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Jesse J. Anderson

Puyallup

Writer at Extra Focus

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | extrafocus.com | Jesse J. Anderson |Chris Guillebeau

    Hey friends,I’m really excited to have as an Extra Focus guest writer this week!Chris is a New York Times bestselling author and his latest title, Time Anxiety, is directly relevant for people with ADHD. He also created the NeuroDiversion conference that launched this year (you can join the waiting list to find out when tickets become available) and writes the newsletter .

  • 2 weeks ago | extrafocus.com | Jesse J. Anderson

    Hey friends,Maybe you’re like me, and when things are going well you start to feel this sense of dread… like you know something is just around the corner, waiting to mess everything up. The cliche of “waiting for the other shoe to drop” where I’m not just worried about it happening, but actually expecting it to happen.

  • 3 weeks ago | extrafocus.com | Jesse J. Anderson

    Hey friends,One of the biggest ADHD challenges is something I call the activation barrier. When you know exactly what you want to do in the moment, but there’s this invisible wall that you can’t seem to break through and actually start doing the thing.

  • 1 month ago | extrafocus.com | Jesse J. Anderson

    Hey friends,For much of my life, I felt broken. Something was wrong, everyone else could see it. And I spent decades trying to figure out how to fix it. Blaming myself every time I “screwed up” again. Whether it was me being late to an appointment (or job interview), forgetting some important detail, or just not being to motivate myself to finish that really important project. Worse, it seemed like everywhere were solutions that claimed to be just what I was looking for.

  • 1 month ago | extrafocus.com | Jesse J. Anderson |Skye Waterson

    I’m super excited to welcome back Skye Waterson for this week’s guest column. Skye is the founder of Unconventional Organisation and writes the newsletter. She is also an ADHD coach, researcher, and hosts The ADHD Skills Lab Podcast. This guest post about ADHD and entrepreneurship is quite timely as I’ve been exploring this even more in recent weeks. I’ve often heard that entrepreneurship and ADHD go together well, but I love how this dives into the research behind how and why that is true.