ADHD-aware strategies to build focus, momentum, and calm
from the team behind Productivity Ninja
If traditional productivity advice leaves you feeling frustrated, overwhelmed, or secretly ashamed, this eBook is for you.
Productivity for Busy Brains is a practical, compassionate guide for people whose minds don’t thrive on rigid systems, pressure, or willpower. It’s designed for ADHDers and anyone who identifies with ADHD-style challenges around focus, follow-through, energy, and overwhelm and for managers, colleagues, coaches, HR and learning professionals who want to better understand and support people with ADHD.
Productivity for Busy Brains is a practical, compassionate guide for people whose minds don’t thrive on rigid systems, pressure, or willpower. It’s designed for ADHDers and anyone who identifies with ADHD-style challenges around focus, follow-through, energy, and overwhelm and for managers, colleagues, coaches, HR and learning professionals who want to better understand and support people with ADHD.
THIS IS NOT ANOTHER PRODUCTIVITY RULEBOOK
This book does not ask you to:
- Try harder
- Be more disciplined
- Force yourself into systems that were never built for your brain
- Instead, it helps you understand how your brain actually works and shows you how to build systems that support curiosity, interest, momentum, and self-kindness.
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This eBook will resonate if:
- You have ADHD, suspect you might, or recognize yourself in ADHD-style patterns
- You feel busy all the time but struggle to make consistent progress
- You generate ideas easily but find it hard to follow them through
- You experience bursts of energy followed by dips or burnout
- You manage, coach, teach, or work closely with people with ADHD and want a deeper, more human understanding of how their brains work
- You want practical tools without shame, pressure, or perfectionism
- You do not need an ADHD diagnosis to benefit from this book. If you work with, care about, or want to better support neurodivergent minds, you will find this both insightful and practical.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Inside the Book you will explore:
- Why ADHD brains are wired for interest, not importance
- How to create a trusted “second brain” that reduces mental overload
- Simple ways to capture ideas without losing them
- How to organize work in a way that actually gets used
- Kind review habits that build momentum instead of guilt
- Practical strategies for starting, sustaining focus, and keeping projects moving
- How to work with energy rather than fight it
- Ways to make habits stick without relying on willpower
Everything is framed as experiments, not rules. You are encouraged to try what works for you and drop what doesn’t.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
The book is grounded in the CORD productivity model (Capture, Organise, Review, Do) from How to be a Productivity Ninja by Graham Allcott, adapted specifically for ADHD and neurodivergent brains.
Each section:
- Highlights common ADHD challenges
- Reframes them with compassion and understanding
- Offers gentle, practical experiments you can test in real life
WHAT IS INCLUDED
- A downloadable PDF eBook
- Practical tools, checklists, and experiments you can reuse
- Clear, accessible language with no jargon
- Lifetime access after purchase
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Giles R. Orford is an ADHD coach, former senior leader, and part of the Think Productive community. After two decades in high-pressure leadership roles, Giles trained in executive coaching and ADHD-specific coaching, blending lived experience with evidence-based approaches.
This book brings together:
- Real-world leadership experience
- ADHD coaching insight
- Think Productive’s human, flexible approach to productivity
PRICE
$19.95 USD
A one-off payment for a practical guide you can return to whenever focus feels hard.
Designed to support you again and again as you build better focus, habits and clarity in your work.