AreasFocus, starting, and ADHD

Focus, starting, and ADHD

Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.

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Theme · Bringing the future closer
How long you have · Longer

Someone running just ahead of the avalanche has nowhere to stand and think. Reflection needs a bit of room, and a life with no room in it cannot make any.

This is why so much sensible advice slides straight off. Before asking what the wisest option is, something usually has to come off the pile: fewer…

LongerBringing the future closerADHD skillsQur’an 17:11

Nobody decides well mid-panic. So cutting the number of panics is itself a way of making better decisions, even if nothing about your judgement changes at all.

It is slow work and it is usually the real work: fewer things said yes to, earlier starts, deadlines negotiated before they are sitting on top of…

LongerBringing the future closerADHD skillsQur’an 2:197