A Stronger Mindset for ADHD Productivity

Clients with ADHD want to get more done—and with less angst. It’s easy to jump to standard ADHD-friendly strategies, like using a planner, setting alarms, etc. that seem like they should work. Except that too often they don’t which can leave both you and your client disappointed when those great ideas fall flat. These standard strategies can be helpful, but can easily be undermined when clients don’t have the right mindset and get stuck before they start.

Drawing on twenty-five years of specializing in ADHD, Dr. Ari Tuckman will explain how to work around six mental roadblocks to getting things done.

• What Are Your Favorite Lies? How do clients justify decisions in the moment that undermine their productivity? And how to help them make wiser choices.
• Just Bite the Bullet on Things You Hate Dreaded tasks make it even harder for people with ADHD to muster the motivation. Help them go towards that discomfort and suffer less.
• The Love and Hate of Deadlines People with ADHD often rely on deadline pressure to kick them into gear—it works, but it’s stressful. Let’s set up deadlines to get more of the benefit and less of the misery.
• How Perfect Does This Need to Be? The struggles of ADHD can lead to true perfectionism, as well as various lookalikes. High quality is great, but can stall productivity, so let’s find the right balance.
• Overwhelm: Break Down Big Tasks Large, complicated projects can flood working memory, leading to shut down. By putting some order to the chaos, clients can begin to work their way through to a manageable plan.

You will learn specific strategies to help clients with ADHD create a stronger mindset that supports greater productivity.