Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

In the category of ADHD and work, we’ve been talking a lot about behavior. But what about efficiency?

Do you ever feel like you’re forgetting something? You’re not alone.

Today’s show is all about priorities at work. It’s a question we see often in coaching and it’s made immeasurably more challenging thanks to the complex human organism that is “the office!”

ADHD and work don’t always mix. That’s why it’s important for you to know your own strengths, and how to best leverage them on the job.

Today, inspired by your calls and emails, we’re talking specifically about what it means to tell your employer about your ADHD.

We’re doing double duty on the show this week! Still celebrating ADHD Awareness Month AND celebrating the wonderful blog post that Evernote did with us, we decided that now is as good a time as any to review how we use Evernote as an organizing tool today, and how our use has changed over the years.

Let’s say it right out loud: you need to hear the story of our guest today. Alan Brown is the force behind ADD Crusher™ and Crusher™TV, helping people around the world in their journey with ADHD through his proven Brain Hack strategies and inspirational interviews.

If you suffer from Imposter Syndrome, you’re a high achiever in some area, though you feel as if your achievements are not the result of training, skill, and intelligence, rather your success is the result of an accident of fate, and you are constantly on the cusp of being discovered as a fraud.

The grass is always greener, we say, and we find ourselves living in FoMO: the Fear of Missing Out.

If you browse the ADHD circles on social media, it won’t take long to find an inspirational meme describing how one of the many superpowers of those with ADHD is that they are generally more creative than those without. The problem is, according to research, there’s no established connection between those who live with ADHD and higher than average creative impulses.

Impulsivity is a part of the ADHD experience that offers few upsides.

It starts with a goal, an objective that you’d like to accomplish something over a specific period of time.

Want to get better at scheduling? Do it every day. Want to finish more things more frequently? Make a plan to work on one of them every day.

We’ve got a couple of terrific listener recommendations for habit tracking apps to kick us off this week, with emails that inspired a habit follow-up conversation that centers on this big question: do you understand the factors that are causing you to fail to build new habits in your life?

Learning is tricky.