Do you wake up every morning in a great mood and immediately start wanting to talk about all of your great ADD-induced ideas? Are you full of energy and ready to leap from the starting blocks? Many of us with ADD are.
Adult ADD: Who Do You Trust?
If you have ADD and youre in a situation right now where you want an end result, whatever that may be, say… Make more money. And youre very specific about that end result, but have no idea how to get there, you have to ask more questions. It’s the only answer.
Adult ADD: Why Implementing ADD-Friendly Systems Are Important
If you have ADD, do find yourself wanting to make more money? Do you want to be happier?
Adult ADD : Replace Bad Habits With Good Ones
When you were a teenager, your friends maybe started smoking, and all of them want you to smoke with them. They make fun of you because you don’t want to smoke, and they’re generally giving you a hard time. Every day. Some kids resist, but others may cave in to the peer pressure. They finally break down and start smoking.
Adult ADD: Are You A “Fire” Fighter?
In business, we refer to the word “fires,” a lot of times. These are fires that happen, not literal fires, but things that need to be taken care of. A fire could anything that someone else thinks is really important and they come to you, and try to throw it on you as your problem because when you have ADD, you’re probably good at putting fires out.
Adult Add: Get Chunking!
Prioritization is one of the things thats totally abhorred by people with ADD. Logical, linear-thinking people have no problem when they sit down to write out the steps to a project—the first thing you do is step one, then two, then three. And linear thinking people have no problem with that. ADD people, on the other hand, have a horrible time thinking one, two, three. Because we say A, D, 27, 17, 0. And it all makes sense to us.
ADD – Combating The Dreaded Clutter Monster
When you woke up this morning and went to your home office, did you see the same stack of newspapers on the floor that’s been there since 1992? Or, what about your desk? Do you remember if it’s mahogany or metal? If you’re asking these questions, you may have ADD, and are suffering the dreaded clutter monster.
ADD – Got The Day-to-Day Boredom Blues?
ADD people are bored very easily, as you well know if you have ADD. People call us lazy, but it’s not that. We’ll put tremendous effort into things that matter to us, and that we enjoy. But how exciting is washing dishes or cleaning up a mess of stuff? Not very and it just doesn’t happen. We learn to live with our messes.
ADD: Emotional Issues Rear Up Early
How kids interact with other kids around them is one indicator of how well they will develop in life. Some will do well, and others will continue to struggle throughout adulthood. But if they have ADD, they will probably have trouble making friends or be outright rejected by their classmates when they’re very young. If you don’t recognize the signs, these ADD kids will often have the most trouble as they grow into adulthood.
ADD: Getting Through College With The Least Stress
Many people with ADD find it very difficult to stick to a four-year program at college and to get their degrees. College can be hard for anyone when there are 5 papers due all on the same day. But you have the added handicap of being easily bored and quickly finding distraction. So, though it’s no cakewalk for any college student, getting your degree can be particularly hard when you have ADD.
ADD: Is It Or Isn’t It?
In our busy modern world, the terms ADD (attention deficit disorder) and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is sometimes overused. Teachers who find kids to be unruly and daydreaming send notes home to parents and tell them, “Your child is not functioning. You should have him tested for ADD (attention deficit disorder),” or something like that. The problem is that not all behaviors that are disruptive in the classroom are caused by attention deficit. That’s true …
ADD: I’m Late!
Picture this: You just rolled out of bed. You have about half an hour to leave the house, but you’re no good without caffeine, so you run to the refrigerator, looking for the coffee that you moved to the pantry six months before. Then, once you’ve managed to get the coffee going, you go into your underwear drawer, and while you’re opening it, you see your brush, so you start brushing your hair. Then, you brush your teeth, and finally, you look back into the underwear drawer a…