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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.
Making a child repeat a year rarely fixes what went wrong. The same lessons without different support tend to produce the same result, plus the sting of being the oldest in the room.
If a year has gone badly, the useful questions are what support was missing and whether something else, such as an unrecognised learning difficulty,…
ADHD is not only about focus. Physical health tends to drift down the list, and appointments, sleep, food and movement are exactly the sort of thing this condition makes hard to keep up with.
Pick one health task you have been putting off and make it small and dated: book the check-up, refill the prescription, put a walk in the diary with…
Work is one of the places ADHD does the most damage, and it is usually a question of fit rather than ability. Choose the job that suits how you actually run, not the one that would suit an improved version of you.
Variety, movement, visible deadlines and quick feedback tend to work. Long stretches of quiet paperwork with a deadline months away tend not to. If…
If work keeps going wrong in the same way, ask for the expectations in writing before the next thing goes wrong. What is obvious to a manager is often not obvious to you, and a written version can be checked.
It might be a list of what counts as done, agreed deadlines, or the safety rules that are not negotiable. Adjustments are worth asking for too:…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Write out your real work history, every job, with why each one ended. In conversation people skip the short ones and the sackings, and that is precisely where the pattern lives.
Set it down as a list with dates rather than as a story. Then look for what repeats: bored after eight months, fell out with a manager, missed too…