I’m not just talking about self-medicating ADHD with booze and drugs… I’m talking about self-medicating our ADHD with any of a number of things we’re eating, drinking, smoking, watching — and even thinking — that are giving us a sense of “relief” from our pain and frustration. We ADHDers tend to have low levels of … Read more
How to Delegate Work? Start by Knowing The Barriers to Delegating If you’re overwhelmed at work, at home, or both, there’s a really good chance you’re not delegating enough. You need to know some of the secrets of how to delegate work. Delegating is a critical survival skill in the corporate world – but also in … Read more
“Garbage in. Garbage out.” True for computers, for your brain — and for your ADHD brain fog. They say, “You are what you eat.” To the extent that’s true, you’d want to eat lots of “brain foods” and steer clear of “stupid foods,” right? Right. So if you want to beat the frustrating ADHD brain … Read more
Self-talk is a powerful tool for changing habits, destroying negative beliefs and just plain being happier. So…Yes! Mumbling to yourself as you stumble down the street is a sign of intelligence and can make you more productive! What If You Had a Great Coach with You All the Time? Imagine if you had a great … Read more
“The #1 productivity tool you aren’t using,” is what Forbes called the practice of journaling. Research from Harvard Business School says it can boost your performance and impact your career success. Sir Richard Branson calls it, “my secret life hack.” And I call it an ADHD natural remedy. Yep. Just…writing stuff down! But before we … Read more
ADD Crusher™ Workshops and Presentations, Europe 2015 My European speaking tour is March 6-18. If you’re in the UK or Netherlands please check out these dates (more dates/cities are being set) in chronological order. For more details on each, follow the links… Amsterdam, 6 March: ADD Crusher™ Seminar This is a two-hour multi-media, live coaching workshop with lots … Read more
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about Impostor Syndrome, the “extreme edition” of negative self-talk. Officially, it’s defined as the “psychological phenomenon in which…despite external evidence of their competence, people remain convinced that they are frauds and don’t deserve the success they’ve achieved” – per Wikipedia. The blog post got quite a response … Read more
At the ADDA conference in Orlando, one of the presentations I gave carried the same title as this blog. And I humbly submit that it was among the most important at the conference. Here’s why: we who enjoy the meanderings, the sense of community and the shared triumphs and trip-ups within our ADHD communities (blogs, … Read more
As anyone who’s seen the intro to ADD Crusher™ Video I knows, I can’t read my way out of a paper bag. Slow. Painful. “What was that paragraph I just read? Oh, wow, I just read 14 paragraphs, none of which I remember. Guess I’ll go back and try to read ‘em again.” Many of … Read more
We ADHD adults so often walk around with our ADD hanging around our neck like a yoke…or drag it around like a ball-and-chain. It’s always there, seemingly right out in the open. Dragging us down, tripping us up, making us feel “apart” from whomever we’re with. But there’s a point at which successful ADDers flip … Read more
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