who want to be more productive. The best productivity tools for spoonies, in my experience, are those that are customisable and either work with your symptoms or aim to relieve them.
From research and my own experience, I’ve created a sort of guide to productivity with chronic illness, to help me & my fellow spoonies.
Read my full Trello review to learn how it’s super-charged my productivity—and how it can do the same for you!
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