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Home of serialized book, 'Focused, Balanced Days with ADHD,' by Skye Waterson (MA, PG Cert). If you're a professional who's been diagnosed late with ADHD, feels like you're drowning, and wants practical, research-based solutions... this is for you.

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  1. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    Big Fat Binder: An ADHD woman's journey through chaos and back (opens the original)

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    Almost everyone I’ve worked with has a horror story. Some tale of when they tried to regain control of their business and it backfired. For this client, a chic New Yorker working in food, that story came in the form of a file filled with stacked Google Docs…“They’ll definitely work”, urged the woman she’d paid to help.My soon-to-be client looked at the woman and realized with growing horror that she’d just spent thousands on something whose sole use would be to collect digital dust.Sure enough,

  2. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    Did I say coming tomorrow... (opens the original)

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    For those of you who have been reading my articles about working memory and the strategies and systems we put in place to support them this week, first of all, thank you so much! I really appreciate it. I’ve loved to see how many people have been engaging with my content and it’s making me excited to be back on Substack.I mentioned that I would be sharing a free system that you can use to help you focus and reduce overwhelm in your business tomorrow but… it’s going to be next week. We’re working

  3. Issue · Sep 9, 2026

    Embracing the Torrent: An ADHD Academic’s Answer To Task Overwhelm (opens the original)

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    So you read yesterday’s article, and it resonated. You are an overwhelmed architect. So what can we do about it?Well, let me tell you what I don’t recommend.I don’t recommend we do a thorough clean of your systems and get them all back to sorted and sparkling before we start.It might work on Marie Kondo and other home organization shows, but unless you have a team of experts ready to jump on everything, you’re more likely to end up exhausted with a pile of stuff in your physica

  4. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    My Stomach Dropped: ADHD and Why We Struggle With Systems (opens the original)

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    You wake up, stretch, and as the first sign of the day drifts into your brain, it brings with it a stomach-churning feeling of dread you can’t quite place yet.“Oh yes, there it is. I have no idea what I’m doing and no time to do it.”Your business, with all its plans, clients, systems, and processes, feels like a half-abandoned house. Sure, there are rooms you still live in, ensuring what needs to be done gets done to keep the lights on. But the rest of the house? It’s a tangle of dark rooms pile

  5. Issue · Aug 5, 2026

    If I Only Had A System For This (opens the original)

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    by Russ Jones(0% of this article was written with the help of AI)Adults with ADHD love a good system. We find ourselves often saying, “I just need a system for …[insert any struggle]” Recently I caught myself in a moment of frustration with my refrigerator saying out loud “I need a system for groceries!” That’s how embedded the idea of a good system is, it was my go-to response for what was actually a much simpler “Hey, you need groceries, so go grocery shopping”. But a system holds the promise

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