ADHD Time Management Workbook for Adults: Planning, Executive Function Tools (Therapist-Written PDF Download)

Do hours seem to disappear even when you are trying hard to stay on track? You may underestimate how long ordinary tasks take, remember an appointment but still leave late, become absorbed and struggle to shift, or create plans that do not fit the time and energy you actually have. This workbook offers a kinder, more practical way to understand those patterns and test supports that fit real life.

For adults with ADHD, time-management friction can involve time awareness, estimation, activation, working memory, prioritizing, shifting attention, and follow-through. These patterns are not character flaws, and they do not look the same for everyone. This workbook uses warm, plain-language teaching, fictional composite examples, worked examples, practical tools, and focused exercises. It teaches each idea before asking you to practice it and encourages you to try one support at a time instead of building another overwhelming system.

Created by Caroline Aaron, MSW, LICSW, a licensed therapist. This is a therapist-written educational resource from Peppie & Bean Therapy Tools.

Inside the workbook:

Your ADHD Time Support Pattern Quiz, a 20-item non-diagnostic reflection that helps you notice which time-support area may deserve attention first and choose a practical place to begin

Plain-language teaching about ADHD, executive functions, time awareness, estimation, working memory, priorities, activation, distraction, hyperfocus, and transitions

Tools for making time visible and comparing estimated time with actual time

Real-life planning around fixed anchors, available capacity, energy, hidden steps, and realistic buffers

Task-starting supports, five-minute ignition practice, priority tools, focus supports, and ways to preserve a starting point after interruption

The Leave-Time Formula with worked examples for calculating travel, parking or check-in, buffers, and preparation time

Three labeled alarms, a launch pad, the no-extra-task rule, and a before-I-leave checklist

The 60-Second Time Reset and a Minimum Viable Day plan for lower-capacity or disrupted days

A seven-day support experiment, review pages, and My Personal Time Support System

Fictional composite stories, therapist notes, diagrams, worksheets, and a hopeful closing section

What you receive:

One 69-page full-color PDF

One synchronized 69-page low-ink PDF designed for easier home printing

Two PDF files total

US Letter pages measuring 8.5 by 11 inches

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Download the two PDF files after purchase. Print the complete workbook or only the pages you want to use. Printer settings vary, so select Fit to Page if needed and review your print preview before printing.

This is a digital product. No physical workbook will be mailed.

Purchase includes personal use and use with the purchaser's own current clients within the purchaser's professional scope. Files may not be resold, redistributed, publicly uploaded, shared, rebranded, or altered for resale.

This workbook provides general education and reflection. It is not an ADHD diagnostic test, psychotherapy, medical treatment, or a substitute for individualized care. A workbook quiz or rating scale cannot diagnose ADHD. Seek support from a qualified professional when needed. If you are in immediate danger or unable to remain safe, call 911 or your local emergency number. In the United States and its territories, call or text 988 for crisis support.

Copyright 2026 Caroline Aaron, MSW, LICSW. Peppie & Bean Therapy Tools. All rights reserved.