Stimulants: very effective but come with some heavy costs, I’ve tried basically all the adhd meds including the non-stimulants, each has their own pro/con balance, ultimately I find by the end of the day I am burned out from being locked in all day and it impacts my relationships.<p>Supplements: I’ll probably never stop searching but I’ve yet to really come across anything that reliably works, the only possible way exception here is taking l-theanine with morning coffee to flatten out the caffeine kick.<p>Pomodoro: seems to work really well but you have to actually do it, I can have the timer sitting under my monitor by if my mind is in Alice in wonderland mode it may as well be on the moon.<p>Binaural beats/coloured noise: seems to help though I’m just using Spotify so they’re probably junk anyway.<p>Phone: unfortunately I’ve not been able to find the right balance of utility and consumption when comes to my phone, feed style apps, variable reward interactions and etc just fuck me, ive tried dumb phones, adding friction by using a tiny phone, locking down features and apps, I’ve literally spent thousands of dollars churning through devices and hundreds of of hours searching for that holy grail that will save my focus.<p>Books/systems: bullet journals, to atomic habits of highly effective people, great ideas but nothing has stuck.<p>What works: other have mentioned, doing things you enjoy, this is key, and why meds are tricky, once I’m engage and hyper focused, I’m locked in, but if I’ve taken a stimulant it feels like I’m on the verge of mania.<p>Diet, exercise, and sleep - critical I don’t know if this is the starting point or if I get organised and focussed when I’m in a good flow.<p>What I suspect is the silver-ish bullet: some kind of mediation/mindfulness practice, all signs point to this but I struggle to even try to start so maybe I will do that today.