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Tips On Dealing With Your ADD

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:38:00 +0000

If you’re an adult with ADD, then you may be familiar with the concept that (at times), slowing down is a very difficult thing to do. There are many tasks to complete and so little time to complete them. So your mind starts working at high velocity, trying to achieve your whole "To Do" list, or getting frustrated in your realization that completing all required tasks is not possible. As a result, you spend a lot of time worrying, and very little time getting pleasure from life.

While the process of slowing down is difficult to explain, it certainly is possible. Here are 6 established strategies to slow down the adult ADD brain:

1. Monitor and Control Your Work– Control your work/business hours. Admittedly at times it is necessary to work overtime, don’t do it unless it is absolutely mandatory. You will work more competently during the day when the time you have to complete your job is fixed. Additionally, take some time off–at least two or three weekends a month.

2. Arrange For a Night Out With Others–Nothing is better than having a night out with your friends. This may be with work colleagues,personal friends, family, or members of a group you are a part of. Be sure to let off a little steam.

3. Schedule a weekly event (Like Taking a Class or belonging to a club–play poker with your buddies or get together with your girlfriends for a dinner in a good restaurant): Find a reason to go out of the house and out of the office each week. Attend a class, if possible to learn something new . . . something you are passionate about. Ensure you pay for the class beforehand so you will not be tempted to make excuses not to go.

4. Maintaining a Daily Journal–This will make you take time out and reflect. It will help you in dealing with nervous tension and enhances clarity of mind. Try to do it every day. Don’t be bothered about sentence structure, syntax, punctuation, or flow since no one else ever has to see it.

5. Meditate– There are many approaches to meditation, but the one described here is ‘mindfulness meditation’. This is merely the action of being there in the present – whether you are working, walking, or washing the dishes. Make an effort to keep your mind in the instant, and do not ‘tag on’ worrying or troublesome thoughts or feelings. It’s OK to take ‘baby-steps’ at first, with 5 minutes spent in mindful meditation daily. After a week or so, build on your performance as you become more and more at ease with the process.

6. Turn Off Your Computer 2 Hours Before Bed– Computers are rather interesting, in particular for ADDers, frequently finding themselves sitting at their computer at 3 o’clock in the morning completely pre-occupied in exploring something totally arbitrary. They cannot move away from the computer and going to bed is just not a consideration. Set a deadline and get in the habit of switching the computer off at least two hours prior to going to sleep so as to allow time to wind down before going to bed.

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Quick Fix For Adult ADD Sufferers

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:41:00 +0000

Want to clean up your life? How about taking 5 minutes to do it in? Here’s how…

Back in the 1960s, people were concerned that because of all the modern conveniences we’d have, we would have to learn to do something in our "leisure" time. In 21st century, most of us wonder, What’s that? We’re working harder and going faster than ever before. And because the world is so busy, we often put off tasks that we hate to do. It’s that old ADHD procrastination, the approach-avoidance factor, that kicks in and leaves some things unattended to.

This happens to everyone, whether they have ADHD or not, but adults with ADD find this frustration compounded by procrastination or just plain inaction. What can you do to release the anxiety you may be feeling over your inability to complete the things you know need doing?

Assign Priorities To Your Projects

Well, it won’t, and the first thing you need to decide is whether it’s something you really need to do or just something that people think you "should" do. Some of that is just dumb. I mean, you "should" tie your shoes. Aside from looking neat and tidy, it helps you to keep from tripping. But is it really that important? I mean, if you like your shoes untied and you’re not putting yourself or someone else in danger, do you need to tie your shoes? No. But if you’ve stumbled around the house and were late for work every morning because you can’t find your glasses, then you have a problem with a messy house.

It’s no longer something people think you "should" have. You need a tidy house, just so you can find all your stuff.

Hiring A Housekeeper Might Not Work

The easiest ADD solution is to hire someone to take care of the mess for you–a housekeeper. But if it’s too nasty, they won’t want to handle it, either. You may have to call in an efficiency expert first to get things under control and then, a housekeeper to keep them that way, even when you mess them up.

Then again, you may not be able to hire people because hired help just doesn’t fit into your budget. You need to do these things for yourself. But you have no clue where to start, right?

Five Minutes A Day Is All You Need

Well, don’t look at the big picture and try to do it all at once. Take just 5 minutes a day to make your world livable again. You’ll be very surprised at how much you can get accomplished in that short a time, if you stay focused and anyone can focus for 5 minutes. For example, let’s say your underwear drawer is overflowing. You aren’t sure how all that underwear got into the drawer to begin with, but you have to do something! Take five minutes to sort the drawer in to three piles: keep, giveaway, throw away. I think you get the idea. At the end of the 5 minutes stop. Don’t do another thing. If you still have underwear to sort, stop and do 5 more minutes the following day. This way, you won’t get bored.

You’ll Be Back On Track

If you do the 5-minute work order, you’ll avoid procrastination. You can stand anything, aside from sheer torture, for 5 minutes, right? It’s not that much time taken from something you’d rather do. Set some time up, maybe in the time before starting your daily routine, or just after you get home from work at night. When you’ve cleaned out the underwear drawer, start with the cosmetics drawer or the bathroom cabinet, or whatever. You can have everything cleaned up by taking just 5 minutes per day.

Assign A Place For Each Of Your Things

To keep it that way, make things as ADHD user-friendly as you can. For instance, have a specific place to put your car keys when you come in the front door. Hang them on a hook, put them into a basket, or another place that’s easy to get to. If you like to just throw things, have a bowl or basket you can just toss the keys into when you get home. Or, keep a big mug or other container on your desktop where all your pens and pencils will fit. When you’re finished using the instrument, stick it into the container and keep it handy.

ADD Sufferers Don’t Like Complications

The whole point is that people with ADD don’t like complications in life. So, make things as easy for yourself as possible. Opening a drawer might be too much for some of us. So, think openness, where things can just be tossed, rather than "put away."

But we’re human and can easily fall back into our old habits of disorganization. If that happens, or the minute you suspect it’s happening, go back to the 5-miute-a-day routine, and get it back under control. You’ll be glad you did. You won’t be running around screaming,"Where’s my stuff?" again.

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