Tools, systems, and strategies to help adults with ADHD take action, get organized, and follow through more consistently.
The wrong kind of task list can overwhelm adults with ADHD, rather than helping them. How about you? Do you have a task list? Is it helping you follow through? As is true for many of my clients when I first start working with them, you may have several lists — a sticky over here,…
You’ve probably heard time and time again that adding structure to your life can help you manage your ADHD and keep you from floundering — doing whatever catches your attention in the moment. It’s true. Yet, if you are like many adults with ADHD, when you think of adding structure to your life you…
Do you often wonder, how ADHD adults can make lasting changes stick?“ Maybe you question whether your life is always going to be “this” way because of your ADHD? The simple answer is, “Yes, you can.” The more complicated and honest answer is, “Well, it really depends on whether you think you currently have the…
When you have ADHD and deciding what to change is a challenge, you might get stuck in analysis paralysis. You know you need to make some sort of change to make things better, but you just don’t know where to start. Everything seems hard. And you want it all to be better. Now! But, since…
As you know, if you have followed my writing, I write a lot about productivity for adults with ADHD — how to get your important stuff done. And, judging from the responses I’ve received over the years, I know you really want and need this information. But ADHD adults also need to have fun! Sure,…
For Adults with ADHD it can feel like many days consist of putting out one fire after the next. If this is true for you, maybe you have been operating this way for a long time. So, you don’t know there is another way. But there is a way to reduce your ADHD stress. A…
As an adult with ADHD you likely experience some sort of short and long term memory challenges. So, you may find yourself at times saying: Your brain is great for thinking and creating. But it is not what you want to rely on for remembering anything you need to recall at a specific time and…
In the previous posts in this series covering “Adult ADHD and Money – Personal Finance” I explored the topics of emotions, values and structures to manage your money. This last topic, spending, will likely garner the most interest because it is such a pervasive and insidious problem for many adults with ADHD. If you…
Being able to follow through on your values as they relate to money, the topic of my last post, can be a challenge if you are an Adult with ADHD. So, it is particularly important that you have the right structures in place. Because structures are the bridge between your intentions and the finish line,…
Emotions and money was the subject of the last post. A suggestion. Read that one, Adult ADHD and Money – Personal Finance Part 1, if you have not already. Then, if managing your money with greater ease is one of your goals, the next step is getting clarity around your values as they relate…