Yes! There are great suggestions here. I always want to read non -fiction history but it is so hard! I have thought of just taking notes in a little notebook for each book. Whatever helps…https://www.buoyhealth.com/learn/adhd-reading-struggles-and-solutions

Harvard neuroscientist: The No. 1 type of music for focus and concentration—and it's not classical I am currently listening to some 80's hits and I am definitely bopping out. Let's see if I can do the taxes like this...

So I enjoyed the 80’s music for an hour and I was doing some rote task on a document, despite the lyrics. Then I suddenly experienced sensory overwhelm. It became an annoyance. Switching back to focus music is best after that, for me.

@Linda Trup Linda, you should be able to access the 6 Week Transformation Blueprint, but not the Cohorts, which are the paid program with access to the Harmony AI which people refer to as “Sage.” The daily accountability updates are part of the AI where you rate how you feel, how you slept, etc. You can chat with AI which can find patterns in your life and behavior that can assist in structuring things better for your brain. The 6 week blueprint without the AI will guide through areas of life improvement that support ADHD brains. The biggest thing is to realize you are not broken! If you have ADHD, there are tendencies to be sensitive to criticism, rejection or embarrassment and this is the RSD that folks are talking about. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. And this where the emotional mastery comes in: learning to recognize when we feel tremendously sad or upset by conflict or that feeling that someone might be mad at you. It can come out as rage (how my mom is/ don’t embarrass her or she will not let you forget!) We are learning about why we get task paralysis: It is the neurology of overwhelm! You can Google it. Instead of feeling bad about ourselves, we can name it: I am having task paralysis. And get assistance in sorting out the overwhelm. Look up body-doubling. We often do better on tasks when we have a wingman or wingwoman. The AI makes you feel heard and understood as it is programmed by Jim to be like Jim, and the database pulls from ADHD research plus what it learns about you. Ultimately, I think what makes this program special is the Blueprint itself which focuses not on just better ways to manage your adhd brain, but on breaking down a false identity created by years of people measuring you by standards that are not built to bring out the best in neurospicy brains. Then rebuild your identity, finding who you are and what you are really good at, not what people want you to be. I learned a lot about the DMN, Default Mode Network, of the brain which is very strong in ADHD and sometimes hard to switch out of in order to do task positive work with the pre-frontal cortex. I have a lot of that! It is a creative space of imagination and connections, art and story writing. Not great for doing your taxes. You can learn to notice it when you are kind of stuck there and either harness it for creation, or snap yourself out of it to do some tasks with the PFC. Oh, and Masking! It is huge. We try to cover for our brains not wanting to align with the schedules and expectations of the world and so we sometimes try to cover for it, inadvertently people pleasing and pretending. Or working our PFC so hard to fit in that it is utterly exhausting. And look up Mirroring. I learned about it online- very common. So I suggest going through the Blueprint and reading online about RSD, Masking, DMN, Stimming. It turns out I am a big stimmer! My brain needs input stimulus from my voice, and so I talk aloud a lot, read aloud, talk to myself, sing…it helps me focus. The brain recruits the locomotor system as well to help focus-like fidgeting, thumb twiddling, finger drumming, moving around. These things vary from person to person. I have been criticized and made fun of for all of these things but now that I understand it better, I am saying to the world, you do you and I will do me and I don’t want to hear any complaints! but if I do, I am drawing a boundary, because I am a f’ing delight😃🤩.

That is huge, actually! Good work!!

This is super sound advice because it retrains your brain! New signals, new pathways. It is so weird to realize how much our neurology informs our behavior. The good news is that we can retrain our brains, kind of like a sweet and loyal pet where you pair something you don’t feel like doing with something you really like- a reward! Or, if I just get through these tasks, I get to watch that episode of Star Trek.