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Join Patty as she shares some tips on how to use your comprehensive to-do list to make a daily to-do list. She also has some examples of how she prioritizes tasks with concrete, external, and visual tools. Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!! New episodes are posted every Friday!  Subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@adhdfr...

Do you have a neat, organized task list that includes everything you need to do in the next 4-6 weeks? If not, join Patty as she shares some tips on how to condense all of your upcoming tasks into one comprehensive list. Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!! New episodes are posted every Friday!  Subscribe to the channel here: https://www.yout...

What are your summer intentions? Summer is here. If you are like me, summer has a feeling of abundance. Open, spacious time… more time than I need to do everything I ever wanted to do. Unfortunately, I know from experience that isn’t true. The three months of summer are over in what feels like the blink of an eye.   In today’s episode I share how I approach planning my summer with concrete, visual...

Weekly Planning is literally one of Patty’s favorite things to do. In this episode she shares why. Patty also walks you through her 7 steps process to planning out her week and invites you to plan yours while following along! Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!! New episodes are posted every Friday!  Subscribe to the channel here: https://www...

Patty shares some of her favorite quotes and how she uses them to create energy, motivation and inspiration. What are your favorite quotes? Please post in the comments! Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!! New episodes are posted every Friday!  Subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@adhdfriendly Please subscribe to my YouTube...

Why Chores are so Hard with ADHD (And Tips to do them more easily!) I have ALWAYS hated cleaning. Just the word “Chores” sends me running in the opposite direction. I have read countless articles, books and expert tips to get myself to clean. Some things have worked (laundry and dishes are things I no longer struggle with), but there are still many cleaning tasks that continue to be challenging fo...

It’s the first ever ADHD-Friendly “Subscriber Give-Away” and Patty shares how to enter for a chance to win in her “Celebration” portion of the podcast. Also, does “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once” describe how your thoughts feel to you? Patty shares how to use external, concrete and visual tools to get out of your head in order to do things with more ease!  Thank you for checking out this epis...

The best time to start your Personal Owner’s Manual (POM) is when you were a kid. The second best time is now. To make it easy to begin, Patty outlines 10 questions to answer to get your POM started. She even shares her answers to each one! Please note: this isn’t a perfect episode. ;-)   Patty skipped question #5: Incentives! Oops We brainstormed how to fix this and there wasn’t an easy way to do...

Perfectionism is a huge problem, especially when it comes to ADHD brains! In this episode Patty shares some tips to break out of perfectionism and maybe even begin to embrace the idea of becoming an imperfectionist! Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!! New episodes are posted every Friday!  Subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.c...

Daily Planning Mini-Habit Do you struggle to get things done throughout the day but the idea of starting a daily planning habit overwhelms you? In this episode Patty shares how to start a Daily Planning “Mini-Habit” including specific steps to set you up for success! 0:51 Celebration (Knitting) 2:25 ADHD-Friendly Tip: Make it Work for you 7:53 #18 Mini Habits 8:02 #66 Daily Planning 8:25 Mini-Habi...

Support Your Future Self! “Now” and “Not Now”- that’s the way our brain is wired. Your Future Self pays the price. In this episode Patty shares some strategies to support your future self in an ADHD-friendly way! Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!! New episodes are posted every Friday!  Subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/...

The Hidden Cost of ADHD- AKA: The ADHD Tax Do you pay an ADHD Tax? It isn’t an actual tax- it is the hidden cost of ADHD. It can include fees from missed appointments, late payments and overdrafts as well as costs associated with impulse spending, credit card debt, higher insurance rates due to low credit scores and much more. Patty shares some ADHD-friendly strategies to minimize the impact of th...

Does your space work for you? In this episode Patty shares how she intentionally sets up her space to give her a Home Field Advantage. She leans into structuring her environment in ways that create more ease and flow for her brain… which even resulted in turning her living room into an ISIM Room. Check out the episode to learn more about it! The Pocket Notebooks, Annual Dry Erase Calendar, Semeste...

Does setting or holding boundaries cause you stress? In today’s episode Patty shares what she learned from Melissa Urban’s book, “The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits that will Set You Free.” From Green, Yellow, Red boundaries and examples of language to use for each, Melissa’s work makes setting boundaries easier than ever before! The Book of Boundaries is available in the ADHD-Friendly shop: h...

How do you meet inner and/or outer expectations? Knowing your “tendency” can be a game-changer. In this episode Patty shares a breakdown of the Four Tendencies book by Gretchen Rubin. Interested in learning your tendency? A link to Gretchen’s quick quiz is below: https://gretchenrubin.com/quiz/the-four-tendencies-quiz/ Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty...

Are you a sibling of someone with ADHD or does one or more of your children have ADHD? In this episode Patty shares some research on the impact ADHD can have on siblings as well as some examples from her own family. Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!! New episodes are posted every Friday!  Subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.c...

Whether you are already a Costco member or never shopped there before, in  this episode Patty counts the ways she has found Costco to  be a fun place to shop. Highlights include how product pricing, member benefits and Costco’s return policy combine to make her shopping experience more enjoyable and definitely more ADHD-friendly! Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast...

In this Special 10 Episode, Patty shares how she created a new tool for her Personal Owner’s Manual (POM) after she learned more about how important fun is to a healthy life. A free PDF of Patty’s “Fun Menu” is included if you want to create one for your POM! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UJNpJRWU8xlgrdC27zZNjzQcOwrzxV3s/view?usp=sharing Also, Patty kicked off the episode with a “reward” celebr...

Even if you never heard of body doubling, chances are you have done it before. In this episode Patty shares what body doubling is as well as examples of how she uses it to get things done with more ease.  Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!! New episodes are posted every Friday!  Subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@adhdfri...

As a former teacher, Patty used pocket charts in her classroom every day. What she didn’t know then was that they would become a key tool she uses at home to support herself and her family. Check out this episode to learn how she uses them and explore how you can too! Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!! New episodes are posted every Friday! ...

Having planned at-home birthday parties for all of her 4 kids from the age of 1-10, Patty has a lot of experience with ADHD-friendly birthday parties. In this episode she shares her tips, tools and ADHD-friendly structure she created to make the parties more fun and much less likely to end in meltdowns. From invitations to thank you cards, you are sure to find a helpful tip for your child’s next b...

Daily planning really leans into our Now/Not Now brain wiring. In this episode Patty shares how she bookends her daily planning process and the visual, concrete and external tools she uses to do it. Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast with Patty Blinderman!! New episodes are posted every Friday!  Subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@adhdfriendly...

The idea of planning an entire year is daunting. There is a good chance of feeling overwhelmed just thinking about it. In this episode, Patty shares how she uses external, concrete and visual tools to support herself to plan key milestones for the entire year. She doesn’t plan everything (or even close to it!), but she does use tools to stretch her time horizon to see more of the year at a glance...

In this episode Patty shares how she uses lists structured around the year to set and keep track of her goals in a very ADHD-Friendly way. A few years ago Patty heard about the idea of creating lists around the year we are in (22 in 2022, 23 in 2023, etc.) on the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast and realized she could add this to her structure to make her lists even easier to keep up with.  A P...

Another year is coming to an end. What did you do in 2022 that you want to remember and maybe even bring forward to support your future self in the new year? In this episode Patty shares how she wraps up the year by capturing successes and wins and how she uses what she learned to support her future self with a bit more ease. Thank you for checking out this episode of the ADHD Friendly podcast wit...