Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with ADHD, ADD

Adults with ADHD can make more career decisions than others. There are many reasons for this, including boredom, not being challenged, and other reasons, such as overwork and burnout. Reevaluating your career, which will affect your overall life, is a process that should not be done with impulsiveness. Thought and care need to be put into your next career move and life change. Alex Gilbert from Cape-Able Consulting joined Dave on Overcoming Distractions to talk about how to be methodical about new life choices and the signs that you may need to make changes in your life. Alex brings up several great discussion points about reevaluating your career and life choices. She says to ask yourself, “what do I want and what do I need in a career? She said it might be time to evaluate your career and your job if you experience the following. Having trouble getting up in the morning. Being constantly reprimanded at work may indicate the wrong job or career. Working in a toxic environment. You feel bored or not challenged. You continue to feel stressed out and experience anxiety. Alex takes us through many important tips to get you thinking about your next move. Find Alex at: https://www.capeableconsulting.com/

In this mini episode of Overcoming Distractions, Dave talks about how important having clarity is when you are an adult with ADHD. Having clarity in all areas of your life is an important goal to pursue, but in the workplace, it is crucial to thriving and surviving in a job or a career. Dave talks about the hazards when we lack clarity in certain areas, including procrastination. He also talks about why lack of clarity leads to stress and anxiety. Dave gives you a checklist to achieve more clarity, especially in the workplace. So grab a pen and a fresh notebook, listen, and absorb this short podcast on ADHD and clarity. If you are an adult with ADHD and have just been diagnosed, check out Dave's new video program. You can find it at www.OvercomingDistractions.com.

Have you ever wondered if you should disclose your ADHD to your employer, boss, or coworkers? Maybe even your clients? First, this is your choice, but hopefully this discussion will help you make the right choice for your situation. This week we have back Grant Crowell, Author of Grantasms Creative twisted words for cool people!  and a self-professed social wordsmith. Grant has been an employee and a contractor he's talked about his ADHD, and in some cases, he hasn't talked about his ADHD. In this discussion about disclosing your ADHD in the workplace, we cover the following: What are the negatives of disclosing your ADHD? The positive examples of disclosing ADHD. Resources available to understand your options for reasonable accommodations. What reasonable accommodations are in the workplace? Grant provides several tips to help you make the decision about disclosing your ADHD to your employer. Find an ally if possible. Obtain an official diagnosis of ADHD. Understand your strengths in the workplace. Don't wait too long if you need accommodations. Grant is hosting a webinar about how to get workplace accommodations for ADHD. The link is below as well as other links to connect with Grant. https://www.meetup.com/north-carolina-adults-with-adhd-education-group/events/289378244/ Find Grant’s book here: https://www.amazon.com/GRANTASMS-Creative-twisted-words-people-ebook/dp/B07ZY9JDPP Connect with him on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/GrantCrowell   

Have you just been diagnosed with adult ADHD or suspect you have ADHD? Maybe you want to go right back to the basics of managing your ADHD. Dave spends a few minutes on this shorter version of overcoming distractions on a few core parts of managing and thriving with adult ADHD. Dave tackles this subject in the way if he had to do it all over again. These are some of the core tactics and strategies as well as areas of life that every adult with ADHD it needs to focus on and improve. Dave has just launched a very affordable video program for people who have just been diagnosed with adult ADHD or want to learn more. You can find that here on the homepage. www.OvercomingDistractions.com

If you're looking for a little bit of motivation to kick your brain into gear, this episode of Overcoming Distractions will help you give you a bit of a kick start. Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, author of Brain Hacks and several other books on ADHD is back on the podcast, and she is joined by Pen King. Both are co-founders of Bonding Health. Pen is also a partner in a venture capital firm which requires him to be on his game. Both Lara and Pen off of their advice for giving your brain a little hacking. Lara says some of the more important things to consider when we are not feeling 100% is to recognize our feelings, create some type of action steps and create a list of our needs. She also outlines several questions you can ask yourself to get you thinking clearly again. Those include: —If I were more confident in myself, what would I do? —If I were more driven, what would I do? —If I were still age 10, what would I do? And more to get you thinking. Pen King discusses several things that he feels are important as a busy entrepreneur, including understanding the courage to move forward, being resourceful when you need it, and understanding how to use your energy when you have it. Learn more about bonding health here, which provides research-backed tools to help ADHD parenting. https://www.bondinghealth.com/

Konrad Sanders is the CEO and founder of the Creative Copywriter based in London. The agency focuses on copywriting and brand building for many brands, large and small. Konrad comes on Overcoming Distractions to discuss how he built his copywriting agency to be a 7-figure company, and he also discusses some of the challenges getting there as an adult with ADHD. He talks about many of the challenges he needed to overcome as an entrepreneur with ADHD, including: Gaining more focus The shiny object syndrome Wanting to do everything at once The challenge with completing tasks and projects Time management Burnout Konrad talks with Dave about the “must haves” an entrepreneur with ADHD needs to have in place to grow and thrive. Those include: Self-awareness about you and your ADHD. Understanding your weaknesses. You must have optimism. Drive and passion as an adult with ADHD. Understand there need to be processes in place. Identify and find people that complement your skills. Find Konrad here: https://www.creative-copywriter.net/ More about Overcoming Distractions and mentorships here: www.OvercomingDistractions.com

Those of us with ADHD need to find the activities that provide us energy and good dopamine and allow us to maintain a good mood in outlook on life. When we constantly engage in activities that deplete our energy and even sucked the life out of us, we begin to face many challenges. Laura MacNiven of the Springboard Clinic based in Canada is back on the podcast. Laura talks about why it is important for people with ADHD to find the activities in their life that provide them with energy. Those going to be professional such as a career or a job, or personal activities, such as hobbies that you enjoy. Laura, however says that it is a challenge for many with ADHD to understand their own wants and needs, and it is essential to check in with yourself regularly to gain more self-awareness around activities that either provide us energy or ZAP our energy. Dave and Laura also discuss the concept of being more productive in our lives by removing the activities that challenge our energy. Laura and Dave also talk about how many with ADHD can experience burnout faster than others because we may focus on activities and other areas of our life that are depleting our energy and causing us to feel exhausted. And Laura gives her tips to help us identify what energizes us, such as a career or a job or other areas of our life. And she discusses how we cut out the areas of our life that may be dragging us down and zapping our energy. Laura and the Springboard Clinic are offering several upcoming courses and they are listed below. They have also provided listeners of Overcoming Distractions with the coupon code, which is also below. Springboard ADHD ONLINE COURSE :  https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/85617/about  Springboard ADHD PARENTING ONLINE COURSE https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/86056/about  COUPON CODE: DAVE15 (15% off either the adult or parenting course) 

People from all walks of life and all careers can experience burnout at some level. And while this could be a silent epidemic, there needs to be more discussion about how burnout can affect our lives. Dave gives you an audio list of 14 things you must know about burnout in this short podcast. If you are going to recover from burnout and prevent it from entering your life in the future, these 14 important aspects of burnout are something you must get to know. Do you want to buy Dave’s book Overcoming Burnout? Click here to get the book! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WQ17T22  

Managing adult ADHD can be challenging for the best of us. Managing burnout can be a tremendous effort for many as well. When we have both, that presents circumstances that should cause us to take action to improve our well-being. This week we talk about adult ADHD, burnout, and many other challenges those of us face in our lives. Catherine Avery of Catherine Avery ADHD Coaching is the guest this week. Catherine discusses how she managed adult ADHD, two experiences of burnout, and recovery from cancer. She also discusses why she experienced burnout more than once and why she needed to make changes in her life after this second burnout. One key takeaway in this podcast from her experience with burnout is telling people to ask for help. Because Catherine is also a productivity and ADHD coach, she offers tips for improving productivity during stressful times. It's OK to be unproductive sometimes. Find a hobby or sport that you like. Meditation can help with productivity. Pause, plan, and prioritize. Save time by taking 10 minutes to plan your day. Find Catherine at; https://productivitybydesign.com/ Work with Dave at: www.OvercomingDistractions.com

If you can't seem to get out of your own way this week, this short podcast is a great way to learn how to hit the pause button and regroup. Dave talks about three incredibly simple things to do this week if you feel things have gotten out of control and turned into chaos. Because life gets busy and some weeks can get out of control, those of us with adult ADHD need to make it a practice to occasionally hit the pause button and regroup. Sometimes we allow our week to turn into chaos, and other times people around us have contributed to things getting out of control. Whatever the reasons are, Dave talks about how important it is to regroup regularly and three simple things you can do this week. Listen to the podcast and do these three very simple things now! Find Dave and learn how he can help you at www.OvercomingDistractions.com