Hacking Your ADHD

Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, where you can learn techniques for helping your ADHD brain. ADHD can be a struggle, but it doesn't always have to be. Join me every Monday as I explore ways that you can work with your ADHD brain to do more of the things you want to do. If you have ADHD or someone in your life does and you want to get organized, get focused and get motivated then this podcast is for you.

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Compassionate Ass-Kicking For The Win

When I'm working on this podcast sometimes I wish my boss would be a little harder on me because it can be easy for me to get behind - but my boss is kind of laid back and lets me get away with more than I should - and that's probably because my boss is me. When I can't count on myself to get the things I need to turn to others to help me out. A lot of us with ADHD can have trouble turning to others when we need help, but we don't have to do things alone. And one of the best ways others can help...

Nov 18, 2019•14 min•Ep. 9

How to Get Refocused After Your Vacation

Last week was all about getting there and this week we're focusing on what to do when you get back. Travel disrupts our routines and habits - and we should take those disruptions seriously. One thing that I've had to learn over and over again is that ADHD makes transitions hard - and coming back from a trip is a big transition. This Episode's Top Tips Identify your routines and habits before your trip so that when you get back you know where to pick things back up. Make sure you are paying speci...

Nov 11, 2019•14 min•Ep. 8

Seven ADHD Friendly Travel Hacks For An Awesome Vacation

ADHD loves novelty and what could be more novel for an ADHD brain than going to a new place? While you might love the destination, getting there can be really hard for those of us with ADHD. The process of traveling some place new takes a lot of work and a lot of attention to detail that can even escape neurotypicals. Recently my wife was booking our tickets to go visit family during Thanksgiving - except after she booked the tickets she realized she booked them for the wrong weekend. Fortunatel...

Nov 04, 2019•16 min•Ep. 7

How to Journal Even When You Have ADHD

Find the Full Show Notes: HackingYourADHD.com/podcast/journaling This Episode's Top Tips Journaling allows us to think through our problems and improve our emotional well being You've got a lot of options for how to journal - be it with pen and paper, digital, or an audio or video journal make sure you are choosing the option that is best for your ADHD brain. To be successful at journaling we've got treat it like any other habit that we want to form and start off easy - by thinking ahead we can ...

Oct 28, 2019•15 min•Ep. 6

Goals, Strategies and Tactics

Find the full show notes at HackingYourADHD.com/podcast/GST Today we're going to be exploring the differences between goals, strategies and tactics. Simply put: Goals are a desired result we want to achieve. Strategies are the processes we use to achieve goals. Tactics are actions we take to implement strategies. Let's take a look at an example. A while back I decided to set the goal planning my week every week. My strategy at the time was to do my planning on Monday's right when I started work....

Oct 21, 2019•14 min•Ep. 5

Working With Your ADHD

It's easy to get caught up in what neurotypicals do for productivity that we can forget that we're not neurotypical, we have ADHD. And when you've got ADHD sometimes you need to do things differently because our brains are wired differently. Even though neurotypicals sometimes struggle with a lot of the same issues that we are struggling with it doesn't mean we should always be trying the same strategies and tactics to get over those hurdles. What we need to do is find ways to work with our ADHD...

Oct 14, 2019•14 min•Ep. 4

How to Remember Anything

ADHD can make it hard to remember all the things that you need to remember on a daily basis. Things get forgotten and we end up missing important appointments because they simply slipped our mind. While everyone can have trouble with memory, it can be especially hard on those of us with ADHD because of how memory works with executive function. When we are thinking about memory it is important to distinguish between long-term memory and short-term memory. Long-term memory holds memories from week...

Oct 07, 2019•13 min•Ep. 3

Timing Your Day

ADHD can make it very hard for us to accurately tell what time it is now, how much time is left, and how quickly time is passing. This is referred to as time blindness and it creates a host of issues for those of us with ADHD. When you are unable to accurately tell what time it is, you are going to be late. When you don't know how long something is going to take, you are either going to take too long to finish or finish well before you predicted. When we are unable to accurately gauge how much t...

Oct 07, 2019•14 min•Ep. 2

Building Your Toolbox

ADHD can make it hard for us to work on our intentions. This is even harder when we forget the things that we want to do. When you are learning about new ADHD strategies while reading books or listening to podcasts (like this one!) it is really easy to forget your intention of implementing those strategies. In these instances when we learn about a new tool, what we can do is write down our intended strategy and put it into our ADHD Toolbox. Our toolbox is simply a way for us to record the strate...

Oct 05, 2019•12 min•Ep. 1

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