Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

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Clear Clutter in a Hurry! Jun 02, 2015

Show notes

If you’re struggling with ADHD, you know this feeling. Go ahead and do a slow turn around your room or office. Look at all the surfaces — tables, chairs, floor — how’s your clutter? The ADHD mind has the powerful ability to tune it out, to make it invisible, until the subconscious pressure of the clutter around you becomes too much to handle. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk about clearing the clutter in your home in a hurry with a few quick daily strategies that can help you get out of the clutter rut!

And don’t forget to download the latest batch of free forms and templates to get the new “15 Minute Organizing Tips” we talk about on the show!

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Fight Focus Failure at the Computer with Four Fascinating Fixes! May 26, 2015

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We’ve been talking about focus this month and this week’s digital episode continues the theme. We’re talking about fighting focus failure with four prime strategies to keep you working free of distraction. From using wifi toggling to save yourself from the lure of the Internet to selective notifications, to full-screen apps, and our favorite tip on application complexity, there’s something in here for everyone whose fingers tickle the keyboard day-by-day!

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Focusing on your Strengths! May 19, 2015

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You’re in a job interview. Things are going well! You’re telling stories of your heroism and courage in facing down your greatest foes, growing businesses, the works. Then they ask the question: “Please describe your greatest strengths and weaknesses…"

You freeze! That’s because we, as humans, are terrible at realistically assessing our own strengths and weaknesses. It’s backed by research: we invariably rate our self-assessment either more optimistic or pessimistic compared to others’ observations of us. That’s why it’s so important to have a reliable feedback mechanism for determining and validating our strengths as we develop and mature our skills.

This week on the show, Nikki and Pete talk about the challenges of self-assessment and offer a pair of terrific suggestions that you can use to discover your strengths right now.

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Shopping Online and Staying Focused! May 12, 2015

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When you sit down to shop online, do you have the same intention and agenda that you have when you shop in brick and mortar stores? Sure, from time to time we might go shopping for fun, but most of the time, when we hit the bricks, it’s to run errands, pick up specific things, and get back to the business of the day. If you’re struggling with ADHD, my bet is that you have more trouble shopping online and keeping your focus on your goal than you make like to admit!

This week on the show, we have five tips for managing your time and attention while shopping online — save money while relieving stress and getting things done!

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Digital — Get your Routines in Order! May 05, 2015

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We all know repetition can get boring. It stinks to feel like we’re stuck in a rut of humdrum rinse and repeat! Still, if you have any commitments that you have to repeat each day, week, month… you’d better have a system in place to manage them and make sure you don’t miss a beat.

This week on the show, we’re talking all about routines — those strings of tasks that you have to complete in order to accomplish a goal. And because it’s a digital episode, Pete Wright walks through three systems for managing your sets of routines, plus a bonus app for managing your kids’ chores, too!

Links & Notes

Omnifocus
Evernote
HomeRoutines
DailyRoutine — Update: No longer in active development.
Bonus: iAllowance

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Follow Through and Finish What You Start! Apr 27, 2015

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We got some great questions after last week’s episode on prioritizing and it turns out we may feel alone, but we’re in good company! As it turns out, many of you are also struggling with this of overload, which leads to our collective inability to follow through on our projects, tasks, and goals. This week, we help identify the potential cause of your follow through problem, and give you four solutions to move you through the mire and find the light of accomplishment!

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Overwhelm and Prioritizing Tolerations Apr 20, 2015

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It’s a big show! First, some follow-up from last week on tolerations. We answer a great question from a listener around how to address another sort of tolerations, and how to fight the overwhelm that comes from over-commitment. How do you get from a place of overwhelm toward a place of feeling more in control and progressing forward? This week on the show, we offer strategies for dealing with the stress of over-commitment that brings liberation and hope, too!

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ADHD and Creating a Lifestyle to Crush your Tolerations! Apr 06, 2015

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It’s been nearly 100 episodes since we last talked tolerations, and we have (ahem) a lot to report. This week, we’re taking a step back to look at the impact of ADHD noise on our tolerations. We look at the positive emotional and creative impacts of building a lifestyle in which we acknowledge, cultivate, and complete our tolerations.

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Digital — Reading & Writing Tools to Conquer ADHD Distractions Mar 30, 2015

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Understanding ADHD means you’re coming to an understanding of the unique characteristics of ADHD and you. That can mean waking up to a whole world that all of the sudden doesn’t work the way you always thought it did! Today on the show, Pete Wright shares a few key systems and technologies that can help you get back on track by evaluating how you write, and how you read. Thanks to a few old techniques and new tools, you can begin to build living systems that fit your unique ADHD challenges!

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Vulnerability, Uncertainty, & Confusion as a Doorway to Learning Mar 23, 2015

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We’re turning the corner on vulnerability this week, talking about transition stories. What is it like to make the leap from chaos, no idea that there is a definition for your experience, to understanding, learning about your ADHD and building systems that allow you to reach for peace? This week on the show, Pete Wright and Nikki Kinzer talk about the vulnerability required to make that leap forward in your life, and how important it is to reframe confusion as a positive, a doorway to learning.

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