Hi. I’m Jan Bavea, an ADHD coach, providing ADD / ADHD help for adults, professionals, academics, and parents. Here, you will find tips to maintain focus when it’s needed, reduce efforts in unproductive areas, and manage all that energy and creativity. From that, you will find more peace and joy in your life. Common Struggles…
For those with ADD/ADHD this is an ongoing challenge that can make or break the day – especially when it comes to timeliness. We try to avoid those disapproving stares, but it’s hard to avoid the comments and open hostility. We know that other people think we don’t appreciate the value of their time. Apart…
I always love hanging up a new calendar, and starting a new diary. It’s so full of possibilities, there are all those blank pages just waiting to be filled. If, like me, you do spend time thinking about life, it’s likely you’ll want to improve something these seven areas: Your job or career Your health…
ADHD COACH – Jan Bavea Usually when I write a blog post I am addressing some of the challenges my clients face, things like work life balance, finding the time to look after yourself, meeting deadlines, getting that promotion, moving ahead in your career, managing family concerns, your wellbeing, and so on. However, sometimes we…
It’s actually NOT the case that more men have ADHD than women. Rather it’s that more men are diagnosed than women as per Sari Solden, who wrote Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace your differences and transform your life. So the question becomes, Why do more men get diagnosed with ADHD than women? In short,…
Here’s the problem scenario that wreaks havoc on your productivity … You are in the middle of an important project. In fact it is so important that you have totally stalled. with self-doubts and asking yourself what insanity got you into this mess. You are feeling hopelessly stuck, the ideas or actions won’t flow, and…
It’s the end of the financial year (EOFY) and you’re exhausted. We’ve been bombarded with marketing designed to relieve us of our money in the disguise of “Have I got a deal for you”. There have been all those work deadlines and you’ve been working late to make sure you get over the line in…
Photo by Issam Hammoudi at Unsplash Let me start with a story … I’ve got a client with ADHD and she can be really overwhelming. She gets wildly enthusiastic about all her new ideas, she rings all her friends to tell them about them, and as she adds to them she calls again to tell…
Photo by Tim Gouw at Unsplash Who are you going to tell? There are some of us who tell the world every thought that comes to mind, like Zoe, my client who spills the beans on everything. I wrote about her in the article, How to Deal with Idea Overload. There are others who prefer to…
Photo by Bryan Minear at Unsplash How’s your year going? Did you start out with a nice fresh clean sheet and decide that things you struggled with last year were going to be all under your control this year? I certainly did. And then… I had an unexpected illness that resulted in surgery. There always…
“Some days are diamonds, some days are stone.” ~ John Denver You seem to have been going along ok, life and work have been following their normal pattern, when suddenly something hits you out of left field that shakes your cool. It seems like a good time for a total meltdown, but you’re an…