Millions of adults are diagnosed with ADHD—but few find solutions needed to thrive…
An ADD or ADHD diagnosis—simply a label for the underlying cause of behaviours—doesn’t mean surrendering to the challenges. In fact, understanding how the ADHD brain works will change your perspective and help you become the best version of yourself.
ADHD ADDults: The Ultimate Success Manual serves as a guide—helping you navigate this daunting, uncharted territory in your life. Author Jim Livingstone—diagnosed with Adult ADHD at age 45—gives a first-hand account of his journey and shares everything he wished someone had explained to him when feeling discouraged and overwhelmed.
Jim hopes to erase the stigma around ADD and ADHD, and help others learn to manage and succeed. In this book, he explains ways to set goals, how to get a support system in place, and the seven key elements for action. He includes all the tips and tools needed to turn ADHD traits into positive strengths.
Millions of adults are diagnosed with ADHD—but few find solutions needed to thrive…
An ADD or ADHD diagnosis—simply a label for the underlying cause of behaviours—doesn’t mean surrendering to the challenges. In fact, understanding how the ADHD brain works will change your perspective and help you become the best version of yourself.
ADHD ADDults: The Ultimate Success Manual serves as a guide—helping you navigate this daunting, uncharted territory in your life. Author Jim Livingstone—diagnosed with Adult ADHD at age 45—gives a first-hand account of his journey and shares everything he wished someone had explained to him when feeling discouraged and overwhelmed.
Jim hopes to erase the stigma around ADD and ADHD, and help others learn to manage and succeed. In this book, he explains ways to set goals, how to get a support system in place, and the seven key elements for action. He includes all the tips and tools needed to turn ADHD traits into positive strengths.
Different is not a disorder.
Your unique ADD/ADHD individuality means you learn and use information in a different way. You are built the same but wired differently. Traditional neurotypical methods won’t work. You need a unique path and process. ADHD doesn’t discriminate and affects millions of people of all levels of intelligence and from all walks of life. Welcome aboard the ADHD Express.
First, learn how to manage, then master, your ADHD mind and go from just surviving to thriving. Not despite your ADHD but because of it.
The Internet has provided unlimited resources, with an explosion of information and misinformation. Your mental evolution can’t keep pace with the knowledge overload.
While the marketing and promotion of personal development have exploded with technology, the basics remain the same. I believe the hype has overtaken the content.
Your ADHD brain is trying to navigate through a self-development minefield designed by and for neurotypical minds.
Almost all resources on self-improvement were not written for neurodivergent ADHD minds. Which only leads to confusion, feeling overwhelmed, and paralysis.
My goal is to provide you with ADHD-friendly self-development in a simplified, structured format.
With this in mind, I was careful to get straight to the point when writing. Exercises in this book are intentionally made short to eliminate your excuse of ‘not having enough time’ and to stop you from getting bored or distracted.
While science backs up everything I’ve written, this book is not an academic or medical research paper; it’s a users’ guide, a concise summary.
I was diagnosed with ADD in my forties, about thirty years ago, and have been on and off medication (dexamfetamine) ever since.
While learning, accepting and studying ADHD, I have tried and tested many strategies with great successes and catastrophic failures.
I want to help other ADHDers cut through the bullsh*t and avoid the frustration and pain I went through. These are not theories; they are time-proven structures and strategies that work in the ADHD world.
‘I cannot teach you anything; I can only encourage you to think …’
Socrates
You need a guide, not a ‘guru’. No expert is smarter or better than you; they have learned to become experts. Their desire to grow and time in the game is what makes them the experts.
You must become an expert on yourself. To unlock your unique abilities and embrace your ADHD traits, you need to understand how your ADHD mind works.
You can’t outsource your own self-development.
Personal improvement is in your DNA, and you are capable of leading an exciting, fulfilling and extraordinary life.
There’s nothing wrong with where you are right now. You are wired to seek constant improvement, to make your life better. Better has no final destination, and better does not mean perfect.
There are no secrets. Every book written on self-development (including this one) can be traced back to documents and books written hundreds or thousands of years ago and updated in various forms.
There are no magic keys or steps to transform your mind and life overnight. But if you are prepared to do the work, there are proven techniques and effective pathways.
The right books, videos and knowledge can change your life, but only if you study them with the clear intention to learn and take immediate action to implement what you have learned.
Each of the following chapters has been structured in a particular format and sequence that builds the foundations for you to experience a full life, your best life using your ADHD strengths.
Only you have the power to act on your life and affect the outcome. Find your place in this amazing world by being different and using your ADHD to your advantage.
But, first, you need a basic understanding of how your ADHD mind works, so let’s get started.
To your health, wealth and happiness!
‘Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.’
Henry David Thoreau
ADHD ADDults is an uplifting and motivating self-help book that I recommend, not only to people with ADHD, but anyone that needs some help becoming their best self. I have tried some of the first activities with my children – exploring our values and purpose and putting these in a PowerPoint to remind us daily about what we are working towards (the kids love making PowerPoint presentations, so it’s also fun!) – and I plan to slowly undertake the other activities in this book.
I picked this book because my son is diagnosed with ADHD. I see how he struggles daily, even when medicated, to stay positive because people don’t understand how his brain works. I have read a few ADHD books, and most of them are research based – which is great when you want to understand what ADHD is and how it affects people. What they don’t do is offer practical, step-by-step advice on how to accept your ADHD and thrive with it, which is, on all accounts, the most difficult task for someone with ADHD.
What I see a lot with my son and what really struck a chord was when I read the following: “I have a mental disorder, a neurological imbalance in my brain, and therefore I am doomed to fail.” And how this book aims to change it to: “I have some very special talents, and therefore I am sure to succeed."
Jim Livingstone’s book does exactly this. ADHD ADDults explains what people with ADHD struggle with and every chapter offers valuable insight, positive reinforcement, down-to-earth examples, and practical actions to undertake to improve oneself. Every chapter is short and sweet, straight to the point, and has a summary at the end with room for notes. You can tackle one chapter at a time. Jim Livingstone takes the reader on a journey. You will explore who you are now and who you want to become. He guides you through every step, from pinpointing your goals and beliefs to changing these to achieve success.
So if you want to stay focused on staying positive, and not letting those pesky negative emotions get the best of you – have a read.