Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with ADHD, ADD

Stop storing everything in your ADHD brain


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Managing the Noise: Why Your Brain Feels So Loud

If your brain feels like 37 open tabs that won't load, this short episode of Overcoming Distractions is for you. Designed for entrepreneurs and executives living with ADHD, we explore why your working memory is constantly overloaded and why "externalizing everything" is a biological necessity, not just a productivity tip.

Dave shares lived experience on how to move from chronic mental noise to clarity by simply getting information out of your head and into a trusted system.

Key Discussion Points:

  • The ADHD Mental Strainer: Why trying to store ideas in your head leads to decision fatigue, stress, forgetting and more.
  • Externalize Everything: Understanding Russell Barkley's core principle, and our brain is for having ideas, not holding them.
  • The 5-Minute Brain Dump: How a judgment-free download of tasks, worries, and anniversaries (guys, this one's for you…)creates immediate psychological relief.
  • The Power of One System: Avoiding the ADHD trap of using six different apps; find one capture tool that works, from a napkin to a notes app.
  • Weekly Maintenance: Using a 20-minute weekly review to clean up the noise and reduce last-minute scrambling.
  • Reframing Resistance: Why externalizing isn't "more work"….it's less work than carrying the mental load.

**Do you want to work with Dave one-on-one? Go to www.overcomingdistractions.com and book an introductory Zoom chat. Or go directly to Dave's calendar; https://calendly.com/davidgreenwood1/15min

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Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with ADHD, ADDBy David A Greenwood

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