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5 Tips to Stress-Guard Your Family
Joe and Emily live in Southern California with their three young children. Both work and must commute 2 hours daily on busy freeways, often not getting home until 7:30 PM, exhausted and depleted.
Stressed, they have little patience for the...
How To Manage Everyday Stress
Often times stress will manifest when we carry over yesterday's
concerns into our present day concerns. An accumulation will
almost always end up in a high stress level. Therefore, we must
be able to "dump" all of our concerns from the previous...
Stress & Personal Development: When Navel-Gazing turns Nasty!
Generally speaking, the more we develop ourselves personally,
the lower our long-term stress levels. After all, discovering
our life purpose helps avoid the stress of pointlessness.
Developing better communication skills avoids many...
Taking Control Of The Stress In Your Life
Did you know that... Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.
Need some Stress Relief? Then read on.....
Everyone...
The Disciplines of Success
Success, in the dictionary, is defined as, “The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.” So why is success in our society defined by the balance in your bank account, the car you drive, or how big your house is? You are...
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8 Essential Skills for Managing ADD
So many adults with ADD find themselves chronically overwhelmed with every day life. This means that they generally wake up feeling like they are running behind on all the things they need to do, spend the whole day on high speed in order to get all those things done, and yet still go to bed most nights feeling like they never got anywhere. Or, they spend the whole day in a fog, constantly aware of all the things on that to-do list, but never mustering up the motivation to tackle the tasks. This leaves them feeling unorganized, unproductive, unhappy, lazy, guilty, and...the list goes on.
I used to be one of those people. Constantly overwhelmed and always disorganized. Through dedication, hard work, and lots of time and practice, I've gotten to a place in my life where I know how to manage my ADD. (The key word here is "manage.") Through both my personal and professional work, I've isolated what I believe are 8 Essential Skills for Managing ADD. Today I'd like to share them with you:
1. Slow Down
ADDers seem to always be operating on over-drive...mentally, physically, or both. In my opinion, slowing down when you feel speedy, stressed, overwhelmed, etc. is the first and most necessary skill for managing ADD.
2. Practice Excellent Self-Care
ADDers are prone to putting themselves last. Why is this? How will you ever "get it together" if you don't dedicate time and energy to yourself?
3. Know Your Own ADD
ADD affects us all in different ways. You can't effectively manage ADD without being aware of the specific ways in which it affects you, and
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the specific ways in which your challenges are triggered.
4. Actively Use Your Learning and Processing Modalities
Identifying the natural modalities in which you are able to sustain focus and process information and feelings will make your personal and professional lives much easier.
5. Focus on Your Strengths
Everyone has strengths, skills, talents, and passions. Increasing the time you spend on these good things will increase both your self-esteem and your happiness.
6. Think Positively
Patterns of negative thinking can be reversed. Negative thinking will hold you back. Positive thinking will propel you forward.
7. Plan the Time to Plan...Everything
Planning doesn't always come easily to ADDers. Developing tools and systems for planning will streamline organization and time management, but you have to take it one step further and plan the time to use them.
8. Take Risks
This doesn't refer to speed racing or skydiving! It refers to stepping outside your comfort zone and doing things that may be uncomfortable, like asking for that raise, taking up that new hobby, or pursuing that life-long passion. If you don't take the risk, you won't get the reward.
About the Author
Jennifer Koretsky is an ADD Management Coach who helps
adults learn how to manage their ADD and move forward in
life. She offers individual and group coaching, workshops,
and skill-building programs. Subscribe to Jennifer’s free
email newsletter, The ADD Management Guide, by visiting
http://www.ADDmanagement.com/e-newsletter.htm.
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