Overcoming Distractions focuses a lot of attention and resources on helping busy professionals like you thrive in the workplace with adult ADHD. This week we have a general discussion about how to navigate the workplace and thrive, grow and feel…
How emotional intelligence helps us thrive with adult ADHD
Understanding the overall concept of emotional intelligence and how it affects our lives with ADHD is critically important when it comes to navigating professional and personal life and thriving with adult ADHD. This week on Overcoming Distractions, Dave has a…
The basics of reducing clutter for adults with ADHD
One challenge that many people struggle with regardless of whether they have ADHD or not, is clutter. However adults with ADHD do find it difficult to create the systems necessary to reduce clutter and stick with those systems. Dave speaks…
Ways ADHD “shows up” in the workplace and career
This episode is Part 2 of how ADHD is showing up in our lives. This week we discuss how ADHD shows up in the workplace, our jobs and our careers. Dave is joined again by Dr. Fiona Peters a leading…
How does ADHD show up at home and in our personal lives?
So you are an adult with ADHD. Or maybe you do not have an official ADHD diagnosis but suspect you may have ADHD. While there are many signs of ADHD such as distractions, lack of focus, difficulty with routines and…
This calendar app can be a game changer for adults with ADHD and the family
Many adults with ADHD struggle to find a calendar system that works for work and home life. And when you’re running a household with children, sometimes your calendar system can get more complex. You not only have appointments, meetings…
How to remember and achieve goals with adult ADHD
Did you set goals at the beginning of the year or did you create any New Year’s resolutions? Have you gotten off track on your New Year’s goals or completely forgotten what you set out to do this year? Many…
Are you following conventional wisdom with your adult ADHD?
Conventional wisdom would have adults with ADHD believing that we need to follow a certain path to manage and thrive with adult ADHD. But as you may have uncovered by now, following conventional wisdom and accepted and unquestioned principles, is…
How to get more comfortable engaging with your calendar when you have adult ADHD
Adults with ADHD seem to have a love/hate relationship regarding scheduling and using calendars. Are you one of these people? Sure, it sounds like a simple concept but for many of us with adult ADHD, we tend to struggle to…
Overcoming shame as an adult with ADHD
As individuals with ADHD, by the time we are adults, we have experienced and internalized hundreds of thousands of negative inputs about who we are and how we are. This can create defensiveness, people-pleasing, perfectionism, social anxiety, oppositional behavior, and…