Kick Some ADHD

With ADHD, projects can be overwhelming… take for example: making dinner. There are soooo many steps that you need to take – choosing a recipe, chopping vegetables, getting out the ingredients, etc.

We can get bogged down with all the steps, end up with lots of frustration and resistance, give up and order out (or pour a bowl of cereal).

But what if you did some of the steps ahead of time? Like you’d preheat the oven so it’s all warmed up and ready to go?

Tune into this short episode of Kick Some ADHD to learn how you can preheat the ADHD project oven for dinner, eliminating clutter, cleaning out the sock drawer and so much more!

If you’re a woman over 40, you might be wondering why your ADHD symptoms are going haywire. Or you might be looking up the diagnosis wondering if you have ADHD when it had never occurred to you before.

Welcome to menopause (and the precursor stage before it called perimenopause).

During this phase of life, many women find it tougher to manage their ADHD and treatment adjustments might be necessary.

Tune in to this special episode of ADHD to learn about the 7 ways that ADHD and menopause can connect. And remember, you’re not alone!

Remember – You don’t have to struggle! You CAN live easier with ADHD. Check out the ADHD Success Club to learn more ways to manage your ADHD!

Learning when and how to take a break is a really important skill for managing ADHD. We need to be mindful of ourselves, but just being aware isn’t enough.

To really manage ADHD effectively, we need to pay attention to our thoughts and actions AND make changes when necessary.

What we really need is a moment to pause—a quick second to stop and adjust our actions away from those less helpful habits tied to ADHD.

Learning to pause is super important for anyone with ADHD because it helps keep impulsivity in check, improves emotional reactions, and helps us make better decisions.

Tune into this episode of Kick Some ADHD to discover why you want to practice the pause as a handy tool for ADHD.

Your friend asks if you want to do something and you say, “YES!” And you truly mean that YES with the best of intentions. You want to do it. But for a whole list of possible reasons, you don’t follow through.

This is an example of making an empty commitment.

Saying yes and not following through damages our relationships with other people and ourselves so we need to watch out for them.

Make a commitment to listen to this episode of Kick Some ADHD and follow through right now to learn how to keep your commitments!

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Let’s take a bit of a break right now and check in…how are you doing? Really.

Because I’ve noticed that many people are having a rough time right now which is impacting their mental, emotional and physical health.

You don’t have to be strong alone and pretend that nothing is wrong.

Listen in. Get support. Be vulnerable. You are not alone.

Earlier this week, one of my private coaching clients said: “When you have ADHD, you live in the gray, but think in the black and white.”

What this means is that we view things in extremes, there’s no middle ground. It’s all or nothing.

And this cognitive distortion touches everything to do with ADHD leading us to struggle, procrastinate, get things started, manage emotions and relationships. It just makes things harder than they need to be.

So let’s talk about how we can manage it!

Then jump into these other episodes to keep working on your ADHD:

Want some additional help living easier with ADHD? Join the ADHD Success Club here or learn more about my private coaching.

The fall season has officially started which means that you’ve probably shifted into a different daily / weekly schedule than you had over the summer.

And if you have ADHD, at this point, you may be a bit overwhelmed. Because when we transition into a new chapter, we often jump into the change and expect to be able to do everything at once. But this sets us up for failure.

My coach used to say, “If everything is important then nothing is important.”

I shift that to say: “If you try to do everything, you will end up doing nothing.”

So I wanted to share this episode again to help you succeed and that means building new ADHD habits to deal with the new season!

And the first step is to decide where to start and that depends on which best resonates with you:

Tune into this week’s episode of Kick Some ADHD to discover which works for you and start building ADHD habits to help you succeed this fall season!

Then check out the following to keep learning about how to manage your ADHD:

If you tuned into Episode 210 – Dealing with Difficult Times, then you know I’ve been dealing with some family challenges that resulted in a topsy turvy summer.

So I’m doubling down on who I want to be. And that is someone who cares, delivers and shows up…and I’m showing up this week for the podcast in a different way and sharing a replay of one of my most popular episodes in case you missed it!

This episode asks the question: Is it possible to learn new skills and make changes in the way that you manage your ADHD?

The simply answer is YES. And I’m excited to share with you a story about someone who did!

Tune in to listen to how coaching has helped “Emma” and what she’s done to reinvent herself and live easier with ADHD!

Here are the other 2 podcasts I mention on this one:

Episode 194: Interview with Alan P. Brown

Episode 196: Unpacking ADHD Triggers

One of the hallmarks of ADHD is leaving things unfinished. We struggle to take things to the end step. Small tasks, big projects. We also struggle to get things started and find ourselves easily distracted by other shiny things.

The result? We’ve got lots of half finished tasks and chores that cause clutter, confusion and a general mess of overwhelm. 

One of my delightful and brilliant coaching clients came up with a new mantra that helps solve these two challenges. Tie up the loose ends first! I love this and am finding it amazingly helpful in my life. 

Tune in and learn how you can apply this to tasks today!

Want to learn new skills to manage your ADHD? Join the ADHD Success Club here!

Life is tough. There’s no way around it. We have to deal with so much in our external world that we can’t control. So much stress and overwhelm. And this summer for me was definitely rough.

So I have been thinking about dealing with difficult times. And what I do.

When I am faced with a challenge, I ask myself: who do I want to be?

How does this work for me? Spend about 10 minutes right now to find out so you’re ready to deal with the next difficult time that hits you.

And keep learning how to manage your ADHD so that isn’t creating a difficult time in your life. Check out: