7 Ways You Can Lean Into Your ADHD In 2025

You know those days where you find yourself wishing so desperately that you didn’t have ADHD? Pretending that it’s not a huge presence in your life, and that you can just make it *poof* disappear out of thin air, into the abyss of this world created and designed for neurodivergent folks that will never understand you? 😅

Yeah. . . I have those days too. Not gonna lie to you, just because I’m an ADHD coach and creator doesn’t mean I don’t deal with my own self-doubt, frustration, and moments of insecurity—in fact, I have plenty of them and would be more than happy to share them with you if you’re lacking! 

For real though, I want you to know that I fully, COMPLETELY understand the desire to just push away your ADHD and pretend it’s not a part of you. 2025 is gonna be the year we change that, though, and move from trying to figure out how to not be ADHD to embracing our ADHD. You in?!

7 Ways to Embrace Your ADHD in 2025

“Okayyyy Braelyn, I’m down to try this out—but can you give me some practical, tangible ways to get started?!” 

Of courseee I can, that’s what I do best ;) Here are 7 ways you can lean into your ADHD in 2025, from your personal hobbies to your work life!

1. Encourage new hobbies

So often as ADHDers, we’re shamed for the revolving door of hobbies we go through. You know the one—where you suddenly become overwhelmingly interested in a brand new hobby, and you immediately buy all the supplies/invest all the energy you need to do it, only to tire of it maybe a few weeks or months later? Can we stop shaming ourselves for that and lean into them instead?!

In a world that’s SO full of sad news stories and hard, stressful things, isn’t it amazing to be able to so easily fall in love with a new hobby? To find a new passion, no matter how short-lived it may be? I say we start embracing our love for hobbies instead of making up some weird reason as to why we have to stop the cycle (unless it’s impeding on your health, time, money, energy, etc. in a negative way, of course).

Try making a list of things you already do, or hobbies you already have the supplies for, and cross them off once you do them once! It will help with remembering materials you have when you want to do something without buying new items. Bonus points: see just how many you can complete in the entire year!

2. Figure out your ideal flow

It’s 2025, are we over the whole wake-up-at-5-am-to-work-out-and-follow-a-7-step-skincare-routine-before-working-from-9-to-5 thing yet? Instead of listening to what all the bros have to say on social media about your “optimal work time,” figure out what time you work best. Who cares if it’s 9pm instead of 8am, like the traditional workforce demands? Who cares if you’re working at the “right” hours—what even is that?

Try following your natural rhythm and see what happens. Even if it is odd hours! Even if it changes every day! Work with that schedule for a week to see what happens, and pay attention where your energy enables you to best get into a focused flow—not to what time the clock says it is. You may be surprised at how freeing it feels!

3. Aim for “good enough”

One of the biggest ways you can allow yourself to lean into your ADHD is to quit striving for perfection, and instead adopt a “good enough” mindset. Whether it be for your home, work, personal life, or probably all of the above, you are totally allowed to aim for small progress and little successes instead of forcing yourself to take MASSIVE steps every day. Try bringing the bar down a little bit (or a lot a bit) and see what it’s like to move forward with only the tasks that need to be done, and complete the day confident that what you did was good enough. Let’s go from an A+ expectation to maybe a B+ or even a C+, yeah?

4. Build adaptable routines + systems

We’ve gotta stop forcing rigid schedules on ourselves as ADHD folk! The biggest way you can change your life to work alongside your ADHD instead of against it is to build adaptable routines that allow you to change based on your energy levels. 

Picture this: you go into every day with a “low-energy” and a “high-energy” version of your daily to-do list, habit list, etc. This way, you can figure out what feels most realistic + achievable for that specific day, and be productive without feeling overwhelmed by a giant list that you know you won’t be able to complete.

The same way it’s important to incorporate adaptable routines into your life, it’s so important to have adaptable systems working for you behind the scenes! Instead of pushing yourself to work with an app, a website, or a planner that simply doesn’t fit your needs or make sense to your brain, invest in a system that will allow you to do what works for you—cue my Notion templates for ADHDers 👀 

Rather than force you into a box, these templates give you the chance to freely plan, manage, and organize your life with flexibility, adaptability, and ease. I’ve got a few different ones depending on who you are + what you’re looking for support with! ⤵️

For Individuals: The ADHD Daily Dashboard 2.0

For Business Owners: The Calm & Clear System for ADHD Entrepreneurs

For Students: The ADHD Student Life Planner

5. Don’t force something that doesn’t work

Do you have a random pile in the kitchen that never seems to go away? Instead of trying over and over to move it, get a container for it. If it so badly wants to live there, give it a home. Similarly, if you always have laundry in the living room, put a hamper there. There is no "right" way to organize a home, and if you are repeatedly doing something, instead of trying to change yourself, change the thing. give it a home, make it legitimate.

After all, Albert Einstein once said “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” So if he said it, then you must be REALLY smart to allow yourself to change the things that don’t work in your life. . . right? ;)

6. Incorporate novelty into your routine

Variety + novelty are going to be your BFFs as a person with ADHD. Instead of feeling guilty about needing variety in your life, build novelty into your routine on purpose! Here are a few easy ways you can do this:

• Change your work environment (e.g. move from your desk to your patio, or from your office to a coffee shop)

• Use different themes for your planner each month

• Schedule “try something new” days to keep life interesting without losing structure

• Gamify where you can (turn tasks into a Bingo card, create a 30-day challenge, create a habit tracker with a reward system)

• Update your Notion color scheme/images/GIFs on a regular basis

7. Swap “To-Do’s” for “Ta-Da’s”

This one might sound so cheesy but it’s SO fun and simple! Instead of focusing only on what you haven’t done yet in your day/week/month/year, keep a running “Ta-Da!” list of wins, no matter how small. 

Got your oil changed after procrastinating for months? Yay! Cleaned up your Notion dashboard? Heck yeah! Booked a new client? Killin’ it!

Seeing what you’ve already achieved can really help combat those annoying feelings of not doing enough that just looove to sneak in, and will do an amazing job of keeping you motivated.

BONUS: Replace unhealthy distractions with better ones

As an ADHDer, I’ll be the first to tell you that it’s probably going to be near impossible to get rid of distractions forever. They’re just a fact of life for everyone in this day and age full of devices that are meant to distract you from what you’re working on—let alone for us ADHD folks who experience it on a whole other level! That’s why my biggest tip for distractions isn’t to get rid of them: it’s to replace them with better ones.

Think about what you usually get distracted with on a regular basis. Probably something like. . .

• Your phone

• That other Chrome tab you have open on your computer

• Your phone!

• Your watch

• Your phone!!

• Your phone!!!

• Your phone!!!!

. . . you get the picture. It’s probably your phone that distracts you 99% of the time, right? When I tell you I get it, I GET IT. The muscle memory is roughhh and it’s so hard to resist the temptation to just check your notifications one more time reallyyyy quick. 

Did you know that, according to this study, it takes a whopping 23 minutes to get back to your task once you’ve been interrupted (or interrupted yourself, lol)? 🤯

Besides creating distance and friction between you and your phone to help you avoid interruptions like this, I recommend trying to find something else to turn to when you feel that need to grab it. What can you do with your hands instead of reaching for your screen? What can you do instead that won’t disrupt your train of thought quite as much, but that will still give you that little boost + focus break you might be craving?

Here are a few you could try:

• Playing a quick game (Have you seen Qless? It’s blown up on TikTok and I see such great things about it. It’s a simple word game that would be great to play when you need a brief break from what you’re doing, and it’ll keep your brain working! If you know how to solve a Rubik’s Cube or anything of that nature, keep one on your desk to solve when your fingers need something to do.)

• Writing in a journal (Direct your thoughts/feelings/procrastination toward putting words on a page instead of typing words on a screen!)

• Get up and do a quick stretch (Wiggle your toes, fingers, stretch your legs, look out the window, get some fresh air)

There you have it, friends: my top 7 tips for leaning into your ADHD in 2025! I’d love to hear if you implement any of these into your life/routine and how they impact you—pleaseee shoot me a message on TikTok or Instagram and tell me all about it!

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