If your habits keep slipping, the problem was never willpower. Here is what hiring a personal trainer taught me about why an ADHD brain will show up for a person long after it stops showing up for a plan.
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A career pivot in your fifties is usually treated as an admission of failure. In practice it is often the most strategic move a senior woman with ADHD can make. How to redesign work that fits your brain now.
ADHD gets harder to mask, oestrogen stops supporting the brain, and work asks more of you than ever, all at the same time. Why midlife feels so much harder, whether you are employed or running your own business.
Every September I treated the first Monday as a switch: summer off, autumn on. And every year, around the middle of the month, I crashed. Why the jump is the problem, and how to turn it into a slope by rebuilding one anchor at a time.
From the boat at sunset. My own photograph.
There is nothing pressing in front of you, and instead of relief you get an itch. Why boredom feels like a small emergency to an ADHD or AuDHD brain, what surfaces when you stay with it, and six small places to practise.
You start a sentence without knowing how it ends. Halfway through, you hear yourself say the thing you actually meant, and it surprises you as much as anyone else in the room. That is verbal processing. Working out what you think by saying it, rather than sorting it silently first and announcing the finished version. [...]
Round the Island Race, from the boat. The day I am describing.
You get home from the day out, close the door, and something in you goes flat. Why socialising costs an ADHD or AuDHD brain more than it looks, why the replay starts at bedtime, and how to plan the recovery as carefully as the event.
Some weeks you are turning work away. Other weeks the diary is quiet and a small worried voice asks whether the phone will ever ring again. Why the feast-or-famine cycle hits ADHD brains hardest, and three things that soften the swings.
There is no shortage of productivity advice out there. Most of it is written by people whose brains work in straight lines. If you are running a business with an ADHD or AuDHD brain, you do not need another system designed for someone else. You need tools that work with the way you actually think, [...]
My phone lives on a stand in the kitchen, and the small inconvenience of having to go and get it is exactly why I use it less. Why willpower is the wrong tool for screens with an ADHD brain, and what to do instead this summer.
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