How do I stay focussed on work with brain fog & chronic pain?
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Today, I'm going to be answering the question. How do I stay focused on a bad day? So that's days we've got lots of brain fog or lots of chronic pain and I still got to work a full eight hours. So the key for me is basically not to try to stay focused if my brain is doing a note which I realise doesn't make sense, but it it That's so like the what I do is I sit down and the first thing I ask myself is how long do you think that you could stay focused for and sometimes the answer to that question is is one minute. Sometimes it's five. Sometimes it's 10 and then I set a timer on my phone and I work for just that length of time and then in matter how I'm feeling at the end of those five minutes. I stopped and I asked myself. How long of a break do you need? And then be that 1 minute 5 minutes 10 minutes. I set an alarm and I don't do anything that my brain doesn't want to do within that 10 minutes or whatever time it is. And after that I can cycle back around to the how long do you think you could focus for and literally I go through my day cycling between how long do you think you can focus and how long of a break do you need? And it allows me to get the work done that I need to get done without trying to force my brain to do. I think that it just can't do and that's just sort of like a general sort of key bit about how I managed disability not trying to ask myself to do things that I can't so yeah, that's basically it. I mean like obviously I can also try to do the tasks that require the least focus on that day, but I find in particular with my job. There's very few of those. So like that doesn't really help me as much but I'm sure that does help other people who You have sort of quite a few less focused tasks than me. But yeah, that's it. Please do let me know if you have any other questions about disability and how I manage things because I wanna share.