My business coach asked me last week why I do what I do. She wanted me to articulate why I am an ADHD coach. (If you didn’t know, I’m involved in a pretty intense group business coaching program. It’s how I stay accountable, focused and moving forward on my business plans and goals.)
My answer to her question about why I’m an ADHD coach came to me quickly and clearly. After all, this work has been my mission and passion since 1998.
I am an ADHD coach because I want the creativity and power of ADHD adults unleashed into the world.
Sure a marketing guru could probably find a snazzier way to say it.
I’m not a marketer. I’m an ADHD Coach.
I spend my days helping frustrated and fed-up adults outsmart their ADHD so they can reach their goals and live more effortless and successful lives.
I help them make time management and organizing ADHD-friendly. I help them understand their personal flavor of ADHD and how to work with it instead of against it in all areas of their lives.
Do I give a rip about people being organized? Do I really care about ADHD-friendly task lists and up-to-date calendars?
No, I don’t. If the clutter and chaos doesn’t bother someone why should it bother me?
I do care deeply, and why I am an ADHD coach, is when the life of someone with ADHD is harder than they want it to be. When they struggle so much to manage the stuff of life and work that their gifts and creativity can’t shine.
Maybe it’s because I have ADHD myself and part of me will always have a soft spot for that sensitive young girl who thought she was lazy and stupid because she couldn’t focus in class, organize her school work or manage her time enough to get her homework done.
Maybe it’s because I’ll always have a soft spot for that lively, kick-ass young woman who had realized she was darn smart but wondered why the basic tasks of life seemed so much harder for her than they were for everyone else.
Maybe it’s because I know that if I hadn’t learned how to be organized and manage my ADHD brain my life would have unfolded much differently, and I’d be in a much darker place.
There’s my long answer to that short question. That is why I am an ADHD coach. Thanks for listening.
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