Simply Wellbeing's ADHD Blog

The primary problem listed by Adults with ADHD in surveys is procrastination. But this is not a simple issue of motivation or of understanding, it is an issue of doing. Traditional therapy and coaching that focus on motivation and planning simply don't work, or work for a weeek or two only. People living with ADD struggle with forgetfulness, planning, activation and in doing what is interesting not what is important.

As an ADHD coach, I often work with clients who know what they want to do but just don't do it. These clients understand perfectly well how to plan and manage their time. They know what is important and what isn't. Yet they get up day after day and fail to plan, fail to review, fail to take action, fail to achieve their goals. They know why and what they need to, yet do not change.

Many of  the wiser scientists and researchers define ADD as a dis-regulation of attention, which comes close but not close enough to a definition I hope for. I see people with ADD as being neurologically "less-controlled", which is not necessarily a bad thing. This lesser control of the brain means a much wider variation in which parts of the bain are dominant, which parts are more active and which parts are under-active.