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28/08/2026

So many distractions, so little time.

Me: Ugh, I really need to do my accounts.

And Me: ooh, this article says there are 18 species of penguin. I can only name three.

Also me: "Hey Google, list all 18 penguin species…"

27/08/2026

We are masters of the crisis.

We thrive under pressure because the adrenaline creates the dopamine we lack.

But what about the boring, everyday admin? 📉

That's the 'Silent Killer' of ADHD productivity because the stakes are too low.

We don't need a to-do list - we need a stakes list.

Save this for the next time you're stuck in 'freeze mode' and need to force the engine to start.

26/08/2026

Stop trying to make your brain focus. Its like pushing a wet noodle up a hill.

The "False Deadline" hack:

1. Set a timer for 15 minutes - not to finish the task, just to warm up the engine.

2. Schedule a distraction intermission - put (a strict) 10 minutes in your calendar straight after for something mindless like scrolling, stretching, a walk.

3. Repeat but grow the work block by 5 minutes each time.

This works because you are giving your wandering mind a slot. The brain stops rebelling because it knows it's getting a turn.

Give the brain a turn and it gives you the work back.

Try it and let me know if this works for you

25/08/2026

Time doesn't fly. It orbits.
And your hyperfocus is the thing it's orbiting.

Think about Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. The pull between two objects depends on mass and distance.

For the neurotypical brain everything has equal mass. A spreadsheet weighs the same as a YouTube video, so they just work down the to-do list.

For the ADHD brain, interest is mass. The moment something triggers our dopamine its mass becomes infinite. It bends the space-time continuum around it.
That project isn't just interesting; it's a black hole. It pulls all your cognitive energy into its orbit and time slows down around it.

That's why you look up and six hours have gone. It's not a lack of discipline. The object's mass warped your timeline.

So if you want to stop procrastinating stop trying to manage the clock. Start managing the mass of the task. (And yes, time management tools still help. But first you have to understand what you're actually managing.)

How do we make the boring stuff heavier?

If you live in this warped reality, let me know in the comments.

23/08/2026

22/08/2026

Your calendar thinks you run at one steady speed all day.
But like all ADHD brains, yours doesn’t
Three signs your business is fighting your natural rhythm.

Signal 1:
You plan like a machine but work like a human. Your calendar assumes constant focus and back-to-back capacity with no interruptions when the truth is, you are context-switching all day because people can reach you whenever they like.

Signal 2:
You overload your good days. The moment you feel some energy you take on more, reply to everything and say yes too quickly, then you vanish for a couple of days trying to recover.

Signal 3
Your structure falls apart by midweek because it was never really structure. It had no boundaries, no protection and nothing but willpower holding it up. The first time the pressure rose, it collapsed.

This means you need a business that protects your time, controls who gets access to you and works with your energy flows, the peaks and the troughs.
I can help you map that.

Book a free 15-minute call and we can look at where to start.

19/08/2026

You didn't fail that task.
You just did it at the wrong time.

Yesterday we looked at tracking your peak and trough times across the day. Like most people, your focus does not stay level, it rises and falls.

Focused thinking only works when your brain is sharp, in your peak time. Put a demanding job there and you finish it well and fast.

The same job in a trough drags on, stalls and comes out badly, if it gets done at all.

Less challenging admin tasks demand far less of you so do those in your troughs.

Try it tomorrow, it only takes a minute:

• Look through your calendar
• Take the single hardest job, the one you keep pushing later and later
• Move it into one of your peak hours and block that hour so nothing else can take it
• Do the reverse with a less taxing admin job and send it into an afternoon trough

One hard task in a peak hour, one dull task in a trough.

Do the same each day this week so that the important work gets your brain at its sharpest rather than its most fried.


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18/08/2026

Map your Energy Flow
To do your best work
When you are at your best

You look at your calendar and it is not even full yet, by mid-afternoon, you are behind, frazzled and completely wrung out.

That is your energy curve.

For an ADHD brain, focus and motivation do not stay level, they move.
You might be sharp from half nine to eleven, slow to a crawl after lunch, then pick up again late in the day.

Most people plan as if that pattern does not exist.
So the hardest work ends up wherever there is space, usually in the afternoon dip.

You sit there, staring at the screen, starting and restarting, getting nowhere, then deciding you are the problem. In reality, it’s just that the timing was wrong.

That dip is useful. It repeats, which means you can map it.

Monitor your normal working week and record what your brain is doing.

Keep it simple.

Each time you switch tasks, mark it:

• High - work that needed thinking
• Medium - communication or coordination
• Low - routine or admin

Do it on paper or in the corner of your notebook. Do not analyse it during the day.

At the end of the week, look for the pattern.

Three recent client examples:
• Client 1: PEAK: 7–10am, 12–2pm, 6–10pm | TROUGH: 10–12pm, 2–4pm
• Client 2: TROUGH: mornings | PEAK: midday to 8pm
• Client 3: PEAK: 10–2pm | TROUGH: 2–4pm and early evening

Different waves, same principle.

Once you can see your pattern, place your work accordingly.

High: work that requires thought, concentration, focus
Medium: work that needs attention but not deep thinking - emails, messages, meetings, coordination
Low: filing, routine tasks, anything you can do on autopilot

You are not fixing the dip. You are using it.


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17/08/2026

When was the last time you spent far too long looking for a photo you knew you had?

My cousin, now a grandmother to a one-year-old, sent me some lovely family pictures. I wanted to send her two photos of my niece and nephew, who are now five and eight and growing far too quickly.

What should have taken a minute took nearly an hour.

I scrolled through thousands of photos of family, dogs, cats and farm animals from my previous business. They were spread across my phone, laptop and cloud, all with helpful names like IMG_4827.
I knew the photos were there. Finding them was the problem.

It’s one of those dull, time-consuming jobs that isn’t urgent enough to make it onto the list but stays irritatingly difficult every time you need something.

You can sort it manually: group the dogs, then the cats, then the children, rename everything and move it into folders but it takes hours.

Which is exactly why most of us never start.

This time, I had a reason to get it done, so I worked through it with Claude Cowork - one of my AI colleagues - rather than tackling it all alone.

I still had to steer the process because bulk organising needs human judgement but it was quicker, more logical and, most importantly, my photos are now findable.

This is the kind of job I help many of my clients with. Not because they’re incapable of doing it but because it’s time-consuming, requires a lot of decisions and is easy to keep putting off when more urgent work keeps getting in the way.

How many photos are currently sitting on your phone with names like IMG_ # # # #?

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16/08/2026

I don't have app sprawl.
I have a carefully curated collection of abandoned fresh starts.