2219: Brain Music with Focus@Will with founder Will Henshall
Looking for focus? Like music? Have trouble focusing WITH music? We might just be able to help you out today! Focus@Will is a service offering personalized focus music to help you tune in to what you’re doing so that you can get it done. Will Henshall is the musician and inventor behind the service and joins us today to talk about the tool, the technology, and how it just might be your next secret weapon in your war on distraction.
2217: Falling in Love with your Productivity Tech with Brittany Smith
This week, Brittany Smith joins us to talk about technology and how it fuels productivity. We talk about battling the fear that comes from new tech tools, the overwhelm from that feeling of too much technology, and how you can actually find the spark of motivation hiding in an examination of the things that de-motivate you about your tools the most!
2216: What to Avoid when Planning Your Day
It's time to get into the weeds! Plan your day like a star with a few simple guides to keep in the back of your mind. Where do you start? First things first... don't skip!
2215: What to Avoid When Planning Your Week
This week on the show, we’re going to make the case that maybe, just maybe, you’re falling into one of three perilous traps that have impeded your successful efforts to plan. If you can get your hands around these three, you’re off to the races!
2214: How Accountability Partners Work
You've heard us talk about the value of accountability partners before, but what does that relationship look like? What do you ask of one another, and what can you expect? All that and more this week on the show!
2213: Unique ADHD Strategies That Work! At least most of the time! • Part 3
We’re wrapping up our series on strategies from our community for living our lives with ADHD that work... most of the time! This week, we’re talking all about organizing, alarms, and acceptance!
2212: Unique ADHD Strategies That Work! At least most of the time! • Part 2
We’re back and cranking through more incredible strategies from our community for living our lives with ADHD. This week, we’re talking all about finding focus and alarm tricks!
2211: Unique ADHD Strategies That Work! At least most of the time! • Part 1
This week, listener submissions to help you get started on projects and tackle task management!
2210: Living with ADHD: Stories from Our Listeners • Part 4
Our series continues with Kathleen’s story and her effort to build Getting Things Done® and the ever-evolving catalog of life goals and objectives into her digital tool of choice: Todoist. But it’s not just a story about Todoist, it’s a morality play about going all-in on a tool before you abandon it. Great lessons from a terrific listener this week!
458: Breaking Down ADHD Challenges
You know what it takes to break down tasks… we talk about that all the time. But what happens when you investigate the underlying ADHD challenge associated with it? You become an ADHD super-sleuth!
456: Procrastinating with Lynne Edris
We all let things slide. But procrastination with ADHD can lead to a set of behaviors that are tough to reset. This week on the show, ADHD coach Lynne Edris joins us to talk about her work with clients to do just that.
451: In the Shadow of the Haunt List: Productivity with Dr. Marilyn Paul
Dr. Marilyn Paul is a coach and organizational change consultant. She joins us today to talk about how to break the addiction to productivity without shame, free to own our ADHD brains and get things done our way.
433: Routines: When nothing's routine... and everything is!
We're all living day-to-day, week-to-week now. The distant future is out of our control. We know things are changing around us, the world is moving forward fluidly, and we know transition is always on the horizon... we just don't know when.
423: Sketchnoting: Visual Notetaking with Mike Rohde
We’re thrilled to have Mike Rohde on the show today, the originator of the Sketchnote. Mike teaches us what a sketchnote is, how to develop a practice, and how to use sketchnoting to embrace and engage information with pen and paper and get it into your head.
416: Managing Emotions During the ADHD Job Hunt with Dr. Doug Herr
Dr. Doug Herr joins us today to shepherd us through a conversation on ADHD in the job hunt. His unique approach to coaching individuals toward a more satisfactory career horizon, plus his experience as a psychotherapist living with ADHD, makes him the perfect guest this week.
415: Creating Realistic Goals
Today on the show we’re talking all about building realistic goals into your life. After a quick review of SMART goals, we’re diving deep into what it means to approach attainable behavior change that sticks!
404: Finding your ADHD recharge at the end of the day
Living with ADHD can be exhausting. But even at the end of a long day, responsibilities pile up. How do you recharge to stay focused… when your focus has lost its focus?
401: The Procrastination-Anxiety Loop
This week's question comes from a listener: how do you navigate the procrastination-anxiety loop that emerges when hyperfocus and disinterest collide head on? This week on the show, Nikki shares background on the conditions that allow this sort of hyperfocus and procrastination to occur, and tools to shape a response before it happens again.
398: Setting Up New Routines
From daily hygiene to writing that next report, this week on the show Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright take on the components of a great routine, and the mindset you’ll need to cultivate to make it stick.
392: Overcoming the Fear of Making Decisions
This week on the show, Nikki puts on the coaching hat to walk us through some of the questions that can help you walk out of decision paralysis and conquer your fear!