When his migraines increased as his workload increased, Joe realized that a major trigger was being scatterbrained. At first I thought he meant the stress of being scatterbrained, but that’s not how his theory goes. Joe has become less scatterbrained and reduced his migraine frequency with a simple tool: Carefully managed to do lists.
Check out what he has to say in Headache Cause: Scatterbrain? Fix: To Do Lists? Even if you don’t agree with the theory he puts forth, his ways of managing his to do list are excellent.
I don’t know about the theory, but I can definitely see where being consistent enough to trust the list would help.
And I know that for me – my migraines can CAUSE me to be scatterbrained, just by virtue of fog, confusion, and exhaustion. So, even if list-making didn’t help the migraines themselves, it is quite possible that it’d still make life more manageable.
I know my fully mapped grocery list prevents me from going up notches on the pain scale, because I’m out from under the lights quicker.
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I’m with you on all your points. Store lights are evil, aren’t they?
Kerrie