Building habits with visual cues: a practical guide
Habits and routines rely on specific cues and contexts, making them fragile. To maintain them, choose striking, consistent, and actionable cues, as disruptions are natural and not a sign of failure.
Habit Loop Worksheet: a practical approach to behavior change
Establishing and sustaining routines is challenging due to cognitive effort, but by examining existing routines, one can identify key components for building habits. It's essential to avoid the ambition trap, keeping routines manageable and adaptable to changing contexts, cues, motivations, and rewards.
How to change our relationship with ADHD impulsivity
Understanding impulsivity may offer ways to prevent it and also build a better relationship with our impulses and ourselves
ADHD friendly organization strategies for back to school
Every year I thought this would be my year to be organized. This is what finally helped.
Finishing what you start when you have ADHD
How to escape the guilt, renew motivation and stop projects from languishing
Maintaining routines when you have ADHD
Adjusting our expectations to make our routines a game we can win
How to start tasks with ADHD and build momentum
Starting tasks can feel like climbing a mountain when you have ADHD. That initial push to get going is often the hardest part, even when you know what needs to be done. Whether you call it procrastination, executive dysfunction, or just plain stuck, task initiation is a common challenge for ADHD’ers—but there are strategies that can help.
Stuck in waiting mode? How ADHD warps time and what you can do about it
Feeling stuck before an appointment? Learn why waiting mode happens and explore ADHD-friendly strategies to ease anxiety and stay productive.
Why time feels slippery with ADHD and how to navigate it
For many ADHD’ers, time either flies by or drags endlessly, making tasks and schedules feel overwhelming. This experience, called time agnosia or time blindness, affects everything from deadlines to daily routines but with the right strategies, you can create structure that works for your brain.
Time blocking for ADHD'ers
Time blocking is a time management technique that makes our tasks and our time visible. Here’s why it can be so helpful for those with ADHD and how to implement it.