Tag Archives for ADHD
How to Make & Maintain Friendships with ADD/ADHD
Making and maintaining friendships can be particularly challenging for those with ADD or ADHD. Follow these simple tips to expand your circle of friends.
4 Strategies For Emotional Regulation
Although emotional regulation often comes naturally, there are times when keeping one’s instinctive emotional response in check can be a challenge. To help improve your emotional regulation in those moments, use these four strategies.
How to Sustain Mental Effort When Your Energy Lags
Sustaining effort is a challenge for everyone at times, but it is an important skill to develop. Here are some helpful tricks you can use to keep going when your energy lags and your focus starts to fail.
5 Tips To Help You Sustain Focus
Sustaining focus is difficult for anyone these days with so many distractions popping up on our phones, tablets, and computers every time we sit down to work. These distractions are particularly detrimental to those of us with ADD or ADHD who already find it a challenge to sustain focus over long periods of time. If you find yourself easily distracted, here are some tips and tricks to help you sustain focus better than ever before.
5 Tips to Help You Monitor Your Focus
One of the keys to improving your focus is to first figure out when, where, and why you tend to lose concentration. Follow these 5 tips to start monitoring your focus today!
How to Improve Task Initiation
The most crucial step in getting things done is the simple act of getting started. This can be particularly challenging for people with ADHD because ADHD impairs the executive function necessary for task initiation. If you’re finding that you just can’t get started on your To-Do list, here are some tips to improve task initiation.
Mental Flexibility
Mental flexibility is the ability to adapt one’s behavior quickly in order to handle different situations in different ways. One of the side effects of living with ADHD is that you lack mental flexibility. Find out how you can manage your mental flexibility in this blog.
How Mindfulness Can Improve Your Focus
Research has shown that mindfulness, when adapted for ADHD, can improve focus and concentration. In a fast-paced world with countless distractions and demands on our focus, mindfulness and meditation have gained popularity.
Are You Ready To Take Control of Your Schedule? It’s Easier Than You Think!
Few things upset our lives more than a failure to plan. The Executive Functioning area of the brain is the part responsible for planning, so when there are challenges in this area, planning just doesn’t happen. A misfiring Executive Functioning area can hit people differently and affect the way they interact with the world.
Streamline Your Life Using the Principle of Multiplicity
One of my clients wrote a document that she calls the “Jones Principles”. These are attitudes that she has learned throughout our coaching over the past several years. One of the Jones Principles is the principle of multiplicity. In other words, if you are going to put the work in, make it so that you […]