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 [...]
PDF 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. Print PDF
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 [...]
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 writing a newsletter.1 [...]
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 [...]
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
THE FOLLOWING IS AN UNPAID, UNSOLICITED PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT DO NOT ADJUST YOUR DIAL! STAY TUNED FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION! 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 [...]
52 Tips for (Yech!) Happiness
Don’t be confused by the title of this post. I’m all in favor of happiness. But when someone offers tips on how to be happy I feel the urge to strangle that person. My inner A.D.D. child screams, “WAKE UP! THERE’S A WORLD OF PROBLEMS THAT NEED TO BE SOLVED.” This inner scream is often [...]
Conservation of Chaos: The A.D.D. Improvement Process
I thought I had it all together.1 I put up a new blog that focuses on cooking and for one of the posts I wanted to have pictures (Sorry…the blog is no longer up.) In the past, cooking would be a three hour process, two hours of which were dedicated to cleanup. It usually went [...]
It Does Improve…Really…It Does
As I write this I’m surrounded by one of the “markers” of A.D.D. – those ever growing “piles.” My desktop is covered with piles of paper and there’s also a pile on the floor. The dining room table has a pile though it’s not as high as the one on the floor. Still, after three [...]
Becoming More Productive (Surgeon General’s Warning: DNWFE)
I’ve spent much of my life reading articles like “12 tips to a better life” and “10 tips for saving money.” And I’ve tried to follow the tips and found that often they don’t work. Maybe it’s because they are not usually written by an A.D.D.er for an A.D.D.er. No matter, the real problem is [...]
Creating the “Action” Habit
I thought this might be helpful to both A.D.D.ers and non-A.D.D.ers. People at the top of every profession share one quality they get things done. This ability supercedes intelligence, talent, and connections in determining the size of your salary and the speed of your advancement. Despite the simplicity of this concept there is a perpetual [...]
Getting Beyond A.D.D. “Paralysis”
A.D.D.ers can easily enter a state of “paralysis” ” of complete inaction” when their to-do list grows exponentially. According to Jennifer Koretsky, this happens when you become consumed by all of the things you must do (“consumed by the future”) and, simultaneously, you are consumed by your legacy of past mistakes (“consumed by the past”). [...]
