It feels great when you can easily start and follow through on a task or activity that is important to you, right? But contrast that with those times that it feels like you are wading through quicksand, due in part to the challenges that come with your ADHD symptoms. It can be frustrating, to say the least. And I know you may be hard-pressed to come up solutions. While I write about many ways… Continue reading…
How ADHD Adults Fix Their Love-Hate Relationship with Routines
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 probably think, “I definitely need to do that! And I’ve tried… It just always seems to fall part.” So, you… Continue reading…
How to Prioritize When You Feel You Have To Do Everything Now!
One of the challenges for Adults with ADHD is deciding what to do at any given moment. And, if this is one of your challenges, you may make these decisions based on what feels important. But, when everything feels important right now, it can feel impossible to decide. Of course, while you want to pay attention to your instinct, as it may point you in the right direction, relying just on your feelings to drive… Continue reading…
Is Too Much Planning Getting in the Way of Managing Your ADHD?
In my last post I introduced you to the Stages of Change Model and shared strategies for preparing to create effective change — Stage 3. If you haven’t read that post yet, take a few minutes to read it, and then come back here. Ok, ready? When you have prepared enough, which will look different for everyone, you are ready to put your plans into action — Stage 4. And this time of action can… Continue reading…
Want to Be Productive? Then It’s Time to Ditch Your To Do List!
Ok, well, don’t ditch you task list entirely. But creating a task list for ADHD adults is, well, tricky. You definitely need a way to see and manage your tasks. Because, when you are using it the right way, your list can help you do what is important to you. And, of course, that’s what you want. But, if your list isn’t optimized, it may be hindering your productivity. Ready to figure out how make a… Continue reading…
Here Is How to Leverage Your ADHD Creativity and Get to Done
First, a heads up… This article is not just for those of you who work in creative professions, such as writers, designers, architects, etc. Everyone with ADHD needs to know how ADHD adults complete creative work. Because, whatever your work, you engage in some activities that require you to use your creativity. Maybe it’s creating a presentation, writing an article, designing a product, planning a class, etc. And you may also have the ADHD super… Continue reading…
8 Tips You Can Use Now to Go from Intention to Focused Action
Can ADHD adults complete tasks? Of course. Yet, I know it’s frustrating for ADHD adults to have every intention of following through, and then falling short. If this is happening to you, I imagine you’re wondering why, right? First, the three components we all need to be able to follow through on our intentions are knowledge, motivation — the desire to do something — and skills. If you, like many other ADHD adults, attribute… Continue reading…
3 Steps You Can Take Now to Turn a Dream into a Real Goal
Are you avoiding going after your long-term goals — dreams? Because you don’t think it’s possible, especially for ADHD adults? You can. Really. Using the steps below you can devise the right kind of goal and plans that will make it possible for you to follow through. As you read below you may wonder whether it is worth all the time and effort. I know. But putting in the time and energy up front will… Continue reading…
How ADHD Adults Can Stay Focused on Long Term Projects
I recently received the comment below asking how ADHD adults execute big projects. I am interested in how to maintain interest and progress for long projects. I am great at starting projects (lots of enthusiasm, love the creativity in planning a project), but then I lose interest and I get boooored and start avoiding it. Once I am bored I am easily distracted (by writing this email, as an example). As a result I… Continue reading…
How ADHD Adults Can Do What Is Important But Not Urgent
Wonder how ADHD adults can prioritize when it seems so hard right now? Maybe you’re just trying to get through the day. And it seems like you’re often in a reactive mode. Sure, you’ll want to adopt the skills, strategies and habits you need to get a better handle on your day-to-day tasks But I bet you don’t want to wait until you have everything under control before you act on your longer-term goals, right?… Continue reading…
