The ADHDish Files:

Systems, Stories, and Strategies

Practical advice, research, and clinical vignettes relating to ADHD and Executive Function.

Behind The Stories

This space is dedicated to exploring ADHD from the inside out by an ADHD & Executive Function expert. Expect honest reflections, actionable strategies, and clinical insights designed to help you build systems that actually work for your brain.

Meet the Author: Jon Zeitlin

ADHD & Executive Function expert. Founder of two ADHD practices incl. Hallowell Todaro ADHD Ctr (CA) & ResilienceADHD.com. PAAC-certified coach working with teens & adults. Speaker, writer, and trainer on ADHD topics.

Trying to stop procrastinating? Start with this simple trick.

Trying to stop procrastinating with ADHD? Start by catching yourself in the act. ADHD coach Jon Zeitlin shares a simple exercise to build awareness.

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Further Insights

Trying to stop procrastinating? Start with this simple trick.

Trying to stop procrastinating with ADHD? Start by catching yourself in the act. ADHD coach Jon Zeitlin shares a simple exercise to build awareness.

Is AI the best career coach to prepare you for an interview?

AI can be a surprisingly effective interview practice partner. Here’s how to use spoken practice, specific feedback, and repeated rounds to prepare.

Flipping AI to Beat Uncertainty Procrastination

Not sure how to start an assignment? How students with ADHD can use AI to clarify confusing tasks and get started, without AI doing the thinking.

Slaying Your Digital Distractions

App blockers, screen time limits and notification tricks for ADHD, ordered from lightest to strongest and tested by an ADHD coach.

AI Notetakers for ADHDers

We tested Zoom, Granola, Wispr Flow, Pocket and Fieldy through an ADHD lens: which AI notetaker people with ADHD will actually keep using.

Physical workarounds for ADHD

To-do spikes, print planners, pocket notebooks and index cards: low-tech ADHD workarounds that keep tasks visible, and how to pick one that fits you.

How AI can reduce your email anxiety

Thousands of unread emails? How an ADHD coach uses AI to find the few messages you actually need to answer, and turn it into a weekly habit.

Struggling with procrastination?

Why ADHD procrastination is about emotions, not laziness, and a simple way to get unstuck: name the feeling, then pick a getting-started strategy.

If You Have a Colleague with ADHD

Working with a colleague or boss who seems to have ADHD? Five practical steps: awareness, the right conversation, structure and clear boundaries.

Motivation and Boredom In People with ADHD

Motivation isn't something you either have or don't. Why starting is so hard with ADHD, and nine coaching techniques to get going.

Why Do People with ADHD Interrupt?

Why people with ADHD interrupt (a racing brain, impulsivity, working memory) and practical ways to interrupt less without beating yourself up.

ADHD & How to Make Fewer Detail Errors

Small details, big consequences. Practical ways people with ADHD can make fewer errors at work: checklists, small-batch proofreading, AI and slowing down.