It is believed that people with common interest gel well. But what about those who suffer from ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)? How do they deal with their spouse who is normal and vice versa?
The 5-Minute, Open-Palm, Exploding Add Mess Technique
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 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: 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.
Adult ADD: Tackling Time Mastery
When you are dressed up really, really nice, like wearing your best suitwhen we say nice, we mean business nice, not out on the town nice necessarily. We’re talking about something youd wear to go present at a conference. Do you feel like you can harness the power of your ADD to get more done?
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: When One Does And The Other Doesn’t
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 : 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.
If It Weren’t For Add, We Might Not Have The Theory Of Relativity
Were you a question machine when you were a kid? How come dogs can poop outside, but you won’t let me? Why do raspberries have seeds? How do you know for sure that Santa Claus is watching me every single day? Doesn’t he have more important things to do?
A Special Education Success Story With Add and ADHD
In our rapidly moving culture, students diagnosed with ADD or ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) are an ever-increasing challenge for teachers. This is a true story of success in a six-week project where middle school children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD enjoyed the same success, if not more than, the other students.