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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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2 practicesTheme · Get it out of your head
Systems for daily life 107Getting assessed and diagnosed 76Get started 74Your sense of time 66What ADHD actually is 65Bringing the future closer 60Feelings and focus 45Structure and routine 36Shame and stigma 35Remembering to do it 27Screens and attention 20Treatment and medication 16Self-compassion 12Medication and how it works 11Use your strengths 10Work with your brain 2Get it out of your head 2
How long you have
Put the reminder where you will physically see it: the keys on the bag, the pills by the kettle.
Do not trust future you to remember. Build the cue into the world so the world reminds you.
Empty every open task from your head onto one list. Trust the list, not your memory.
A mind full of remembering has no room for doing. Park it all somewhere you trust, then work.