Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized (2nd Edition)
Susan C. Pinsky
Language: English
Pages: 127
ISBN: 2:00260207
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, are prevalent in society today, afflicting about 4.4% of the adult population, which is over 13 million Americans. Four out of every five adults do not even know they are ADD, and while it is often difficult to differentiate adults with true ADD from adults who are merely forgetful and disorganized, Organizing Solutions for People with ADD outlines new organizing strategies that will be of value to anyone who wants to improve their organizational, or lack of, skills in their life. The chapters consist of practical organizing solutions for ADD at Work; prioritizing, time management, and organizing documents, ADD at Home; paying bills on time, de-cluttering your house, scheduling and keeping appointments, ADD with Kids; driving them to various activities, grocery shopping and meals, laundry, babysitters, organizing drawers and closets, and ADD and You; organizing time for your social life, gym, and various other hobbies and activities. Color photographs that capture the short attention span of the reader are featured throughout, as well as sidebars and testimonials from adults with ADD, providing numerous organizational tips, such as, the importance of dividing time into minutes or moments, task completion, how to avoid procrastination, asking for help, and how not to be a packrat.
SOLUTION Stop torturing yourself with this tedious sock-matching sadism. Throw out all of your socks. Identify a style of medium-weight sock that you can wear daily, and buy a couple dozen of that style in your two most often worn colors. Voila! No more tedious matching issues—you will be down the cost of a couple of socks, and your drawer (if you don’t stack by color) will be a jumble, but you will have gained time, drawer space, and peace of mind. Go ahead and keep two or three pairs of
storage unit for that area. 8 Maintain through controlled shopping and constant purging; if the bookshelf fills up, get rid of some books before you buy more. Controlled shopping can also mean reducing physical stuff and relying more on technology. For example, switching to an e-reader will eliminate “stuff” (books) but not experiences (reading). CHAPTER 5 THE LAUNDRY LAUNDRY IS THE KIND OF CHORE THAT CAN BEDEVIL THOSE WITH ADHD. Because it’s an intermittent chore that requires lugging
Unlike teens, you will have to help your younger child by continuing to weed things out on your own before holidays and throughout the year. Please understand me, I am NOT authorizing a cruel and abandoned free-for-all; I am merely encouraging you to discreetly and sensitively get rid of those toys that he will never miss, or, if casually noted as missing, will not lament. You are his parent, you know what qualifies. It is just unfair to ask an ADHD child to focus his attention on every fast food
to procure helpful services. In terms of stuff, let’s look at the sock sample we discussed a few paragraphs earlier. Here, efficiency takes precedence over penny-pinching when we cast off the used socks and start again with all new socks in just two colors. The old socks, in time, would have needed to be replaced anyway, so that expense was merely brought forward, but laying out cash to buy a complete wardrobe of new socks all at one time (so they are all the same) is a true—though
great-grandfather was a rag picker by trade; he bought an old dress in one shtetl to tear up and sell for rags in the next. To engage in rag picking is to pursue a noble but time-consuming profession. But the question you must ask yourself is, is it your profession? Software engineers and full-time mothers don’t have the time to take on the duties of an itinerant junkman, and someone with ADHD certainly doesn’t need another attention-sucking habit. It is both nobler and simpler to just donate all