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by Susan McGinnis of ADHD Impact Coaching
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Using Choice in Your Productivity Strategy: Choice Boards for ADHD
A “choice board” is a set of equal activities to choose among — a way to incorporate freedom and choice into your planning process.
Carrots, or Sticks? Motivation, or Looking Forward
What do you enjoy, that you can put out in front of yourself to make it more rewarding to move through your day?
Is It About Time, or Energy?
Your thoughts about how you will feel and how long things will take have an impact on how you feel and how much energy you have. You can’t control your feelings directly, but you can work with your expectations to change how you feel.
Do You Make Your Bed?
Making the bed fits into an important message for self-regulation, of “just doing” the things that create order and calm the mind. Links to a podcast featuring Seth Perler’s story.
ADHD and Emotions: New Research and Resources
A 2020 study supports emotional dysregulation as a diagnostic characterization of ADHD. This post includes a link to a podcast episode on emotions and ADHD by Dr. Ari Tucker and Jeff Copper with an important conversation around emotions in relationships and handling other people’s feelings.
Building Your Platform Each Day
Why routines and habits? Creating a supportive platform for yourself gets you through the hard times and keeps you going.
Shifting Focus for Big Goals
Long-term v. short term goals need different strategies. How to shift your focus according to the nature of your goal, using a story of swimming across Lake Tahoe.
How to Support People Working from Home in the Pandemic
For people trying to work from home in the time of quarantine, work has lost its structure, rhythms, comraderie, and accountability. This is particularly challenging for people with ADHD.
Try a Guided Meditation
This post shares a guided “body awareness” meditation that I think you’ll like. A meditation practice is part of self-care for ADHD because it is calming, centering, and builds awareness and tolerance.
Tips for Managing Email with ADHD
Let’s talk about why managing email is hard: noticing it; reading it; responding to it; sending it.
Support Memory with Visual Cues
You can assist your memory by setting up a visual cue, or signal — something meaningful, that will trigger your memory.
A Planner That Works For You
Planners help you visualize what you do over time. There are many different layouts - find one that works best for you.
How to Run a Zoom Meeting - Best Practices from the ADHD Community
Show your colleagues that you value their time and contributions by leading meetings using best practices.
What is the Truth About ADHD and Medication?
Rest Your ADHD Brain - Try Differently
ADHD Productivity: Creating Structure as a Game
Framing objectives as a game is a way of increasing engagement, creating support and accountability for your performance.
Diagnosing Low Mood : Depression, Anxiety, or ADHD?
Is depression or anxiety the right diagnosis, or could it be ADHD? Feelings of general unhappiness, anxiety, or hopelessness are cause to investigate for ADHD.
Surprise! A Reminder is Not a Plan
Work, Place and ADHD
The office was created as a factory for work that involves thinking. If “work” isn’t a place you go, how do you provide yourself a work environment for success? Here are some ideas to consider.
Feelings Change: Managing Emotions Over time
Emotions are important information, and identifying them as “right now” can help add some wonderful space in which to consider their meaning and what action to take.