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Category: Entrepreneurs with ADHD

• Crush Overwhelm in Five Promising Ways for More Success with ADHD
  We all experience overwhelm but when you live with ADHD, autism, and related neurodivergent conditions, it’s common to experience overwhelm consistently in your daily life. Here are five promising ways to crush overwhelm so you can achieve more success with ADHD.

• Relationship Struggles? How to Fulfill Your Needs and Strengthen Intimacy with ADHD
  Forgetfulness, distractibility, and emotional dysregulation can lead to frustration, misunderstanding, and resentment in relationships. Here are three ways to strengthen your communication so you can have more intimacy and connection when you live with ADHD.

• Three Powerful Ways to Embrace Self-Compassion with ADHD
  Do you beat yourself up when you’re late for a meeting, miss a deadline, or make a mistake? Do you silently tell yourself you’re no good, and call yourself a failure? When you live with ADHD, self-criticism can become a harsh, internal dialogue, which gets in the way of success. Here are three powerful ways to unlock self-criticism and embrace self-compassion so you can live a more satisfying life.

• ADHD and Impulse Control: How to Really Help Yourself Regulate
  When you live with ADHD and related challenges, you can run into difficulties holding back your initial response to a situation. You want to put on the brakes so you can make better choices, but your brain’s command center is like a runaway train racing down the tracks. Here are three proven ways to manage impulse control so you can help yourself regulate.

• ADHD and Gaslighting: How to Easily Gain More Confidence and Control
  When you live with ADHD, you can be vulnerable to unintentional gaslighting that can lead to self-doubt, as if you can’t do anything right. Here are three ways to manage unintentional gaslighting and easily gain confidence and control.
  
  

• How to Unlock ADHD Brain Freeze and Actually Strengthen Your Impact
  As an ADHD’er, you know what you need to do, but it can be challenging doing what you know. When you have piles of projects, tasks, and responsibilities, it can be so overwhelming that your brain freezes into shut-down mode. Here are three ways to unlock ADHD brain freeze so you can strengthen your impact and get the results you want.

• Don't Let ADHD Burn You Out: Six Powerful Ways to Unmask Your Full Potential
  Do you tend to hide your impulsivity, hyperactivity, or attention challenges, to avoid judgment, criticism, or social rejection? Masking -- or camouflaging your ADHD symptoms — is a coping mechanism that exerts a significant toll on mental health, self-esteem, and social relationships. Here are six ways to overcome burnout so you can unmask your full potential, enhance your well-being, and live a more satisfying life.

• Boost Online Traffic with Headline Analyzer Studio by Coschedule for Entrepreneurs with ADHD

  When you're an entrepreneur with ADHD it can be challenging to narrow down your topic so you can drive your clients and customers to all your great content and products.  Now there’s a new tool called Headline Analyzer Studio by Coschedule that can make your headlines go from passable to amazing. Here's how you can zero in on the unique features of this great new tool so you can boost your traffic and shine.   


• Three Proven Ways to Organize with Calm and Take Charge of Your ADHD Now!

  When you live with ADHD, it’s not uncommon to feel tense, burdened, and uncertain about how to get and stay organized. This doesn’t mean there is something wrong with you. It means it’s time to start working with your unique brain, so you're not buried under a pile of chaos, stress, and overwhelm. Here are three proven ways to organize with calm and take charge of your ADHD now!


• Boost Your Executive Functioning in Nine Exciting Ways with ADHD Now!

  We all have strengths and weaknesses in our executive functioning. We can be extremely intelligent and have challenges with executive functioning. Yet, when you live with ADHD and executive functioning challenges, difficulties in one or more executive functions can affect your performance and make it tough for your strengths to shine. Here are nine exciting ways to boost your performance and accomplish what's important to you.


• Four Powerful Ways to Embrace Life with Regret and ADHD

  Do you find yourself repeatedly going over the details of your previous interactions? Do you persistently search for anything you could have missed or said that was out of place? Individuals with ADHD tend to replay events, painstakingly reviewing the details of possible mishaps or situations that could have happened years ago. Here are four powerful ways to embrace life with regret and ADHD so you can find live a more meaningful life.


• Four Ways to Stop Ruminating and Unlock Overwhelm with ADHD

  Do you feel overloaded with a tsunami of stuff to do but worry about getting it done? Do you consistently feel like you’re in a state of overwhelm but your racing thoughts shut you down? Here are four ways to stop ruminating and unlock overwhelm, so you can accomplish what’s important to you.


• Six Unique Ways ADHD Coaching Fulfills Your Life with Empowerment

  You want to make your life ADHD-friendly but it’s more complicated than you expected. Whether you’re a parent or adult, you decide to seek out a coach so you can better manage your ADHD and your ADHD doesn’t manage you. Here are six unique ways ADHD Coaching fulfills your life with ADHD with empowerment.


• Eliminate Guesswork with Marketing Schedule by Coschedule for Entrepreneurs with ADHD!
  When you live with ADHD, it can be tough to stay on track of all the moving parts of running a business from triaging endless emails, managing multiple projects, and sharing lots of great content with your customers and clients.

• Master Feeling Intense Emotions in Three Reliable Ways with ADHD

  Many adults and kids with ADHD feel their emotions more intensely than others and struggle with staying calm and being flexible. It’s common to react impulsively, feel overwhelmed and frustrated, give up quickly, and withdraw or avoid situations.
  Here are three reliable ways to master feeling intense emotions when you live with ADHD. 


• Overcome Time Blindness in Three Masterful Ways and Gain Calm with ADHD

  Do you feel like you’re at war with yourself when it comes to managing your time? Whether you post sticky notes in every nook and cranny, set reminders on all your devices, or ask Alexa for verbal reminders, productive use of time can be unsettling, daunting, and disorienting. Here are three strategies to overcome time blindness so you can have more peace and calm living with ADHD.


• Set Limits Clearly: How to Protect Your Time to Safeguard Your Needs with ADHD

  Many of us struggle with too much to do and too little time. When you live with ADHD, the concern for the loss of approval and the fear of not doing your best for others’ sake, makes speaking up to safeguard your time extremely difficult. Here are three ways to clearly set limits so you can protect yourself, your rights, and your well-being.


• Sleep and ADHD: How to Overcome Exhaustion and Actually Revive Your ADHD Brain

  It’s tough for the ADHD brain to ditch all the fun it’s having and succumb to sleep.  Yet, losing sleep can result in comorbid sleep disorders, mood disorders, dementia, memory and learning problems, heart disease, depression, anxiety, weight gain, injuries, and depressed immune function to name a few.  Here are three strategies to overcome exhaustion so you can awaken refreshed and revived and keep your ADHD brain strong.  


• Make Confident Decisions: How to be Bold and Really Commit with ADHD

  When living with ADHD there’s a tendency to get caught up in decision-making dilemmas. It’s not uncommon to get overwhelmed by mountains of information and details and get lost in the pros and cons. Here are four strategies for making decisions so you can make confident choices and commit to your decisions.   


• Strengthen Memory Abilities: Five Proven Ways to Really Boost Your Unique ADHD Brain

  Do you struggle with keeping up with important details in conversations? Does your mind ping with everything you need to do, so you "do it all" right away before you forget? Do you make a mental list for the grocery store, but then forget the list and what you need?  You may be struggling with working memory challenges. When you live with ADHD and other brain-based conditions, working memory can become chaotic and incomplete. Here are five strategies to build your working memory so you can follow through, stay accountable, and remember what’s most important to you.


• Fear of Failure: Strengthen Confidence in Three Powerful Ways Living with ADHD

  When live you with ADHD, it’s not uncommon to feel as if you can’t do anything right. If you experience Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), to give something your best shot and fail is a threat that’s so distressing that it feels unsafe. Here are three ways to confront the fear of failure so you can strengthen your confidence and achieve what’s most important to you.   


• ADHD and Delegating: How to Stop the Panic

  Whether you run your own business, have a crazy-busy home life, or want to involve the kids more, delegating helps you focus your time and energy on the activities that are meaningful. Delegating requires planning and organization that doesn't always come naturally to the ADHD brain, and as a result, can be stressful to take on. Here are three ways to get the ball rolling with delegating when you live with ADHD.  


• Overcome the Burdens of High Achievement and ADHD

  You’re the accomplished, go-to person whom people count on, and just about everyone does. But the piled-up projects, numerous spinning plates, and mounting stress have gotten to be too much. Here are three strategies to assist you in overcoming the burdens of living with high achievement and ADHD.


• How to Conquer the Misery of Getting Started with ADHD

  Procrastination isn’t unique to people with ADHD, but it’s experienced more extremely and more consistently. For the ADHD'er, consistent feelings of “I’m not good enough,” “what will people think of me,” “this is hard,” or “what if I do a bad job,” are negative associations with doing certain tasks that tend to worsen putting them off. 


• How to Prioritize When You Live with ADHD

  Prioritizing is tough for everyone these days. But it can be especially stressful to prioritize for individuals and families living with ADHD, when there’s so much that needs to get done and just about everything wins out as equally important. 


• ADHD and Vulnerability: How to Reboot Under Stress

  As the world’s shifted over the past month, it’s logical to tell ourselves to crank it up and knock off the projects looming on our to-do list.  But when the ADHD brain senses danger or stress it powers down to survival mode causing less effective problem-solving and vulnerability to perceived failure.


• How to Transition in These Scary Times with ADHD

  With COVID-19 and shelter-in-place recommendations, the transition to staying at home isn't easy. It's understandable to have challenges balancing your kids' e-learning with working at home, or keeping up with your business while staying motivated. 


• ADHD and Uncertain Times: How to Get Things Done Now!

  In these uncertain times, it’s tough to manage our work, our families, and ourselves. Add the extra layer of living with ADHD and related challenges, and it can be overwhelming to problem-solve, make decisions, communicate and follow-through. 


• How to Stop the Tug of War with Routines and ADHD

  When you live with ADHD, you face the ongoing tug-of-war between your need for structure and order and your craving to appeal to the creative, spontaneous side of who you are.