I wondered if taking one would be valuable so thank you for your comment!

Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a thorough response! There are so many good points here that I'm definitely taking notes. I have a handful of follow up questions if you don't mind.

Would you be willing to share an example with me of what your status reports and timelines look like and how you organize those? Not sure if it would be too specific to your job but I would love to see how you outline things. At my last job I had to submit a report on where I was at with projects and how my next week would be spent but it would literally take me hours to put it together even when my boss said it was a 15 minute task. But I could never figure out how to quantity so many projects so simply.

You said you sometimes have as many as 25-30 tasks. There is not enough time in a week for you to "touch" each one so how are you breaking down your calendar? Even if you have a team working on a lot of those you are still managing them which means you are still receiving emails and needing to track progress. How do you do that?

I absolutely need to work on being honest with myself about how much time tasks will take. This is very difficult for me for some reason. I always assume it will take less time so I don't give myself enough.

Your last point about pushing deadlines is a really good one. I'm going to keep that one top of mind.

Well you just nailed all my bad traits in one paragraph so thanks for that ;) just kidding but I DO struggle with taking on too much, never asking for help, letting the stress/workload affect my sleep, and overthinking. So I totally recognize that I'm a big part of my own problem when it comes to managing my workload. It's just harder to not default to those things than it seems. But thanks for the encouragement/reminder. Best of luck with your exams.

Is there like a questionnaire online or something or are you thinking I should go see a specialist? Does struggling to manage multiple tasks mean ADHD? I thought it was more about not being able to focus on any individuals tasks not necessarily getting overwhelmed by too many of them. But I'm pretty ignorant on the subject.

Looks like it might be similar to Asana or Trello but geared to developers. Not my field but I'll check it out and see if it has any good processes that might relate to me. Thanks!