Have you ever tried body doubling? It’s a fascinating approach to enhancing focus and productivity that’s particularly effective for ADHD brains. Providing structure and accountability while minimizing distraction, body doubling is an effective strategy to add to your ADHD toolkit. In episode 204 of the I’m Busy Being Awesome podcast, we’re taking a deep dive
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Are you ready for an unpopular opinion? There isn’t a universal “best” approach to schedules, routines, habits, or planners. It’s true. There isn’t a universal “right” or “wrong” morning routine, or one scheduling approach for peak productivity. Instead, there’s the “best” approach to create the perfect schedule for you. It’s all about finding what’s most
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Endings and new beginnings. We navigate them often throughout our lives. And as Mr. Rogers reminds us, “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” I recently closed a 16-year chapter of my life when I waved goodbye to Massachusetts with teary eyes and a grateful
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You know those moments when you look back and think to yourself, “Where the heck did the time go?” Well, that’s what you’re uncovering today – how to slow time down by taking action. It may happen on a small scale… Or a bigger scale… My guess is your brain has these moments, too. If
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Today we’re celebrating 200 episodes of the podcast. Wow! When I started the I’m Busy Being Awesome podcast back in 2019, I had no idea what to expect… and because of that, my brain loved spinning in doubt. Now, nearly four years and 200 episodes later, I can say with certainty that I do like
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Let’s be honest; our ADHD brains move lightning-fast, right? In a matter of moments, we bounce from: If you’re anything like me, the temptation to multitask in situations like this is strong. Your brain likely tells you, “it’ll be so much faster if I do a few things at once.” But in my own experience,
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Let’s talk about how to stay on task with ADHD, shall we? If you’re anything like me, when you first embark on one of your brilliant ideas, you have every intention of finishing it. But before you know it, you’ve moved on to something new and your list of unfinished tasks has grown surprisingly long…leaving
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Do you have ADHD or ADHD tendencies? Then you’re in the right place. Today I’m sharing with you three key lessons to help you better understand yourself while navigating the nuanced complexity of an ADHD brain. These are critical lessons that every person with an ADHD brain deserves to know. And I invite you to
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Learning how to make a change with ADHD can be a tough one. “Change is the only constant in life.” This quote used to leave me feeling untethered. Uncertain. Lacking control. (Not surprisingly…my brain didn’t like it.) But then I realized something. While I can’t control all the changes happening around me… I do have
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