Start the New Year with Positive Changes to Your ADHD Health

Start the New Year with Positive Changes to Your ADHD Health: Marcia Hoeck Jacqueline Sinfield healthy ADHD habits change habits ADHD self care ADHD health ADHD ADD The start of a New Year usually brings an enthusiasm to look at yourself, your life, and your business. You can reflect back and see what is working, what isn’t, and make some positive changes. While there’s a lot of research to show that New Year’s resolutions don’t work, there’s also plenty of evidence that creating habits and setting goals DO work.

Make an easy change

Instead of making New Year’s resolutions this year, why not make some positive changes using goals and habits in your life? If you aren’t sure what area to address, I suggest starting [Read more...]

How Shame Affects Your Business Success

How Shame Affects Your Business Success: Welcome to our first newsletter after our August break!

Back to school has come and gone and its officially autumn now. Summer seems a distant memory already!! Thank goodness for photos.

Here’s one of Marcia and me during time we spent together at Marcia’s cottage last month. I’m wearing jeans to protect my legs from more insect bites — apparently I am very tasty.

While we were together, we planned lots of exciting things for Working with ADHD, the first one being a survey. Have you taken it? If not, then we would love it so much if you could. It only takes a few minutes:

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Enjoy today’s article . . . it’s all about feeling shame, and how not to let it get the best of you.

Wishing you a wonderful week!

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How Shame Affects Your Business Success

Shame is one of those topics people hate to talk about. Unfortunately, shame and ADHD often go hand in hand.

Many ADDers feel ashamed of themselves and their behavior. Both of what they did or didn’t do. They feel they aren’t good enough and don’t match society’s crazy ‘norms’. However, like anything, when you address it head on, it isn’t nearly bad as you thought.

Shame affects all areas of your life

When you feel ashamed of who you are, it affects all areas of your life — the quality of your relationships, your health, and your business.

How does it do that? Well, when you feel shame about yourself, you [Read more...]

Warning: Dehydration is Hazardous to Your ADHD Health

Warning: Dehydration is Hazardous to Your ADHD Health: Marcia Hoeck Jacqueline Sinfield drinking water and ADHD dehydration ADHD ADHD ADD About a year ago Marcia and I interviewed Stephanie Calahan of Calahan Solutions. Stephanie is a productivity and organization expert. I was already impressed with Stephanie’s style and knowledge, however when she mentioned the importance of drinking water for productivity, I thought, wow, she really knows her stuff! :)

As a former nurse, I find it really hard not to link everything back to our bodies. We can’t expect miracles from our body if we don’t give it everything it needs to function at its best.

When you are an entrepreneur with ADHD, it’s extra important to take care of your health. When you do, your body and brain function at their best and this directly relates your productivity and your income. The brain is 85% water, and an adult loses 10 cups of fluid each day, even without exercising. In order, to keep it working at its optimal function, we need to drink lots of water.

When you are dehydrated: [Read more...]