How to Get Back to Studies After a Long Gap

How to Get Back to Studies After a Long Gap

People have a list of reasons for taking gap years in college or returning after a long period out of school. Many of the same concerns apply to corporate training. Family responsibilities, medical issues, and avoiding burnout are a few. We also see movie storylines centered around people returning to school, like “Larry Crowne”. Although …

Eight underrated things to remember on the first school day

What are the most underrated tips for the first school day that can help both parents and kids? The tips are very simple, a product of experience. You might know them and yet I wish someone told me these tips years ago, TLDR 1. Communicate realistic expectations 2. Minimize logistics but provide backups 3. Extracurricular …

Autobiographical memory: your personal time machine

Some people remember their lives better than anything else. Very few remember their lives perfectly. How and why we can use autobiographical memory? Is that a blessing or a curse? Can we change our memories? More reading here, here, here, here, here, here. Autobiographical memory My own autobiographical memory is not very good. If the police …

The 5 Best Productivity Apps For Adults With ADHD

Productivity is a laughable concept when ADHD is embedded in every fiber of your daily structure. Our ADHD usually handles productivity like this: “Productivity? You wanna talk productivity? Productivity is managing the post-it notes on our desk for an hour before tossing them in the trash and starting over. Ha!” You see, ADHD does not …

What is limiting my productivity right now?

We want to be more productive and achieve more faster. Yet, most of us do not really know the limiting factors. What is limiting your productivity right now? Is it a lack of knowledge? Imperfect technique? Poorly defined goals? Psychological barriers? Suboptimal equipment? Skills and limitations Things that limit us are numerous and often transparent …