Why Using Anxiety To Manage Your ADHD Isn't A Good Idea

Running your business on anxiety feels like productivity. It isn't. It's a system built on urgency, and it burns out fast.

Research suggests that goal-focused interventions can reduce anxiety in adults with ADHD. What they don't appear to do is meaningfully improve executive functioning. Skye and Will break down a Norwegian randomized controlled trial on goal management training, what it found, and why that gap between feeling less anxious and actually getting more done matters for how you run your work.

What We Cover

• Why using anxiety as a task manager is a direct path to burnout
• What the research found about goal management training and anxiety reduction
• Why the study's results showed little change in executive functioning despite structured intervention
• The difference between reducing mental load and building systems that improve output
• What's missing from most ADHD support frameworks when it comes to actual mechanics

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Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.

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