[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" layout="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none" last="no" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all"][fusion_title size="2" content_align="left" style_type="default" sep_color="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" class="" id=""]Take a moment[/fusion_title][fusion_text]No matter whether you are inattentive or hyperactive, adults with ADHD are always in motion. Whether physically or mentally we are always busy, engaged, seldom ever reflecting. We move from one activity to the next without much conscious thought. This is part of the reason why we fail to call our friends, makes plans, do the chores - we are always actively seeking the next interesting activity, thought, conversation or task - we don't pause! Auto-pilot There is much to be gained from pausing. But you must learn to self observe and notice your transitions first. Watch yourself as you move from one task to the next. How many transitions take place like you're on autopilot. Thankfully you can break out of auto-pilot and it's quite simple. It does mean paying attention though. Try to pay attention to your many transitions through the day. When you leave the house in the morning, when you start your email, when you take a coffee, when you ignore the time and stay an extra hour, when you pass over your expenses for email. Each is a transition demands an earlier decision - "what shall I do next". There are hundreds of transitions in your normal day and hundreds of decisions too. Decisions, decisions So when we transition, we are making a decision to change task. It's perhaps a brief, maybe barely perceptible decision but there is a choice to start something new. When transitions take place without conscious awareness - that's not always good. Important life decisions are taken by your impulsive auto-pilot, when you dive into the next most stimulating task. Long term goals are ignored. Initially it is not easy noticing these transitions, but slowly you'll become more conscious. After a few days, you'll really see how long you reflect on your choices: did you leap at the next interesting task and ignore the important one? did you even consider the important one? did you consider tasks for the week ahead? did you check a calendar or task list? how quickly did you think, before you acted? Pause and reflect Once your awareness grows of these transitions, you can choose to pause, to defer the next task, and to reflect on your choices. The longer you reflect, the more criteria you can consider. When you consider the next task, ask is this task in my best interests, would another task better serve me. Reflect on options, on the future, on goals and requirements before you make the next transition. Try pausing and reflecting, maybe there is a more valuable, rewarding and beneficial task or activity that you could be doing right now. [/fusion_text][fusion_title hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" content_align="left" size="3" font_size="" line_height="" letter_spacing="" margin_top="50px" margin_bottom="" margin_top_mobile="" margin_bottom_mobile="" text_color="" style_type="default" sep_color=""] Related posts on "ADHD strategies" [/fusion_title][fusion_blog layout="grid" blog_grid_columns="6" blog_grid_column_spacing="15" blog_masonry_grid_ratio="" blog_masonry_width_double="" equal_heights="no" number_posts="-1" post_status="" offset="0" pull_by="category" cat_slug="adhd-strategies" exclude_cats="" tag_slug="" exclude_tags="" orderby="rand" order="DESC" thumbnail="yes" title="no" title_link="yes" content_alignment="" excerpt="hide" excerpt_length="20" strip_html="yes" meta_all="no" meta_author="no" meta_categories="no" meta_comments="no" meta_date="no" meta_link="no" meta_tags="no" scrolling="infinite" grid_box_color="" grid_element_color="" grid_separator_style_type="" grid_separator_color="" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" /][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" layout="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none" last="no" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all"][fusion_title size="2" content_align="left" style_type="default" sep_color="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" class="" id=""]Hard to remain hopeful[/fusion_title][fusion_text]Adults with ADHD have often lost confidence in resolving their problems. After years of trying to change behaviours it may seem unlikely that anything will ever happen. "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change" - Bertrand Russell Definitions of hope include: "the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best" "to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence" "to expect, wish and desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfilment" Adults living with ADHD are challenged on a number of counts: confidence is battered from years of struggle and failure, desires are abandoned as unreachable and dreams are left hazy and tenuous. But without hope we are stuck. If we do not believe in possibilities, that things might change and get better - then why bother, why even try? Circumstances change Things never remain fixed, time changes everything. If we gain new knowledge and insights then we can perhaps build better solutions. Relationships can change when we better understand the issues that have challenged us. New opportunities appear in work. ADHD medication can offer a solution to many challenges, but most of all hope comes from support groups, forums, coaches and from sharing with other people with ADHD. With people to empathise with, relate to, listen to and discuss life and challenges, it becomes clear that it is possible to turn a life around. Take this hope from other peoples experiences with it comes the drive and energy to change yourself. My experience is of lives so much better I have seen many adults with ADHD redefine and shape their lives completely and achieve their dreams. I have been privileged to help some clients find far better jobs and careers, start amazing businesses, gain 1st class degrees, become healthy and fit, leave addictions, move country, improve relationships, resolve financial issues, and to feel great about themselves. It happens all the time but is much easier if you get some help, from people like you. "Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow" - Susanna Moodie [/fusion_text][fusion_title hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" content_align="left" size="3" font_size="" line_height="" letter_spacing="" margin_top="50px" margin_bottom="" margin_top_mobile="" margin_bottom_mobile="" text_color="" style_type="default" sep_color=""] Related posts on "ADHD strategies" [/fusion_title][fusion_blog layout="grid" blog_grid_columns="6" blog_grid_column_spacing="15" blog_masonry_grid_ratio="" blog_masonry_width_double="" equal_heights="no" number_posts="-1" post_status="" offset="0" pull_by="category" cat_slug="adhd-strategies" exclude_cats="" tag_slug="" exclude_tags="" orderby="rand" order="DESC" thumbnail="yes" title="no" title_link="yes" content_alignment="" excerpt="hide" excerpt_length="20" strip_html="yes" meta_all="no" meta_author="no" meta_categories="no" meta_comments="no" meta_date="no" meta_link="no" meta_tags="no" scrolling="infinite" grid_box_color="" grid_element_color="" grid_separator_style_type="" grid_separator_color="" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" /][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

ADHD Strategies – SimplyWellbeing

We are often on the quest for some amazing turn-around strategy that will fix our planning, diary, bedtime, punctuality etc. We think the new app to do list we have found will finally fix everything and get us organised. If there was really an amazing strategy or tool we would know about it already. Here are some practical thoughts on creating strategies that work for you alone.