Thrive With ADD

Isolation during corona-time requires new ADHD strategies… When my formerly successful solutions for productivity stopped working, I had to learn new things about myself.

With ADHD, your random thoughts – and the fear that you’ll forget them – lead to a lot of needless jumping from task to task.  Create one place to enter everything you need to deal with or remember. Simply “park” incoming thoughts in that place and immediately return to what you were doing.

It’s tough to focus on work during a time of personal crisis, with or without ADHD. Here’s how to stay productive when your mind is going around on a “What If…?!” hamster wheel.

Do fidget spinners help ADHD adults to focus?  In a way, yes…instead of fidgeting, they focus on the spinner.   But how does that help ADHD?

Waiting for the dentist?  I did my most productive and focused work all week during 45 minutes on my laptop in the dentist’s waiting room.

In fact, in that short time I got much more done than I would have in my home office….

Overwhelm keeps 88% of ADD / ADHD adults from getting started, according to The Procrastination Survey.

Surprisingly, unmotivated procrastination is much less of a problem than distraction and inability to plan…