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Focus, starting, and ADHD
Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.
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Implementation intentions
Putting things off is mood repair rather than laziness: delay removes the bad feeling straight away and the cost lands later. So the move is not more willpower, it is a plan specific enough to run without a decision.
One move, today
Write one sentence: when it is [time] and I am at [place], I will [the first small action]. Naming when and where is the part the evidence supports.
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3 practicesA deadline you privately know is soft has no pull at all. If six o'clock really means midnight, then ten in the morning means nothing, and the whole day drifts until the panic arrives.
One man working from home lost his evenings this way for years, and it was his relationship rather than his employer that paid for it. If the true…
Put the rules up on the wall where everyone can see them, and put the child's own version on a card on their desk.
A rule that lives only in memory is not there in the second it is needed, which is the second something more interesting has just walked past. A card…
Some children need to move, and the choice is whether that movement is allowed for or whether it arrives as a disruption later on.
A ball chair, a standing desk, a seat near the front, or permission to walk to the back and return with a nod and nothing said: any of these let the…