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ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 5017
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 280
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 1583913580
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8589
EAN: 9781583913581
ASIN: 1583913580
Publication Date: August 2002
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Product Description
Consumer text focuses on the particular dilemmas and challenges of adults with ADD. Provides organizational skills for life, allowing energy to be focused on strengths, rather than disorder, through the use of humor and compassion. Softcover.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 115
 Don't waste your money September 9, 2010
NOBD
If you have true ADD, you may never get around reading a book with 250 pages. People with ADD have short attention span, mostly not capable of sitting down and read long books. If you have ADD the chances are you will buy this book read a few pages then leave it on the bookshelf.
 It really is ADD friendly in the way its written August 7, 2010
Whitewater
UNLIKE many other books on ADD, this book is written to actually help you find and implement the practical and easy compensatory means by which to overcome the many difficult and dis-abling hardships to function normally in everyday society. Many other books I've attempted to read have provided much insight into what ADD is, why it is so misunderstood by both professionals able to treat those with ADD, as well as the general population at large, and also give a better understanding to the reasons how and why ADD affects your entire life so dramatically.
This book takes it a HUGE step further, and most of the book is dedicated to showing you specific techniques to self-coach and council yourself to over-come the crippling effects of this frusterating mental disorder. I have ADD very severely, and this is the first book I've come across which offers this sort of practical self coaching, as well, it is definitely written in such a way that it is a very easy read for adults with any type of ADD or AD/HD.
Currently I have no means to pay for an ADD coach or conselor, and this book has more than sufficed for what a very expensive ADD coach or conselor would cost me.
 Being organized is an ongoing practice, not a sacred special event July 20, 2010
AR
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Its important to learn everything you can about Adult ADHD, but while you're doing that you still need to pay the bills, return emails and phone calls and get your job done.
This book came along when I had been reading everything about how to reframe and think positively about my ADHD. While that work is important and ongoing, I also needed practical tips for organizing my worklife RIGHT NOW. That's why I bought this book.
It provides great, practical tips. The suggestions are specific and unprecious. The focus is never on being perfect. The biggest thing I walked away with is this realization: Being organized is an ongoing practice and not a sacred special event.
The authors also help you become aware of your default patterns and how to work with them. This awareness of unhelpful work habits and WHY I have tended to fall back on them has helped a great deal in getting more tasks done and feeling less paralyzed by guilt/anxiety. I know what I'm working with and feel more empowered and capable to deal with it.
This book is not sufficient in itself for working with your ADHD, but its a great tool for getting organized in terms of projects and administrative tasks at work, school and at home. I read a bit of it every day when I come home from work.
Not just for ADD adults June 23, 2010
Anne Terry (Southfield, MI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you get side-tracked when trying to tidy up, or get lost organizing one drawer when the whole kitchen is a mess, or wander from room to room with something in hand that just needs to be put away, this book will speak to you.
Among all the organizing books I've read, this one is a keeper. Provides a lot of the same tips from other authors, but the explanations help you more strategically perform the task at hand and achieve results.
I had lots of ah-ha moments, when the light bulb went on, and I could see what I was doing, and why it wasn't effective. With that, I had extra mental leverage to successfully implement some of the suggestions.
The writing is well done, but more importantly, the visual layout is very clear. The information is pretty easy to pick off the page. I'm not sure exactly what it is about the font, or the arrangement of the page, but whatever tricks thay are using in this book, elevate it above others in the same category.
Along with books by Sandra Felton and Peter Walsh, this book by Kolberg and Nadeau is now one of my favs.
at long last! June 14, 2010
Qira
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been looking for some way to shift my intractably chaotic life for many years. My wife and I have struggled and struggled for the past six years, in particular, to figure out ways to get me to do housework, keep a reasonably non-overcommitted schedule, and quit making a mess everywhere I go. NOTHING has worked. Not our problem-solving skills on their own. Not therapy. Nothing. Until we came to this book. It has helped me not to feel alone in my struggles. It has given us practical strategies. It is, granted, a very middle-class, couple-focused book. For me, at this time in my life, it was perfect.
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