Your Brain Isn't Broken – You, Me and ADHD

Tag: productivity

  • Mental Overload: Navigating 47 Open Tabs

    Mental Overload: Navigating 47 Open Tabs

    If your brain feels like it has 47 tabs open…

    And three of them are playing music…
    And one of them has frozen…
    And one of them is something important…
    But you can’t quite remember which…

    Welcome.

    This is what mental overload actually feels like.

    And yet, from the outside, it often looks like:

    “Why are you so distracted?”
    “Why can’t you focus?”
    “Why don’t you just finish one thing?”

    What people don’t see is the internal noise.

    The constant switching.
    The pulling in different directions.
    The half-finished thoughts stacked on top of each other.
    The background hum of “I should be doing something else.”

    It’s exhausting.

    Not because you’re not trying—but because your brain is processing more, faster, and less selectively than most people realise.

    Here’s the part that changes everything:

    This isn’t a focus problem.

    It’s a filtering problem.

    Your brain isn’t bad at paying attention—it’s bad at deciding what not to pay attention to.

    Everything comes in at full volume.

    Every idea. Every distraction. Every possibility.

    Which is why a simple task can feel overwhelming—not because it’s hard, but because it’s competing with 46 other things at the same time.

    And when you don’t understand that, you default to self-blame.

    But once you do?

    You stop trying to “force focus”…
    …and start reducing noise.

    You simplify.
    You structure differently.
    You create environments that support attention instead of fighting it.

    That’s the shift.

    And that’s what this book is built around.

    👉 www.yourbrainisntbroken.co.uk

    If this sounds like your brain…

    Or someone you know constantly says “I just can’t concentrate”…

    Send this to them.

    Because they’re not broken.

    They’re overloaded.

  • Understanding Your ADHD Brain: You’re Not Lazy

    Let’s get something straight, because this one matters more than most people realise:

    You’re not lazy.

    Not even slightly.

    But somewhere along the way, someone said it. Maybe a teacher. Maybe a parent. Maybe a boss. Maybe even you, quietly, to yourself.

    “Why can’t I just get on with it?”
    “Why do I keep putting things off?”
    “Why does everything feel harder than it should?”

    And when you don’t have the right explanation… your brain fills in the gap with blame.

    Lazy.
    Unmotivated.
    Inconsistent.
    Not trying hard enough.

    Except none of those are true.

    What’s actually happening is this:

    You’ve been trying to operate your brain using systems that were never designed for it.

    Standard advice—planners, routines, discipline, “just try harder”—works brilliantly for some people. But if you’ve got an ADHD-style brain, those tools can feel like trying to run a Formula 1 engine on bicycle instructions.

    You’re not failing the system.

    The system is failing you.

    And when that mismatch goes unexplained, it becomes personal. You start thinking there’s something wrong with you, instead of recognising there’s something different about how your brain engages, starts, prioritises, and processes.

    Here’s the truth most people never get told:

    Your brain runs on interest, not obligation.
    On stimulation, not structure alone.
    On momentum, not pressure.

    Which means of course you struggle to “just start” boring tasks. Of course you can spend hours deep-diving into something fascinating while ignoring something “important”. Of course your energy comes in waves rather than neat, predictable lines.

    That’s not laziness.

    That’s wiring.

    And once you understand that, everything begins to shift.

    Because you stop trying to fix yourself… and start learning how to work with yourself.

    You stop forcing square-peg solutions into a completely different kind of brain.

    You start building systems that actually make sense for you.

    And that’s exactly what Your Brain Isn’t Broken is about.

    It’s not about trying harder.

    It’s about finally understanding what’s been happening all along—and using that knowledge to make life easier, not harder.

    If this hit a nerve, don’t ignore it.

    👉 Go to www.yourbrainisntbroken.co.uk

    And if you know someone who’s been quietly calling themselves lazy for years…

    Send them this.

    Because this might be the first time it actually makes sense.