1070: An ADHD Strategist’s Pro Tips for Staying Motivated and Productive When You Can’t Focus with Skye Waterson

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Skye Waterson shares ADHD-friendly approaches to productivity that any professional can apply.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The quickest way to shorten your to-do list

2) How to stop overthinking and make a decision

3) How to make hard tasks more fun

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— ABOUT SKYE —

Skye Waterson is an ADHD strategist, coach, and founder of Unconventional Organisation, helping entrepreneurs and executives stay focused, build consistent revenue, and scale—without burnout. With 82K+ engaged professionals following her work, she shares ADHD-friendly strategies for sustainable success.

After her ADHD diagnosis during her PhD, she realized traditional productivity advice didn’t work for her. So, she developed strategies to help entrepreneurs and executives cut through distractions and focus on what matters, build ADHD-friendly systems for consistency, scale sustainably without exhaustion, and lead with confidence and regain control over their time.

• Instagram: Unconventional Organisation

• Podcast: The ADHD Skills Lab

• Website: UnconventionalOrganisation.com

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• Study: Dopamine transfer deficit: a neurobiological theory of altered reinforcement mechanisms in ADHD

• Author: Naval Ravikant

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0:00.0	Your systems are probably broken, not your brain.
0:14.0	Being able to work with different systems makes it a lot more fun.
0:17.9	It's not just better for you and what you do, but it's also a lot more fun.
0:22.9	Most people that I see who fail to actually get tasked done once they understand this strategy,
0:31.0	they fail to get tasked done because of a feeling that I ought to be able to just do it.
0:39.5	I should just be able to do it.
0:40.9	I don't understand why I can't do it.
0:42.6	Everyone else can do it.
0:43.9	And that feeling, unfortunately,
0:46.4	can hold you back from actually doing the task. That's Sky Waterson. She's an ADHD strategist, coach, and the founder of unconventional organization.
1:06.1	She uses academic research to formulate strategies and systems that are ADHD friendly to help professionals
1:11.5	achieve sustainable success. So you'll learn one, the quickest way to shorten your to-do list.
1:16.8	Two, how to stop overthinking and make a decision. And three, how to make hard tasks more fun.
1:23.1	And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actual takeaways from Sky, I recommend you
1:27.0	sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter found at Awesome at Your Job.com.
1:31.5	I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now, here's Sky.
1:40.0	Sky, welcome. Hi, it's great to be here.
1:43.2	Well, I'm so excited to hear your wisdom.
1:45.9	You are an ADHD strategist and coach.
1:50.0	That sounds handy.
1:52.0	You know, we've had over a thousand episodes, but we have not taken a laser shot directly at ADHD before, though it kind of comes up tangentially fairly often.
2:05.4	So could you first of all maybe just define what are we talking about here?
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