Does ADHD Medication Ruin Creativity?
Short answer: No!
To believe otherwise is to conflate your creativity with your ADHD as if one depended on the other. When you are diagnosed with ADHD late in life you just can’t imagine life without your ADHD and, therefore, you assume that your other qualities, like creativity, will suddenly diminish if your ADHD symptoms diminish. [...]
Paper-Based Planning for the ADHDer
The ADHDer’s difficulty with visualizing time, along with the (inevitable) boredom that comes with the task of planning, turns this activity into a dreaded nightmare. However, I’ve recently adopted (created, one might say) a multi-part system that has helped enormously with this boring but essential life task. It allows me to plan my days and [...]
Your Precious Email…Bah…Humbug!
You know those 8,422 precious emails that you are saving in your Inbox?
Do you really need them?
Sure, you feel attached to them. You want to hang on to them because they represent fleeting moments of thought, of time but, really, do you need them? They just clutter up your Inbox and create anxiety.
“OMG!! What if [...]
Latest Issue of ADDitude Magazine Is Dedicated To Jeff’s ADD Mind
I’m pleased to announce that the entire Fall 2010 issue of ADDitude Magazine is dedicated to Jeff’s ADD Mind. In this issue you’ll find my article, “My New Normal,” appearing on page 31 of the magazine (it also ends on page 31). It offers a look at my eclectic (some might say “gifted!”) organizational methodology. [...]
A Clock For Your Desktop
Tara McGillicuddy pointed out in a recent blog post that the most important time management tool for an A.D.D.er is an analog clock. Unlike digital clocks which simply tell time, an analog clock offers a concrete visual conception of the passage of time. For those of you who are tied to your computer, you may [...]
Are You Really Multi-Tasking?
I bet you think you accomplished a lot today. Before you pat yourself on the back, read the description below. Does it sound like your regular work day?
“[M] ulti-taskers [...] tend to get part way into one task, then notice a sticky note by the computer and start working on that one, when the next [...]
Time Management Tips
Five time management tips from Jennifer Koretsky.
Take 15 minutes every single day to plan your schedule. A small investment in planning goes a long way towards reducing stress and overwhelm.
Always keep a to-do list. Your to-do list is your friend. It helps you keep track of all those tasks that are so easily forgotten.
Pay attention [...]
New Web-Based Time & Task Manager Skoach: Powerful Enough to Manage ADD, Office ADD, and Other Time-Related Obstacles to Success
Skoach [a web-based time management software] wraps features like automated scheduling, phone-in task and appointment adding, SMS and email reminders, agenda building, and guided project planning into one centralized and intuitive system. Skoach can even be synchronized with popular business tools like Microsoft Outlook to integrate existing and shared schedules and tasks. Skoach has been [...]
Recent Postings in the A.D.D. Blogosphere…and Beyond
Goal Setting Series Part 1: The ADD-friendly Way to Set Your Goals
Goal Setting Series Part 2: The Key to Follow Through
Goal Setting Series Part 3: Acknowledging, Tracking, and Measuring Your Goals
A.D.H.D. and Bipolar Disorder: Results of a Recent Study
Self-Help for Adult A.D.D.ers
High School Girls with A.D.D.
Boost Your Productivity
Here’s another laundry list of suggestions for increasing productivity. Below are the first three suggestions from the list.
Nuke it! The most efficient way to get through a task is to delete it. If it doesn’t need to be done, get it off your to do list.
Daily goals. Without a clear focus, it’s too easy [...]
An A.D.D.er’s Review of “Odd One Out: The Maverick’s Guide to Adult A.D.D.”
I was quite excited to purchase a copy of Jennifer Koretsky’s Odd One Out. I have been reading her newsletter since 2005 and found that it was easy to read and it always offered useful ideas. So when I got the book I expected some deep, philosophical tome based on years of [...]
White Noise Helps with Concentration
Here’s some scientific evidence to back up the claim that A.D.D.ers concentrate better with a bit of noise.
See: White Noise Helps with Concentration
And here’s some additional information on this finding.
The noise is believed to affect the child’s dopamine levels, which affect concentration. In children with ADHD, dopamine levels are low, and the background noise helps [...]
Pen, Paper & Planner: A Methodology for the Capture of Human Interaction both Planned and Present and Its Suitability For Use By Adults Who Have the Fictitious Disease Known as A.D.D.
The first planner that I used was Lotus Organizer® for Windows 3.1. It used an intuitive “tabbed” metaphor (pretty innovative for its time) and could produce wonderful paper calendars and phone directories and contact histories and more. In fact, I spent so much time putting in data and then printing it out that, well, I [...]
Vacation Panic
Vacation Panic: a feeling that you have forgotten something very important but you can’t remember what that “something” is. This feeling becomes more intense – and paralyzing – the closer you come to the beginning of your vacation period. It may disappear during the vacation and it definitely reappears the day you return home.
Vacation [...]
Getting Things Done
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David Allen, a productivity expert, will have a regular column on The Huffington Post. Allen writes,
What I do is based on a radically common sense notion that with a complete and current inventory of all your commitments, organized [...]
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