Are you an ADHD Coach or Virtual Assistant ?
Training and certification available for ADHD coaches to learn my organisational system InToCalmÂź and to fill in that common gap in ADHD coaching around actually providing your client with a solid and reliable way to overcome the key issues of TIME MANAGEMENT, INBOX MADNESS and a far better solution to replace TO DO LISTS.
Background to InToCalmÂź
In 2021, I shifted my focus to coaching other ADHD entrepreneurs. It was then that I realised the time management and communication methods I had developed years before my ADHD diagnosis were highly effective and could significantly benefit others.
Reflecting on my past, I recognised the determination I had at 30 to overcome my struggles with using paper or digital calendars without experiencing constant "micro failures." Back then, I feared this inability would lead to serious setbacks in my business endeavours.
Before turning 30, I lived and worked in Morocco, where I built several successful businesses. These ventures not only generated substantial income but also allowed me to exit with significant financial gains. However, after selling my businesses, I moved to the UK and found myself without the support of my 50-strong team. This loss of essential "scaffolding," a term ADHD coaches often use, had a profound impact on me.
To my horror, I began struggling with punctuality, missed opportunities, and a general sense of chaos. The transition from a highly successful entrepreneur to someone unreliable was baffling and distressing. Determined to change, I embarked on a mission to make my digital calendar work for me. I also grappled with managing eight different email accounts, unsure whether I had read, replied to, or needed to follow up on messages. Endless to-do lists only amplified my feelings of failure, with shortcomings piling up across various lists scattered throughout my home and life.
At that time, I was unaware of my ADHD and would wait another 14 years before getting a diagnosis understanding it. Instead, I tackled my challenges with problem-solving skills honed during my 20s while building thriving businesses. My confidence in my ability to solve problems fueled a level of determination that was essential for my perseverance.
After around 36 months of trial and error, my determination paid off. I regained my status as a reliable, productive, and successful entrepreneur, this time without relying on a large team for support. This transformation not only restored my self-esteem but also gave me the confidence to operate reliably and independently (without my scaffolding team).
Following my diagnosis, receiving ADHD coaching and then through coaching many ADHD entrepreneurs myself, I realised that we arenât all as lucky as I was to have experienced great success early on in life and therefore not all ADHDâers are equipped with that all important knowledge and self esteem to be able to focus on this problem in the way I had. My realisation was sparked by a drastic change in my environmentâfrom Morocco, where my large team provided the necessary support and structure, to the UK, where I was a solo entrepreneur without that all important external scaffolding.
It was thanks to the sudden change in my effectiveness at that changing point of losing my team which strongly highlighted the problem to me, enabling me to see that i hadnât changed but something else hadand I wasnât prepared to continue like this which fuelled my persistence and determination to find a way to revert to being a highly effective and productive person again.
In my discussions with other ADHD coaches
Over the years, many of the ADHD coaches I spoke to were ADHDâers themselves (just like me), I realised when I asked them the question âhow do you help your ADHD clients to manage their time, inboxes and to do lists and to help them to avoid what I call âmicro failuresâ such as forgetting meetings or commitments or double booking themselves and how they manage the inbox monster and endless, stressful to do lists?â through their super candid responses which were often that they had still not completely managed to get that sorted in their own ADHD lives. This if course is very understandable as there is so much information out there online which is contradictory and is often based around premises which I knew to be incorrect when it comes to the ADHD mind from all of my two and a half years of trial and error whilst trying to crack the problem for myself.
The 6 key discoveries I made were that:
Paper is our enemy.
Smart organisational apps promising all sorts of incredible functionality are not helpful to the easily distractible ADHD mind which rarely has the frustration tolerance required to persevere through the learning curve of such wonder-apps.
We need to have all our time management taking place in a single place or screen. Not using one calendar for work and another for the rest of our lives because we only have 24 hours in any one day and we need to see how that 24 hour period is filling up regardless of which areas of our life we are thinking about because they are all just slots on our timeline and they need to fit together.
Same for multiple inboxes, we have to see all messages in one single place or else we will neglect certain inboxes and this leads to âmicro failuresâ which are what we are striving to banish from our lives.
To do lists feel satisfying to write but we tend not to take them to through the necessary next steps of prioritising them and entering them onto our timeline.
There needs to be a connection between our messages and our timeline (on the calendar) and our to do lists.
Today, my journey has equipped me with the tools and insights to help other ADHD entrepreneurs navigate their challenges and achieve success independently BUT I can only help a certain number of them and in order to grow exponentially the number of successful ADHD'ers, I have created a video training to teach any coach who isnât getting excellent results helping their own clients to stop having 'micro failures' through poor and unreliable time management and who are still losing the battle with the Inbox 'monster' as well as the endless to do lists which never get done.
If you are already getting the results you want with your ADHD clients that's wonderful.
If you would like to become a licenced & certified InToCalmÂź trainer / coach then please click below for full details of how you can learn everything you need to know today. You will learn the method and will be provided with everything you need to make passing on the method to your ADHD clients super easy.