I’m seeking the best guidance/ coach that can help me navigate the path forward.

[Akerue]

I was naive in my early years fresh out of structured living. My misunderstanding of my frustrations in my 20’s lead me to master my coping skills. These skills helped me form a business that had allowed me to remain naive about the root cause of my confusion and frustration. Through my 30’s I experienced success in work by applying my super powers of focus. I simultaneously was destroying my marriage. My 40’s finished off my relationship through my inattentive character. Now late in the game in early 50’s I’ve accepted my diagnosis and am being treated with medication. I have time left to build up some present and future deposits into my family’s emotional accounts. I would appreciate some direction with coaching or programs that will speed up the loss of executive functions. My wife suffered needlessly supporting my craziness. I’m no longer naive but astonished at the descriptions in article after article that read as if they were a biography.

[STEM_Dad]

The only ADHD coaching that I've done, so far, is the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability program (abbreviated as "ARC").

It is a 10-week intensive coaching program, and as such, it's more expensive than hiring a solo ADHD coach would probably be over the same span of time.

I found ARC to be a good experience. Some of what the program covered were strategies that I already knew. There were also some new concepts for me.

The main benefit that I got out of the program was a social benefit. All of the people involved have ADHD...the coaches, participants, and everyone else. The support was amazing!

It is pricey (currently almost $3000), and I could only afford it at the time because I'd cashed out a retirement account, so I could afford moving across the country. (I normally struggle to find a spare $100-200 in my budget in any given month.)

[Akerue in reply to STEM_Dad]

Thank you. I will look at this. Given all the resources I’ve wasted with simply not finishing things, this program cost would seem insignificant. That is one of the things I’ve done over the years, justify my actions with statements as such.

[STEM_Dad in reply to Akerue]

It's the only experience that I have with ADHD coaching, other than my initial counseling (when I got diagnosed with ADHD, in the first place).

That doesn't mean that other coaching isn't good. But I can definitely say that ARC was a good experience. It's also touted to have a very high completion rate (I think the figure is 99%).

That being said, I know that I haven't been putting all that good information to use yet. (It's time to review those files again. I feel like I'm starting to plateau at my new job.)