An ADHDier course · Getting Things Done
Start the Thing
Homework, procrastination and getting your brain into motion.
What this course is
Not motivation.
Activation.
You are not lazy. You have proof: you have stayed up until 2am finishing something in four hours that you avoided for three weeks. Someone lazy could not have done that.
What is actually happening is narrower and more specific than laziness, and it has a name — activation. Getting a task from your head into your hands is its own skill, separate from caring about it, understanding it or being able to do it.
This course is about that skill: what breaks it, what fixes it, and how to build a version of starting that does not require panic to work.
The course map
Six lessons, in order.
6 lessons · work at your own pace
- 01
Why Starting Is the Hard Part
You can do the work. You have done harder work. The problem is the two minutes before the work begins.
11 min · Listen first
02What's Actually Blocking It
Not starting has reasons. They are just rarely the reason you would give if someone asked.
12 min · Listen first
03Make the First Move Smaller
You do not need a plan for the whole assignment. You need one move so small it does not require a decision.
12 min · Listen first
04Waiting for the Panic
Last-minute panic works. That's the problem — it works, so your brain keeps ordering it.
13 min · Listen first
05Build Your Way In
Stop asking whether you feel like working. Ask what has to be true for working to happen.
12 min · Listen first
06Starting Again
You will fall off. The skill that matters most is not starting — it's restarting without a week of self-hatred first.
11 min · Listen first
What's inside every lesson
Understand.
Try.
Keep.
- Listen first
- A short spoken introduction before you read a word.
- Learn
- What's actually happening, in plain language.
- Try this
- One thing to do today, written as instructions not advice.
- Quick win
- Something under five minutes, for the days you have nothing.
- Notice
- Interactive prompts that shape what the course gives you back.
- Research says
- Honest translation, no invented studies.
- Keep
- Three takeaways and a tool you can save to My ADHDier.
Tools built into the course
Things you make, not things you read.
Lesson 01
The Five-Minute Starter
Name the task, shrink it, and start a timer you are allowed to stop.
Interactive
Lesson 02
What's Actually Blocking This?
Six honest reasons an assignment hasn't started — and what each one needs.
Interactive
Lesson 03
Make It Smaller
Cut homework down until the first move takes no decision at all.
Interactive + printable
Lesson 05
Your Activation Menu
Your own list of the conditions that reliably get you moving.
Interactive + printable
Lesson 06
The Start Kit
Everything from this course on one page you can keep.
Interactive + printable
One course, one price, yours to keep
$49 USD.
No subscription.
Lifetime access, every tool, and everything you make saved into My ADHDier.
Where this comes from
Barkley, Executive Functions
Describes ADHD in terms of self-regulation and the delay between intention and action, rather than knowledge or effort.
Faraone et al., 2021 — International Consensus Statement
Summarises the evidence for ADHD as a neurodevelopmental condition affecting self-regulation through adolescence and beyond.
NICE guideline NG87
Recommends environmental and educational supports alongside any treatment, not effort-based advice alone.
ADHDier courses are educational. They are not a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or a replacement for individual clinical advice.