Before you read this article, you may want to read values and procrastination, and then reasons for procrastinating. After reading these articles, and doing the accompanying exercise, you will be able to identify: the tasks that are important to you. the reasons why you are procrastinating. Now for the sixty-four thousand dollar question: How do I Stop…
Before you read this article, I suggest you read my previous post on procrastination and values. In that post, I asked you to consider whether completing a task is important to you or not. If the end result of the task has no value for you, I suggested that, rather than worry about procrastination, you should…
Procrastination is a complex topic. It is not just about managing your time better. First, I want to look at the connection between values and procrastination. I have come to understand procrastination through my own experience with it, as well as through conversations I have had with my clients. While it is certainly not a habit endemic…
On many occasions, my clients ask me how to manage interruptions when they are trying to do work, either in a home office or in a work place. As staying on task for adults with ADHD is often challenging, having outside interruptions can prove to be “the straw that breaks the camel’s back.” There…
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” ~Peter Drucker Planning as a means of making a commitment, especially for those with ADHD, is key to execution and completion. Yet, you may say: “Planning stifles my creativity.” or “The only way I can get something done is if I do…
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? “ ~ Rabbi Hillel Rabbi Hillel really captures what it means to Value Yourself in the above quote. It is important to view the process of Valuing Oneself as a…
As the needs of each student are unique, it is impossible to offer a step by step plan. However, there are critical steps, which increase a student’s chance for success in college. As the architect of their future, college students with ADHD need to know themselves well (Field and Hoffman, 1994). How they come to…
For me, the power of coaching college students is seeing them as creative, resourceful and whole just as they are. This means that I do not need to fix them. In fact, holding them 100% responsible for taking the actions necessary to reach their goals and have the life they envision will help them develop…
Are you an adult with ADHD? Do you get overwhelmed by your To Do List or do you consider it just a useful tool? I hope that you fall in the later group. However, I know that for some The List, as I will refer to it, has an ominous power over them. I am…
For people who have ADHD, you know how great it is or certainly can imagine how great it might be to have people in your life who understand ADHD. What does it mean to understand ADHD? First, of course, acknowledging that ADHD exist in adults Understanding that ADHD is caused by biological factors and…