We hate structure but we need it to function as it has a close relationship with the concept of control. We need to feel we have control.

I’ve had an interesting conversation about stress and burnout recently. Burnout and tiredness often go together and this can impact cognitive functioning.

We know that those with ADHD tend to have a negative bias when it comes to the concept of success. We can be very poor at recognising, embracing, celebrating and owning our own successes, but we can be very good at recognising and owning our failures.

The creative brain is a fantastic thing. Many of my clients are solutions imagineers in some way, seeing the possibilities, making the impossible possible. I find their company rewarding and stimulating. But the creative brain comes with some challenges of its own including the propensity to overthink.

The love, trust and companionship of my dogs has been a constant in my life for 25 years and whilst I could wax lyrical about my sheep farming days and its simple and rustic charm, I wanted to share some key learnings that I think are very relevant to the ADHD experience.

I’ve been thinking of putting Teddy on the wall as a piece of art in a display case in my new place. Sometimes, we have the idea first without really understanding where the idea has come from or why and it’s taken a while to understand some of the things that Teddy represents for me.

Have you ever seen piglets sleeping? It's the most amusing thing, for piglets sleep in a pile of little bodies, all bundled on top of one another. This has some parallels with the way creative ideas surface in the ADHD brain.

During a recent coaching session, I was helping a client explore her need for a simple filtering system to help prioritise a large number of opportunities. Without this, the ADHD brain is frustrated by basic executive skill challenges such as time management, goal setting and visualisation…

Learning to understand how your own ADHD manifests itself is the key to developing appropriate ways in which to manage the challenges that it can bring. These challenges are often particularly relevant in the workplace. However ADHD workplace challenges can often be substantially reduced by making small but effective changes and embedding them until they become habits.

In October 2017 the BBC broadcast a Horizon programme presented by the comedian Rory Bremner about how he discovered that he has ADHD. At the end of the programme my wife turned to me. “That sounds a lot like you” she said. “I was thinking the same thing” I said.

‘Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder’ is very commonly misunderstood. The first misunderstanding is that the words appear to be descriptive. The second problem are the words themselves. The word deficit implies ‘less than’ and the word disorder implies ‘malfunction’. The ADHD brain isn’t broken, it is wired a little differently and it’s unique.