In the mid- to late-60s, schoolchildren were taught that we’d have so much leisure time in the future that we’d have to come up with a plan on how to spend it wisely. I seems that the sixties futurists were wrong. Instead of slowing down, we’ve sped up.
How To Keep It Together When You Have ADD
When you have ADD, one thing you’re probably not great at is keeping your living space together. You might have piles of stuff everywhere, including laundry, which is all over the floor of the bedroom. We know what we need to do, but just can bring ourselves to do stuff that’s boring. Looking around at the mess can get a little depressing.
How Can An Add-friendly System Change Your Life?
Attention deficit disorder (ADD) wasn’t recognized until about twenty years ago. Before that time, children who didn’t sit still in their desk chairs, who seemingly daydreamed all the time, and couldn’t meet homework assignments were considered “bad” kids, whose parents had failed to give them sufficient discipline. The only option was to spank or punish them on a daily basis. We still don’t know what repercussions that type of parenting had on kids who just couldn’t do any b…
Adult ADD: Control Your Outer Limits
ADD folks have a lot of great things going for them. They’re creative, highly intelligent and intuitive, as well. But ADD also makes you sensitive, and you may not be able to show your emotions, especially if you’re a man. Certain emotions aren’t proper in society, and it really doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman. Most people go around hiding their true feelings for a good part of every single day. But did you know that doing this on a regular basis can hurt you?
Adult Add: Eat To Live
Being healthy isn’t easy, and if you have adult ADD, you may be skipping over this part entirely. You probably forget to eat meals and just grab whatever candy bar or fast food snack is at hand. You need to remember one thing, though. If you don’t eat, you die. Its’ as simple as that. So, even if you have to be led to the banquet table, you have to remember that healthy meals are not an option.
Adult ADD: Using ADD To Make More
In our last articles we discussed finding a way for you to get more money and how this works when you have attention deficit. But number one, youve got to know how much more money you want. Its not okay just to say, I need more money. How much more money do you need? That way, you can figure out whom youre going to target to get what you need.
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.
10 Simple Ways To Control Adult Add
Both adult ADD and adult ADHD has drawbacks, though we know there are great benefits in creativity, intelligence, and the ability to hyperfocus. Yet, some of the mundane tasks in the world can be helped by following these 10 easy steps:
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: 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…