How Accountability Drives Success for ADHD Business Owners
Implementing accountability can serve as a valuable tool for improving executive functions and overcoming these obstacles. By providing structure, guidance, and support, accountability mechanisms can help ADHDers strengthen their planning abilities, enhance organisational skills, and manage their time more effectively.
Breaking the Cycle: Strategies for preventing burnout for ADHD business owners
In honour of Stress Awareness Month, let's delve into what ADHD burnout looks like for business owners like yourself and explore practical strategies to manage and prevent it. The constant juggling act of managing tasks, dealing with distractions, and staying focused can take its toll, leading to a phenomenon known as ADHD burnout.
Celebrating Neurodiversity: Embracing Differences and empowering Strengths
Neurodiversity represents the diverse range of human minds, including various neurological differences that influence how people see, experience and engage with the world.
Neurodiversity Celebration Week is about embracing and celebrating the unique perspectives, talents, and skills that neurodivergents (neurodiverse individuals) bring to our lives and society.
In this blog, we’ll cover what Neurodiversity is, celebrate strengths, recognise challenges neurodiverse people face and what it means to me.
ADHD 101: what you need to know
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, affects millions of children and adults around the world. It can significantly impact a person's daily life, making it important to understand the different types, challenges and symptoms. ADHD is a condition characterised by persistent patterns of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that can affect an individual's ability to function in various life domains, such as school, work and social relationships. It is important to note that ADHD isn't about bad behaviour, mental health problems or learning disabilities. It’s not a result of laziness, lack of intelligence or poor parenting; it is a neurodevelopmental disorder. In simpler terms, it's about how our brains are wired. And they take longer to develop!
ADHD and Executive Dysfunction: What are Executive Functions
Executive dysfunction is like your brain's different departments not functioning efficiently, and they certainly aren't communicating well. It's like your GPS sending you in circles or your tidy-up crew taking an unplanned coffee break. For ADHD or neurodivergent individuals, executive dysfunction often arises due to unique brain wiring. This can lead to a range of challenges as these crucial functions, like planning, organisation, and impulse control, aren't operating at full capacity.