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Learn to Thrive with ADHD Podcast
Welcome to the Learn to Thrive with ADHD Podcast. This is the show for you if you’re an adult with ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms and you need help. Do you feel like your symptoms are holding you back from reaching your full potential? Are you frustrated, unmotivated and overwhelmed?
Many people aren’t aware that ADHD coaching is even an option. Perhaps you are newly diagnosed, or not diagnosed, but you check all the boxes and you’re finding it difficult to cope in certain areas of your life. Host, Mande John and ADHD coach, is here to help. Each week, you’ll get solutions and practical advice to navigate ADHD symptoms and live a productive life.
On the podcast, you’ll hear from coaches and clients who share real-world applications, tools, and resources that you can apply to your own life. We can be creatives, entrepreneurs, or multi-passionate people, and not know how to organize our ideas, or even how to take action on them. With Mande John as your guide in the area of ADHD coaching, she’ll show you how to transform your life when you apply the tools to help you be more focused, less overwhelmed, and be a person that commits and stays the course. Are you ready for a life-changing experience? Let’s go!
Learn to Thrive with ADHD Podcast
Ep 91: Executive Function Skills Series #8 Planning & Prioritization
In this game-changing episode of our executive function series, I share how to master planning and prioritization—and why the beautiful, color-coded plans you spend hours creating but never follow aren't serving your ADHD brain.
📌 Key Topics:
- My Anime Expo breakthrough: going from post-trip chaos to calm confidence
- Why the planning itself became my dopamine hit (and how to break that cycle)
- The difference between executive function that's broken vs. inconsistent
- How to zoom out and ask "what really matters this week?" when everything feels urgent
- Building unshakeable self-trust through consistent small wins
- Time awareness challenges and the game-changing power of tracking task times
🗣️ Featured Quote: "I used to make these beautiful color-coded plans that took hours to build, and then I wouldn't follow them. The planning itself was the dopamine hit. I wasn't being lazy—it was just executive function dysregulation."
💡 Strategy Breakdown:
- Focus on just ONE thing per day (not always the "most important"—just one you'd be proud to complete)
- Use "Main Intentions" vs. to-dos with built-in flexibility for unexpected things
- Master the "Would be nice if" section with intentional language that prevents overwhelm
- Break tasks down so small it's easier to do them than deal with how you'll feel if you don't
- Apply the "when-where-what" commitment strategy (91% success rate vs. 35% for good intentions alone)
🎯 Coming Up Next: This concludes our Executive Function Series—but it's just the beginning! Summer courses on Overcoming Overwhelm, Getting Things Done, and more are coming.
🔑 Key Takeaway: Your executive function skills aren't broken—they're just inconsistent. With the right system that works WITH your brain instead of against it, you can build planning and prioritization like a muscle. It takes practice, not perfection.
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