I never found an effective handbook for “How to Do Life With ADHD.” Life is a complex moving target, with no Do-It-Yourself manual listing specific algorithmic, step-by-step means of achieving success.

Adolescents and young adults decide the successful direction and approach to their futures in dizzyingly rapid and constant change and growth stages. It is nearly impossible to guess, anticipate, or extrapolate where these changes will take them. Skills acquisition, passions, and effort are all hard to predict, as is the success or failure that results. Young people find themselves trying to hit this moving target of life while in motion.

Based on my own life and the entire experience of my clinical career, students have the best and highest academic selves that long to evolve. And this evolution can take many forms.

Unfortunately, many students lack what forensic science labels the Method, Motive, and Opportunity to access and create this ideal self. And these students are becoming increasingly frustrated as they realize they lack even the first step of awareness of what they need.

Our program intends to gather in one place and provide the previously missing information, support, and guidance to successfully empower students with ADHD to create their path in life.

This path will involve discovering and choosing what is most important, remaining energized in states of excellence to pursue prioritized goals, and monitoring and managing finite personal internal resources. And for when failure inevitably occurs, guidance will provide the necessary help to avert, recover, and learn from the experience. Ideally, this path begins or furthers a journey to a life of meaning and purpose.