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The Brain Chronicle | October 2025 Edition (Patreon)

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Hello Brains & Hearts!

Can you believe it’s almost the end of the year already!? Feels like just yesterday it was April or something. 🤣 It’s honestly been a really productive year at How to ADHD and I couldn’t be prouder of this team! I’ve been able to try new video styles, start writing my second book, and FINALLY collab with Cas from Clutterbug after SEVEN YEARS of the community asking.

This is in no small part because of the support you all give my team and I here. We know this year has been tough financially for people, us included, so we want to thank you so much for continuing to support us. One of our biggest values here is sharing content for free. We never want to put the information that ADHD Brains need behind a paywall or become so reliant on sponsors that our focus is on their needs rather than the needs of our community. Your support is the only reason we’re able to keep going like we have been, and it means the world to us. ♥️

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How to Add Urgency to Tasks

Thank you to all our SUPERbrains, Wonderbrains, Brain Boardians, and Brain Advocates for voting for this month’s topic!

Urgency can be a powerful motivator in getting our brains to start and finish things! But how do we do that in a way that isn’t just… leaving tasks to the ABSOLUTE last minute?

Deadline pressure might be effective… but is it healthy? Not if it’s your go-to for everything.

As Dr. Patrick LaCount often cautions, “You can run from a bear. But your body isn’t built to run from a bear every day.”

So what’s a Brain to do?

Well, we asked the community, and we want to share some of our favorite strategies!

Use Social Pressure Positively

Accountability, when used appropriately, is a powerful way to add social pressure positively. (Click here to watch our video on accountability to learn more.)

Think friends, colleagues, virtual body doubles, and pets that count on us.

We might tell our bestie that we’re going to start doing the dishes at noon.

Or ask our boss for more frequent check-ins on a project.

Others (including myself) only clean up when someone’s coming over, so why not invite a friend over?

Invest (Mindfully) in Deadlines

For some brains, a deadline doesn’t add enough urgency, but the promise of a consequence does. (Bonus? This can go hand in hand with accountability, too.)

Much like accountability, this should be done in a way that doesn’t make us feel horrible if we miss the deadline. The idea is to ‘hack’ this feeling to our advantage, without causing a cataclysm of shame, damage, or other such ruin if we still miss the deadline.

A simple example of this is getting a reward for doing the thing, or not getting the reward if we don’t do the thing.

Some in our community buy online courses that only grant access for 30 days, which we thought was an interesting way to motivate oneself! (If this is something you might think to try, be very mindful. The ADHD tax is still very real!)

Re-Evaluate

Urgency can be a powerful motivator, so much so that sometimes we might rely only on urgency.

If we’ve tried a thousand and one strategies to add urgency, and they’ve all fallen flat, it might be time to reevaluate the situation.

Urgency is one way to add planks to motivation bridge. We might think more urgency is all we need, when in reality, we may need to gather planks from other sources — novelty, for example. (Click here to learn more about motivation bridge!)

Click here to read more community ideas and strategies!

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CHADD ADHD Conference | November 11 - November 15

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This one snuck up on us. Apologies for the super late notice about the CHADD conference! That said if you’ll be going, and if you have access to our Discord, there will be a forum where you can discuss what you learn at the con!