Rebecca Block, PhD

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This workbook on how to Build Lasting Motivation shares a series of 15 minute activities you can use to support a targeted area of the motivation ABCDs (Abilities, Belonging, Choices, and Dopamine). Download it, print it if you wish, and feel free to share your feedback!

Practical strategies to build lasting motivation

Tuesdays: learn why + design your experiment. Fridays: report back + adjust. Built around your real work, not added on top of it.

Researcher & Neurodivergent Coach

Becca Block, PhD

Researcher, educator, and neuroaffirming executive function coach.

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You've probably already tried the planners, the apps, maybe even medication. Some of it helped for a while. None of it stuck.That's not a discipline problem. It's a design problem.Most productivity advice is built for neurotypical brains. When you use it and it doesn't work, it feels like a character flaw. It isn't. Spicy Brains Get Stuff Done is a 6-week live program for busy working adults whose brains are wired differently: entrepreneurs, managers, and professionals who are done with generic advice and ready to build systems that actually fit how they work.There is no one path that works for every brain. This cohort gives you the accountability, structure, and community to find the right tools for yours.Past participants say: "I make decisions faster and with less second-guessing." "I trust myself more about what actually works for my brain." "The stories I tell myself about what I'm capable of have changed."

Stop managing symptoms. Start building a system your brain will actually use

Change how you see & work with your brain (Week 1)

Manage & reduce procrastination (Week 2)

Switch from panic-fueled drive to lasting motivation (Week 3)

Find the changes that actually help you focus (Week 5)

Make faster decisions with less second-guessing (Week 6)

Build your momentum & your custom toolbox (Week 7)

Managers, entrepreneurs, &amp; working parents whose brains work differently and want strategies that fit both brain + busy life

Adults with ADHD, autism, anxiety, or other differences who are done with productivity advice that wasn't built for their brain

Anyone who's tried the apps, planners, or sub-reddits and is ready for something that doesn't require them to self-start their solutions

Time Management for Brains that Work Differently

Educator, Researcher, Executive Function Coach (former NPO executive)

If we don't account for things like time-blindness, variable energy, or PDA then our time-management will fail

Common blocks to standard time management

Tools and tips that fit to the common challenges faced by neurodivergent adults in the workplace

Specific strategies for neuroaffirming time management

How to use a simple experiment log to discover the more custom strategies that uniquely work for your brain

Simple experimental methods to customize your tools

How to Navigate Transitions More Easily

Former NPO executive, Neurospicy coach

Transitions are tricky for most, especially those whose brains work differently. Learn more about why.

Understand why transitions are tricky

There's not just one right way to transition. Get options that suit the different sources of struggle.

Get concrete strategies to transition more easily

Tips are only as useful as their practice, and a laundry list of to-dos is overwhelming. Leave with a playful plan.

Plan to play with a strategy

Support your neurospicy brain by telling better stories

Author, neurospicy coach, former executive

We make meaning through story. If we tell stories that drain us, we can't make progress towards our goals

Understand why the stories you tell about your brain matter

Spot the stories you're currently telling about your brain, and whether they add to or sap your energy to get work done

Identify which stories are getting in your way

Practice revising an unhelpful story into one that's believable, productive, and helps you leverage your strengths

Revise the stories that keep you from reaching your goals

How to manage and reduce procrastination

Author, researcher, eductor, former NPO exec

You may also struggle with time management. But procrastination is a threat response, requiring different strategies

Bad time management isn't the root cause of procrastination

In fact, studies correlate procrastination with perfectionism rather than laziness or apathy.

Laziness isn't the root cause either

To handle procrastination you need to change your view of the task, your view of yourself, and how you set up your work

Learn directly from Rebecca Block, PhD