Posts filed under ADD Success
ADHD Success: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Isn’t it odd how our ADHD makes us love change and excitement yet transitions and lack of routines totally mess us up? Transitions, changing from one activity or circumstance to another, certainly makes me loose my traction. When my routines get jumbled I can literally feel my brain spin out of control. Combine transitions with… (read more)
True Confessions of an ADD Mom
I’m primarily an ADD / ADHD Business Coach. That’s why I don’t often write about my challenges around being a mom with ADD. Yet, I had a flash of awareness last night I believe will help other moms in coping with ADD / ADHD. Since Attention Deficit is genetic, most of the ADD moms I… (read more)
Why Self-Care Is Important to Managing ADD Symptoms
Lately I’ve posted many ADD Success blogs about how to manage your ADD / ADHD symptoms with self-care: exercise, sleep, diet and supplements. Self Treatment for ADHD: Remembering To Take Your Supplements Why ADD / ADHD Adults Don’t Exercise Why Exercise Helps Manage ADD / ADHD Symptoms What’s the link between ADD / ADHD Symptoms… (read more)
Self Treatment for ADHD: Remembering To Take Your Supplements
At the risk of sounding like your mother, “Take your vitamins!” Vitamins and supplements, especially Omega-3 Fish Oils, are important parts of self treatment of ADHD / ADD. You know you need to take vitamins, but do you? If not, why not? If you’re like my ADD coaching clients, you probably don’t take your vitamins… (read more)
Living with ADD / ADHD: The Comparison Trap
When you’re living with ADD / ADHD it’s easy to fall into the Comparison Trap. When do we ever feel content with the life we’re living? If you look to the lives of others, you’ll always find yourself lacking. Look instead at what you have, and be grateful. Reduce your needs, and be content. And… (read more)
Getting ADHD Adults Organized – Habits Matter
Trying to get organized with Adult ADD / ADHD? Habits matter. Good or bad, habits keep you doing what you do. Make your bed every morning? That’s a habit. Don’t make your bed? That’s a habit, too. The short form. Pay attention to your habits and whether they support you or undermine you. (And yes,… (read more)
ADHD and Exercise: Find Your Key to Motivation
Have you lost your key? The key to unlocking your motivation to exercise? Motivating yourself to exercise with Adult ADD / ADHD isn’t rocket science, but you do have to outsmart your resistance. Dana to the rescue! I’m here with my keyring of exercise motivators; real life ADD Success stories about what gets me and… (read more)
How I Control My ADD Symptoms and Manage My Time
As an ADD Coach, managing my time is a high priority. I gotta walk my talk. If I can’t manage my own ADD symptoms, how can I help my clients? Talking to clients on the phone is only one part of my work day. I also cover the not so glamorous parts of running my… (read more)
Organizing Adult ADHD / ADD for Taxes
You don’t know it yet but, at the end of this article you’re going to feel a lot more confident about how an ADHD Adult can get organized for taxes. Adult ADHD and getting organized to file taxes are not a good combination. Many of my clients, especially single people or two-ADHD couples, are burdened… (read more)
Six Truths About Successfully Managing Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
1. Build your life around your strengths and avoid your weaknesses. What ADD adult hasn’t been told to just try harder? Yet trying harder rarely works for someone with Attention Deficit. You’ve got to outsmart your ADD. You’ll find more success much faster by centering your life around what you’re good at than by trying… (read more)
