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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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Theme · Your sense of time
Bringing the future closer 4Feelings and focus 4Shame and stigma 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 1Medication and how it works 1Treatment and medication 1What ADHD actually is 1Systems for daily life 1Your sense of time 1
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When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 14After a row 1In a change 1Under stress 1

Choosing the dull useful thing over the bright easy one starts with a pause, not with willpower. If the pause never happens, nothing downstream of it gets a chance to happen either.

The chain runs roughly like this: something stops you for a second, you notice what you are doing, the later consequence comes into view, and only…

A minuteYour sense of timeADHD skillsQur’an 20:114