Elisa Hausner
Cover of The ADHD Motivation Toolkit by Elisa Hausner: a sage-green kettle with a yellow sticky note on it, beside a coral mug on a wooden kitchen bench.

The Adult ADHD Toolkit, book 1

The ADHD Motivation Toolkit

Executive Functioning Tools for Adults Who Can't Get Started: Simple 5-Minute Exercises That Work Even on Your Worst Days

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The promise

It's a Tuesday. You've known since seven what you need to do. You have not stood up. This book is for that day: eight small tools that work when motivation doesn't, each with a five-minute version for your worst days.

Is this for you?

  • You know what needs doing and can't make yourself start.
  • You've bought ADHD books and not finished them.
  • Long systems fall apart by Thursday.
  • You want tools, not a lecture.

What's inside

  • The Two-Minute Doorway
  • Shrink It Until It's Stupid
  • Put It Where Your Eyes Are
  • Borrow Some Urgency
  • Make It Interesting On Purpose
  • Don't Do It Alone
  • Restart Without the Shame Tax
  • Protect the Fuel
  • The one-page Bad-Day Protocol
  • A 30-day gentle plan
  • Worksheets: write-in pages in the paperback, free to print for Kindle readers

The bad-day promise

You don't have to finish this book. Open it on a bad day, do one box, close it. That counts.

Free printables for this book

Every worksheet from the book, in A4 and US Letter, free at elisahausner.com/toolkit.

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Read the first page

It's a Tuesday. You've known since about seven this morning what you need to do. It's not a big thing. A form, or an email, or the kitchen. You've thought about it, on and off, for four hours. You've thought about it in some detail. At one point you made a small internal speech about how this time would be different.

You have not stood up.

If you've picked up this book, you've probably had that Tuesday, and you've probably also had the book you bought about it. Most ADHD books are good. Most of them are also written for the version of you who feels capable: the one who can sit down, read a chapter, absorb a system and put it into practice. That version of you exists. She's just not the one who needs the book. The one who needs it is on the couch at eleven in the morning, and she can't read a chapter, because reading a chapter is a task, and tasks are the problem.

This book is built for her.

From the Introduction: Built for the day you can’t

The books and printables offer strategies and tools. They are not medical advice or treatment.