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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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Systems for daily life 4 Feelings and focus 3 Screens and attention 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Get started 1 Treatment and medication 1 Medication and how it works 1 Exercise, food and other supports 1 Shame and stigma 1 Remembering to do it 1

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Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 1

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Any ordinary day 16 Under stress 1

Look at what you are actually working for this week. If every item is there to stop someone being cross or something going wrong, you are running on avoidance, and it is exhausting.

Avoidance does get things done, but only at the last moment and only with dread attached, and it leaves behind nothing you wanted. Take one thing off…

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