Attaching a specific task to a specific time can set you up to be frustrated by the difficulty in getting your ADHD brain to engage in a task that, for whatever reason, it is not interested in. Don’t do that if you can avoid it.

The fewer thoughts we hold in our head, the fewer things we ruminate on. Less rumination leads to better sleep.

We further found that the acute exercise-induced cognitive enhancements lasted longer than previously known, between 30 minutes and 2 hours after exercise cessation” (Basso et al. 2015).

Start By Finding Your Why

Success in one small thing typically leads to another and then another.

ADHD brains are predisposed to focusing on negative emotions and experiences.

These alternate approaches can help us do things our brains wouldn’t otherwise do. They make things like planning, goal setting, and habit creation doable. But they typically don’t make it easy. Convincing your brain to do something that does not come naturally is work.

Without enough fuel, the brain’s functioning is impaired.

keeping them out of the “not now” bucket. We will examine that next.