Sweeping Scheduler

A client with ADHD who is a data analyst describes spending three to four hours cleaning on Saturday mornings and then doing nothing for the rest of the week. The apartment degrades rapidly Monday through Friday, creating visible clutter that she reports affects her ability to focus at her home office desk. Saturday cleaning has become something she resents because of its size. She knows the solution intellectually - spread the tasks out - but has made no behavioral change because when she gets home from work she cannot generate the motivation to choose what to clean.

Frame the scheduler as a decision-eliminator, not a habit-builder: 'The reason Thursday cleaning doesn't happen is not b...