Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Ages: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
Do you ever feel like your brain is a bit like trying to listen to a radio station that's just out of range? You know, those moments when you're trying to focus on one station (let's say, doing the laundry), but you keep getting interference from other stations (like that sudden urge to organize your bookshelf alphabetically by author's middle name)?
If this sounds all too familiar, then Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD might just be the friendly companion you need.
This book isn't a stuffy, clinical rundown of ADHD. It's more like a heart-to-heart chat with a good friend who just gets it. We'll unravel some of the myths and mysteries of the ADHD mind, learn why most self-help strategies don't work for us, and how we can develop strategies that work with our brain instead of against it.
Here's a taste of the fun, practical advice you'll find tucked inside:
• The 4 Cs of Motivation—Captivate, Create, Compete, Complete—geared toward building momentum and driving your ADHD brain toward success.
• Practical tips for developing habits and routines that don't feel like cruel and unusual punishment.
• Managing your energy and avoiding ADHD burnout.
• Navigating the clockless mind, including strategies for time estimation and managing chronic lateness.
• Emotional management strategies to overcome success amnesia, imposter syndrome, and rejection sensitivity.
• Strategies to remember the important stuff (and where you put your car keys).
• Understanding and managing your attention and navigating through irresistible tangents.
Extra Focus is like your personal roadmap to understanding and living with adult ADHD. It's a no-judgement zone filled with understanding and guidance from someone who understands what it's like to live with ADHD (in a world that doesn't seem to understand it).
But it's more than just a guide—it's a call to embrace your ADHD, to understand it, not as a limitation, but as a different way of experiencing the world. It's an invitation to step out of the shadows of misunderstanding and stigmatization, and into the light of self-awareness and acceptance.
So, are you ready to dive in and explore your unique brain in all its ADHD glory? Are you up for turning those daily struggles into opportunities for growth and self-understanding? Great! Grab a cup of coffee (or tea, or that smoothie you forgot you made earlier), curl up in your favorite reading spot, and let's get started with Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD.
Remember, we're all in this ADHD journey together, and there's no better time than now to start embracing our wonderful weird, sometimes chaotic, and utterly unique minds.
Reviews
Software developer Anderson debuts with a pragmatic guide to help adults with ADHD harness their unique skills and understand the thought patterns underpinning them. After reviewing ADHD types, traits, and presentations, Anderson goes on to outline how “body doubling”—working in the presence of another person—aids productivity, and how changing one’s environment stokes motivation. Readers are also encouraged to draft a list of “personal wins” to combat the “success amnesia” that can plague those with ADHD, who are often sensitive to rejection and likelier to focus more on negative experiences than positive ones. Anderson’s lifelong struggle with “chronic lateness” underpins his advice to keep a “log” of one’s travel times in order to plan better in the future. Elsewhere, he repackages common wisdom into catchy takeaways (for example, readers should “eat the ice cream first,” or start with easier tasks to “build up your motivation momentum” before tackling challenging ones). While the general overview sections are light on the science of ADHD, Anderson’s take your pick, low-stakes approach (readers should seek strategies that work for now and switch them up frequently) will appeal to those looking to simplify their day-to-day lives. Newly diagnosed readers in particular will find this a useful starting point. (Self-published)
