Learn from Skye Rapson, an ADHD coach, about the power of routines and systems for thriving with ADHD. Discover how personalized routines can reduce overwhelm and stress, and how developing systems can support weaknesses. Get insights on creating and adjusting routines to navigate ADHD in daily life and achieve your goals.
Establishing routines reduces stress and boosts productivity for individuals with ADHD.
Customizing routines to suit individual strengths and weaknesses is key to leveraging ADHD for success.
Deep dives
The Power of Routines in Reducing Stress and Boosting Productivity
Establishing routines can significantly reduce stress and increase productivity. Routines aid in stress reduction, enhance productivity, improve focus, manage time effectively, and provide clarity on daily responsibilities, such as medication schedules and meal times.
Navigating Academic Success with ADHD and Burnout
Individuals with ADHD, like a doctoral candidate in the podcast, discuss how routines help them navigate academic success and manage burnout. Recognizing ADHD-related challenges in sustaining academic achievements, they highlight the role of systems and routines in leveraging ADHD strengths to counteract weaknesses.
Tailoring Routines to Individual Needs and Preferences
The discussion emphasizes the importance of customizing routines based on individual needs and preferences. Recognizing that generic routines may not suit neurodiverse individuals, the podcast focuses on creating flexible routines that cater to personal strengths and weaknesses, emphasizing the importance of experimentation and adaptation.
Overcoming Overwhelm Through Routine Development and Emotional Regulation
Routines are highlighted as tools to combat overwhelm and manage emotional regulation in individuals with ADHD. By developing grounding and resetting routines, individuals can navigate overwhelming situations, improve emotional well-being, and create structure to support daily tasks and responsibilities.
One of the best ways to thrive with adult ADHD is through effective routines and proper systems. It's also great if the important things in your life have a place where you can find them.
Effective routines that are tailored to our lives and our careers help guide us throughout the day and provide tremendous benefits for reducing the stress of having ADHD.
This week we have Skye Rapson on the podcast who is the founder of the Unconventional Organisation based in Auckland New Zealand. Skye and her team offer ADHD coaching and other services and everything are offered by those with ADHD.
Many people with ADHD feel they are stuck but Skye is a doctoral candidate. She is living proof that people with ADHD can thrive and achieve the goals they want. She discusses briefly how she has been able to navigate school and other life commitments to get to this point in her life.
Skye and her team focus a lot on routines with their clients including how they work closely to identify overwhelmed and create strategies to reduce overwhelming behavior with ADHD. She discusses how they do that.
Skye and Dave also have a discussion about the importance of developing systems because they do support our weaknesses.
Skye walks us through a process for creating routines in your life when you have ADHD. She also says that we need to consistently revisit our routines because circumstances in life and our careers are changing all the time. It's important to adjust where needed.
Dave and Skye also talk about how creating proper systems and routines can reduce the effects of burnout. Running around scattered all day only creates stress and anxiety and will ultimately lead to burnout.