Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support

Adult ADHD Tips – Top 10 Things I’ve Learned from Life Coaching

Sep 18, 2024

Discover ten essential insights from life coaching tailored for adults navigating ADHD. Learn about the common positive traits that foster growth and the key challenges individuals face. Explore what changes are easy and which require patience, highlighting the fastest progress traits. Uncover the single most impactful action for long-term improvement. Embrace personal strengths while managing expectations and building a supportive community. This engaging discussion offers a roadmap to resilience and self-acceptance.

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Quick takeaways

Understanding the connection between strengths and challenges allows individuals with ADHD to embrace their unique qualities and develop effective coping mechanisms.

Establishing a supportive community of life coaches, mentors, and friends is vital for navigating the complexities of ADD and promoting long-lasting change.

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Insights from Life Coaching

Life coaching offers valuable insights into managing challenges associated with ADD and ADHD. Individuals often experience common difficulties such as time management problems, procrastination, and lack of effective systems to follow through on tasks. Moreover, the coaching experience reveals that strengths and challenges are intricately connected, with traits like impulsivity translating into creative and adventurous instincts. Recognizing these patterns helps individuals develop coping mechanisms while embracing their unique qualities.

Intro

5min

Navigating Career Transitions and Embracing Individual Strengths

11min

Essential Insights for Personal Growth and Resilience

14min

Building Support and Resources for Personal Growth

2min

Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. Top 10 Things I’ve Learned from Life Coaching. This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

In this episode, I share my top 10 insights from my life coaching practice. Having started as a coach in 2007, I may be able to provide a bit of perspective on what an effective support system can look like. I’ll offer a few insights into what it looks like to work with our particular wiring over the span of many years. What can change? What can’t? Which actions can make the biggest difference in the long run? Specifically, I’ll discuss:

What are the most common positive traits shared by all of my clients
What are the most common challenges
What’s easy to change
What can take a long time to shift
What is the common trait among the people that progress the fastest
What’s the one action that can make the biggest positive difference in the long term

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