Posted in Living with ADHD, Strategies for success on 12/28/2009 08:00 am by Kathy Baur
Does it feel like it’s harder to focus at the end of the day for you? For many folks with ADHD, particularly if you are on medication, the end of the day signals a decline in your ability to stay tuned into the task at hand. There is nothing so frustrating as losing the momentum of the day to the downward spiral of disorganization and endless unfinished tasks. One of my favorite strategies that can unlock the potential of increased focus is exercise. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Living with ADHD, Strategies for success, Uncategorized on 10/12/2009 11:13 am by Kathy Baur
How many multiple projects do you have going at one time? Five, twelve, maybe twenty? It’s amazing how easy it is to get overtaken by the excitement of a new project, the adrenaline rush of something fresh and provacative. Yet, for folks with ADHD, with many projects, the excitement doesn’t last long enough to take you to the finish line. Surrounded by stacks of paper, taunted by those lovely color coded files that you step over every time you walk into your office, it may feel that your projects become like the ghost of Christmas past haunting you throughout the day. You may have found yourself asking “Do I really have to finish this?” to more than one of your little incompleted ghouls. Here’s the good new! NO, you don’t have to finish them all! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Living with ADHD, Strategies for success on 09/18/2009 09:48 am by Kathy Baur
When you are dogged by distraction and confronting chaos, the lure of hyperfocus is totally understandable. Many people think of distractibility as the main attention disturbance of ADHD, but it is so much more. It is problems of attention on both sides of the spectrum which brings us to the topic of hyperfocus. Read the rest of this entry »
