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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Build your work around what your mind does well, novelty, hyperfocus, big-picture, not only around your gaps.
You will go further leaning on your strengths than endlessly sanding down your weaknesses.
Look for something genuinely hard that sits on top of something you are already good at. Too easy and your attention wanders off. Too far beyond you and it just becomes another thing you failed at.
The narrow band in between is where you stay engaged without noticing you are trying. It is usually a bit further up than feels comfortable when you…
For a lot of people with ADHD, making things is not a hobby but closer to an appetite. The itch to start something is always there, and when nothing is being made it does not go quietly.
Read that way, the restlessness that arrives when you have no project on is information rather than a character flaw. The same drive that gets called…
When the right piece of work finally has you, you are entirely there. Hours go, nothing intrudes, and the difficulty that flattens you elsewhere is nowhere in the room.
That state is the same machinery as the hyperfocus that gets you into trouble, pointed at something worth doing. Worth noticing so you can go looking…
You cannot work out in advance what will light you up. The only reliable method is a wide and slightly undignified search: many activities, many people, plenty of reading and watching, until something catches.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
This means giving yourself permission to try things badly and drop them, which is hard if you have been told all your life that you never finish…