ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life | Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau

ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life | Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau | Excellent, practical book

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	ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau Routledge, 2002 - 280 pages average customer review:based on 82 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very helpful, for adults.

I bought this book with my adhd 8 year old in mind. I have been trying to streamline our house and structure our daily routines to help him, and was looking for suggestions as to what needs to be done. However this book is mainly for adults who are dealing with ADD, not kids. This book has fantastic strategies for time management/awareness issues, getting distracted while cleaning/decluttering, money management, decision making, and when to ask for help with certain projects. I found a lot of helpful suggestions for myself, but not what I need for my young child. It did help me to see that I am "chronically disorganized" and would recommend it to anyone else who needs this kind of help, add or not.

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Excellent, practical book

This is one of the most helpful and practical books on ADD I have ever read. The descriptions of the effects of ADD are done in a clear and light-hearted manner. I found myself nodding with a strong feeling of identification to many of the anecdotes. There are wonderful suggestions on every page. The book itself is ADD-friendly: organized for easy skipping around, lots of bold type for headings and important notes. I particularly liked the hints on avoiding being overwhelmed when faced with a lot of organization to be done. I've been able to put a number of suggestions into use immediately, with good results.

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Me too - what?

What's great about the book is that opens each chapter with another patient example. It's great because, if you're like me?

You can relate.

The book makes your organizational problems and problems with time management more functional to the ADHD mind. It just does. When I think of all the "just make a list and follow the list" advice I got, or, "just set an alarm and stop doing the work when the alarm goes off," I start to realize that people have been talking down to me and my issue here. I don't like it. The 'list', in conventional terms, isn't for everybody.

What I like best about the authors approach, is that they try to ground their organizational tactics in narrative, and in patterns, and in people helping you achieve this goal, and in... in some many avenues that your crazy ADHD mind has no ability to avoid it. It encounters a self-symmetrical pattern every direction it turns that brings you back to your goal, and your plan, and your schedule.

For some people, that takes seven seconds in the morning. For some of us, it's taken a lifetime to begin to achieve.

Thank you doctors.

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Living with someone with add - this book helps a lot!

I am living with someone I suspected had add - at least symptoms. This book not only told about the characteristics in a very - this is what it is type way - then it gave 3 ways to deal with it. I found it to be helpful and gave me lots of ways to assist the struggle of time management, micro focus etc...
The frustration of saying the same thing over and over again is now replaced with a skill I learned to get things done for our household.
I really, really recommend this!

Geat help

This book was recommended for my husband and he really found the book helpful. He felt that many of the books he has read on getting orgnized or on time management were written for people without ADD. This book addresses not only many of the frustrations of having ADD and provides great solutions to each problem area with examples, but it is written in an ADD friendly style geared to how a person with ADD thinks. Also, as his partner, I found the book helpful because it identified behaviors that I hadn't previously attributed to someone with ADD which was insightful for me. Further, it also provided some helpful tips on how I could support him. So all in all, a useful book.

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