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Need Help Finding Your Passion? Use This ADHD “Brain Blueprint”

Tracy OtsukaFebruary 22, 2021

Finding your passion is the first step to living a full, authentic life. Use this visual tool to effectively probe your ADHD brain. You’ll discover your values, strengths, and interests — and forge a path tailored for you.

“What If My Intense Drive Is Because of — Not in Spite of — My ADHD?”

Tracy OtsukaSeptember 23, 2020

Like many women with ADHD, I’m a high-energy, creative thinker, boycotter of the status quo, and classic over sharer. I’ve long used these traits to help me succeed in life. You can, too. It all begins with hope.

“What Should I Do with My Life?” 6 Revealing Questions for Adults with ADHD

Tracy OtsukaJuly 23, 2020

Adults with ADHD sometimes blow in the wind — directionless due to difficulties with long-term planning and decision-making. To devise an authentic life plan, ask yourself these questions to reveal your values, strengths, and passions.

Tracy Otsuka's List of Strength-Focused ADHD Resoures

Tracy OtsukaSeptember 19, 2019

If you listen to my first podcast you can see that my views around ADHD really changed the more I dove into the research. I'm a make lemonade out of lemons person so I always gravitated towards a more strength-focused bias but the guidance that was out there in the form of books and studies […]

My Favorite Tech Tool: How The Apple Watch Saved My ADHD Brain

Tracy OtsukaJuly 24, 2019

Read the full blog here: https://www.tracyotsuka.com/apple-watch/ This blog is all about the Apple Watch and how I use it to manage my ADHD brain. I didn’t want an Apple watch, I don’t want to wear anything that everyone else is wearing. 🙊 That said, once I did, I realized just how valuable it could be to […]

Reward Deficiency Syndrome

Tracy OtsukaFebruary 25, 2019

We know that with our ADHD brains we can often feel less motivation to work towards a reward but have you ever reached your goal and you feel less satisfaction than you thought you would feel in reaching this goal? Yeah, in college I coined it post final depression and it's exactly why we often […]

On Building a Backbone and Not Backing Down Ever, EVER Again

Tracy OtsukaAugust 4, 2018

She folded in on herself in an instant, her legs tucking neatly under her body as her shoulders slumped. Her eyes shining bright with huge unshed tears, my beautiful friend Kate was crestfallen, her Princeton-educated brain fixated on the text that had just popped up on her cracked iPhone screen. “SORRY, SOMETHING’S COME UP. I’LL […]

For Lessons On Success, Add Will Smith, Football, a Teenager and Stir

Tracy OtsukaJune 4, 2018

Let’s be real. Will Smith is one of the most likable human beings in existence. (<–Not actually hyperbole.) In his movie, Concussion, he plays real life Bennett Omalu, a Nigerian born pathologist with no knowledge of football who fights the NFL after they try to discredit his research that repeated blows to the head ultimately leads to […]

Your Life’s Purpose Called (Spoiler Alert: Lighten Up)

Tracy OtsukaApril 23, 2018

To be honest, I don’t remember his name, just the red Schwinn bike he’d ride in on, ditching it on the lawn, his eyes gleaming as he excitedly gushed about how much he Loved washing windows—with a capital L. My husband and I had just moved into our very first house, and my 26 year-old […]

I Thought Parenting was My Life’s Purpose: I Was Wrong

Tracy OtsukaApril 2, 2018

My ambition is restless and my drive is relentless. There’s this need I’ve always had—a constant calling to do things differently than they’ve always been done, a calling to start something new. I’d already been an attorney, spending my days prosecuting Fortune 500 execs. I’d founded a luxury women’s wear company whose client list boasted […]

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