The 5 Steps to Create Motivation When You Have ADHD
When motivation disappears at the exact moment you need it, these ADHD-friendly strategies can help you get moving again.
How to Let Go of Perfectionism When You Have ADHD
In the previous post, I wrote about what it means to be a perfectionist and how it can affect you. If you haven’t yet read that post, go ahead and check it out. Then if you decide you’re a perfectionist or just curious about perfectionism Read on to learn what you can do to change it. Ready? Weighing the Costs and Benefits When thinking about the cost and benefits of being a perfectionist you may initially think, Who would want the burden and pressure of being a perfectionist? And, if you are a perfectionist, you might decide you want to change this behavior. But as you first try to change your perfectionist behavior, you might find it hard to do. And you are perplexed. One…
The Cost of Perfectionism When You Have ADHD
A perfectionist is someone who is unyielding in their pursuit of unrealistically high standards. So, you may wonder what is an unrealistically high standard. Good question. Whether a standard is unrealistically high depends on your capacity and the context. Here are a couple of examples. You might think it doesn’t make sense to strive for such unrealistic goals. However, a perfectionist does not think the goals are unrealistic. ADHD and Perfectionism If you are a perfectionist, you may have come to be a perfectionist in part because of your ADHD. One way this may happen is when you’re trying to make up for actual or perceived failures in your past. Now you want to get it just right! While there may be many root causes…
8 Ways To Stop Procrastination With ADHD
In the last post, I shared with you the reasons you may procrastinate. If you haven’t read that one, go ahead and read that and then come back here. Because it’s helpful to know the reasons for your procrastination to craft the right workarounds. Because I know that’s what you want to do, right? You want to figure out how you can stop procrastinating. And by now you’ve probably tried several ways to stop procrastinating. You might even think that there might not be any other ways to do this unless you have someone watching over you to make sure you follow through. While accountability can certainly be helpful, adults with ADHD definitely don’t want somebody standing over them telling them what to do. I’m…
Why ADHD Adults Procrastinate
I know you want to stop procrastinating. If you are like most adults with ADHD, I bet procrastination ranks right up there in the top 3 behaviors you would like to change. I am guessing you have tried many different techniques to do so. But you have not had enough success, yet. You may even have gotten to the point where you often voicing concerns such as You might even think the solution is to have someone watching over you, making you to do what you need to do. Of course that is not possible, and you likely wouldn’t like it, if it were possible. So now you’re reading another article to see if this might help. I hope it will. The first step is…
ADHD & Finding Your Motivation When You’re Not Interested
For ADHD adults you know it’s easier to follow through on tasks that interest you. But what about tasks that don’t interest you? If you can delegate in some way or drop tasks that don’t interest you, you should do that. But what if this isn’t possible? It’s going to take a little bit of extra work to follow through on these tasks. The following strategies can help you do this. What About The Task Turns You Off? First, figure out what about the task turns you off. Here are some possibilities: Once you’ve figured out why you don’t want to do a task, the next step is to figure out what you can do address those challenges and follow through on those task that…
ADHD And Managing Your Clutter
Is your clutter causing you anxiety and overwhelm because you are worried about what you are missing or because you can’t find what you need when you need it? Whether it is physical clutter or electronic clutter, as it increases so does your stress level, right? But right now, because you don’t know how to tackle it, you may be avoiding dealing with it. Because it seems just too insurmountable. Is it your email or mail piling up? Stack of papers on your desk / table or electronic documents in the cloud or hard drive in no particular order. Maybe the clutter is filling your closets, basements, garage etc. Clutter can be anywhere and everywhere, whether it is on your computer, in your living space…
How To Set Boundaries Around Time When You Have ADHD
Boundaries are rules you set to let others know what is okay and what is not okay for you based on your values and priorities. They protect your personal and mental space, including physical, sexual, intellectual or mental, emotional, material or financial, and time boundaries. For this post, I’ll focus on how to set boundaries around your time. How about you? Do you have a hard time saying no when someone makes a request of you? And then you end up saying yes even when it would have been better to say no. For Adults with ADHD, this is a common challenge and is often one of the barriers to focusing on what is important to you. What if you could say no more often?…
ADHD and The Steps to Following Through on Your Priorities
Do you find it hard to decide what to do each day? Maybe you get overwhelmed trying to prioritize. So you’re never quite sure if you are doing what is most important to you. No doubt, prioritizing is a challenge for ADHD adults. I know it can feel impossible sometimes. After all, everything seems important. And it all needs to be done right now if not yesterday. But since we all have a limited amount of time and can’t do everything, we have to prioritize. That is, we need to choose among many options of what to work on now. And we need to choose what to ignore, at least for the time being. We need to tell ourselves, I’m doing this and not that. …