Josh started The ADHD Survival Kit project after attending a workshop called 'your mess is your message'.
He remembered the worst period of his ADHD symptoms and how helpless that had felt before realising just how much his quality of life had improved over 10 years thanks to his coping strategies and mental models he developed.
He was inspired to put everything he'd learned into one place, so that someone else could learn (in days) what had taken him years of trial and error.
Over the next month he wrote the book and then launched it on TikTok gaining over 15,000 followers and viral reach (800K) within the first month.
Josh Leach Author, Animator
The mission
Josh is on a mission to develop The ADHD Survival kit into a short course.
The vision
Adulting is hard but there are still things you can do to make it easier.
The vision is to help people free up time and energy from the 'mundane' daily tasks -that wear people down into low energy states. So they can have more time and energy for their friends, lovers, family, creativity, social causes, engage with books, films, culture, dance late into the night etc. things that make time meaningful and memorable.
Modern life has all sorts of ways of pulling (and pushing) us into downward spirals, low energy foggy states of mind. Which makes it harder to take care of ourselves and be present for each other.
But what if: we could get faster at recovering from downward spirals?
What if: there are simpler, easier ways to manage everyday things that no one taught or showed us how?
There is an urgent need for non-clinical support.
In the UK, the average NHS waiting list for an ADHD assessment is 2-5 years. That's a long time to struggle without access to the support on the other side of diagnosis. And unless your symptoms showed from before the age of 12 you don't fit the diagnostic criteria.
Meds can help you *start* tasks but they won't teach you how to make them easier, faster or more efficient. Pills don't teach skills.
Support and influences
This project is in part possible thanks to the influence, support, efforts and thoughtfulness of many people.
I would like to give them some honourable mentions.
Your mess is your message workshop
Personality Hacker Joel & Antionia
Reconstellation
creative cohort
SuperCycle
Tee Barnet
& Emily Dana
influence
Visakan Veerasamy
British association for Psychological Type
Sue Blair
Jerry Gilpin
Leadership Programme
By People make it work
Richard Watts
Lucy Bramley
Vicki igbokwe
Tam Kaur
guidance
Diana Boothby
Other Support
Natwest Business Accelerator
Enterprise Natioin
The King's Trust
Other Influences
Carl Jung
Marie Kondo
Samin Nosrat
Peer Support
Kay
Chris O