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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; If you&#8217;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&#160;your whole &#34;To Do&#34; list, [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you&#8217;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&nbsp;your whole &quot;To Do&quot; list, or&nbsp;getting frustrated in&nbsp;your realization&nbsp;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.</p>
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<p> 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:</p>
<p> <strong><u>1. Monitor and Control Your Work&#8211;</u></strong> Control your work/business hours.&nbsp;Admittedly at times it is necessary to work overtime, don&#8217;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&#8211;at least two or three weekends a month.</p>
<p> <strong><u>2. Arrange For a Night Out With Others</u></strong>&#8211;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.&nbsp;Be sure to let off a little steam.</p>
<p> <strong><u>3. Schedule a weekly event</u></strong> (Like Taking a Class or belonging to a club&#8211;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.</p>
<p> <strong><u>4. Maintaining a Daily Journal&#8211;</u></strong>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&#8217;t be bothered about sentence structure, syntax, punctuation, or flow since no one else ever has to see it.</p>
<p> <strong><u>5. Meditate&#8211;</u></strong> There are many approaches to meditation, but the one described here is <u>&#8216;mindfulness meditation&#8217;</u>. This is merely the action of being there in the present &#8211; whether you are working, walking, or washing the dishes. Make an effort to keep your mind in the instant, and do not &#8216;tag on&#8217; worrying or troublesome thoughts or feelings. It&#8217;s OK to take &#8216;baby-steps&#8217; 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.</p>
<p> <strong><u>6. Turn Off Your Computer 2 Hours Before Bed&#8211;</u></strong> Computers are rather interesting, in particular for ADDers, frequently finding themselves sitting at their computer at 3 o&#8217;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&nbsp;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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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Want to clean up your life? How about taking 5 minutes to do it in? Here&#8217;s how&#8230; Back in the 1960s, people were concerned that because of all the modern conveniences we&#8217;d have, we would have to learn to do something in our &#34;leisure&#34; time. In 21st century, most of us wonder, What&#8217;s that? [...]]]></description>
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<p>Want to clean up your life? How about taking 5 minutes to do it in? Here&#8217;s how&#8230;</p>
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<p>Back in the 1960s, people were concerned that because of all the modern conveniences we&#8217;d have, we would have to learn to do something in our &quot;leisure&quot; time. In 21st century, most of us wonder, What&#8217;s that? We&#8217;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&#8217;s that old ADHD procrastination, the approach-avoidance factor, that kicks in and leaves some things unattended to.</p>
<p> 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?</p>
<p><strong>Assign Priorities To Your Projects</strong></p>
<p> Well, it won&#8217;t, and the first thing you need to decide is whether it&#8217;s something you really need to do or just something that people think you &quot;should&quot; do. Some of that is just dumb. I mean, you &quot;should&quot; 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&#8217;re not putting yourself or someone else in danger, do you need to tie your shoes? No. But if you&#8217;ve stumbled around the house and were late for work every morning because you can&#8217;t find your glasses, then you have a problem with a messy house.</p>
<p> It&#8217;s no longer something people think you &quot;should&quot; have. You need a tidy house, just so you can find all your stuff.</p>
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<p><strong>Hiring A Housekeeper Might Not Work</strong></p>
<p>The easiest ADD solution is to hire someone to take care of the mess for you&#8211;a housekeeper. But if it&#8217;s too nasty, they won&#8217;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.</p>
<p> Then again, you may not be able to hire people because hired help just doesn&#8217;t fit into your budget. You need to do these things for yourself. But you have no clue where to start, right?</p>
<p><strong>Five Minutes A Day Is All You Need </strong></p>
<p> Well, don&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s say your underwear drawer is overflowing. You aren&#8217;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&#8217;t do another thing. If you still have underwear to sort, stop and do 5 more minutes the following day. This way, you won&#8217;t get bored.</p>
<p><strong>You&#8217;ll Be Back On Track</strong></p>
<p> If you do the 5-minute work order, you&#8217;ll avoid procrastination. You can stand anything, aside from sheer torture, for 5 minutes, right? It&#8217;s not that much time taken from something you&#8217;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&#8217;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.</p>
<p><strong>Assign A Place For Each Of Your Things </strong></p>
<p> 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&#8217;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&#8217;re finished using the instrument, stick it into the container and keep it handy.</p>
<p><strong>ADD Sufferers Don&#8217;t Like Complications</strong></p>
<p> The whole point is that people with ADD don&#8217;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 &quot;put away.&quot;</p>
<p> But we&#8217;re human and can easily fall back into our old habits of disorganization. If that happens, or the minute you suspect it&#8217;s happening, go back to the 5-miute-a-day routine, and get it back under control. You&#8217;ll be glad you did. You won&#8217;t be running around screaming,&quot;Where&#8217;s my stuff?&quot; again.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How To Control Adult Add Both adult ADD and adult ADHD have drawbacks, though we know there are great benefits in creativity, intelligence, and the ability to hyperfocus. Yet, some of the mundane tasks in the world can be helped by following these 10 easy steps: 1. Color Code Your World: When it comes to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Both adult ADD and adult ADHD have drawbacks, though we know there are great benefits in creativity, intelligence, and the ability to hyperfocus. Yet, some of the mundane tasks in the world can be helped by following these 10 easy steps:</p>
<p> <strong>1. <u>Color Code Your World</u></strong>: When it comes to things like what to do with the dirty clothes, color-coded bins that make sorting easier is a great way to streamline laundry day and to keep sleeping spaces neat for people with adult ADD. Rather than tossing clothes wherever they may land, get bins color-coded to the laundry sorting ritual. Use white for whites, colored for colors, and black for dark colors. You may want an extra one, just for clothes that could bleed into your other laundry, like red, for instance. Or, you may want to put delicates in another colored bin. It&#8217;s up to you how you use your adult ADD creativity</p>
<p> <strong>2. <u>Keep it open</u>:</strong> People with adult ADD don&#8217;t do well with space that is too structured, probably owing to time spent in school desks as a kid, and this is especially true for adults with ADHD. Allow your home to be as open as possible to allow yourself to move around whenever you need to do that. Don&#8217;t have too much furniture or other things that can get in your way.</p>
<p> <strong>3. <u>Make deadlines for yourself</u></strong>: Even if there isn&#8217;t a hard deadline for some project you&#8217;re working on, set one anyway. This helps adult ADD people to stay on task and the urgency factor may help you to keep from being bored.</p>
<p> <strong>4.<u> Chunk it up</u></strong>: Rather than looking at a huge project and freaking out because it just seems too daunting, remember how to eat an elephant&#8230; one bite at a time. Break big projects into a series of smaller ones.</p>
<p> <strong>5.&nbsp;<u>Be a multitasker</u></strong>: What&#8217;s wrong with that? Just because linear-thinking people can only do one thing at a time, that shouldn&#8217;t limit you. So, listen to music while you&#8217;re preparing that boring report for work. Bake some cookies so you can smell them while you&#8217;re working, too. Involve as many senses as you need to so that you aren&#8217;t bored.</p>
<p> <strong>6. <u>Be a time waster</u></strong>: We all are, generally. But when you have adult ADD, time wasting activity can really bring your productivity to a halt. If you feel like you want to waste some time, then do it, but set a time limit, say half an hour. Do whatever it is you want to do to waste that time, and then back to work!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/d/dk/dkmhl/1129322_mother_and_daughter.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="75" /><br /> <strong>7. <u>If you&#8217;re going to waste time, you&#8217;ll need a timer</u></strong>: Yes! When it&#8217;s wasting time, set a timer for the time you&#8217;ve allotted to waste. Or, use the timer for hyperfocus time. Use whatever time you set to work on something boring that just has to be done, like balancing your checkbook. When the timer goes off, you can get back to doing something you like to do better. Set the timer again. Then, go back to the checkbook and continue the process until it&#8217;s done.</p>
<p> <strong>8. <u>Treat yourself like a child</u>:</strong> When you have particularly angry moments or when you&#8217;re just so worked up you can hardly stand it, go into a separate room, away from people and get your ya-yas out. When you have adult ADD or ADHD, these periods are bound to arise, so don&#8217;t take them out on other people. Go somewhere that you can be alone until your temper settles back down.</p>
<p> <strong>9. <u>Workout</u></strong>: Or find some other form of exercise, like running or swimming. This helps to relieve your pent up energies, which are inherent with adult ADD and even more so with ADHD.</p>
<p> <strong>10. <u>Plan regular meals</u></strong>: Adult ADD often gets us so hyperfocused on what we&#8217;re doing that we actually forget to eat. By keeping a routine, this may ease the burden of remembering to provide sustenance for our own bodies.</p>
<p> These ideas are all ways to make dealing with adult ADD or ADHD easier. Try some of them, and if they work for you, then add others to your daily routine. In fact, email this story to friends who have adult ADD and email a copy to yourself. That way, it will always be close by.</p>
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<p>When I was a child ADD/ADHD was not a diagnosis that had been identified. I was considered hyper active and was the child who presented a challenge to the teacher because I could talk to my neighbor, and at the same time know what question the teacher was asking and then answer the question. If you were in my school I could have been the one sitting in the hall so I couldn&#8217;t talk to my neighbor.</p>
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<p> It used to be that anyone who couldn&#8217;t stay organized was easily distracted, and tended to be overly energetic. Children were labeled &quot;problems&quot; and adults were thought to be lost causes. But today, we realize there is an organic brain condition that causes some people to think and function differently than the majority of the population. These people are often very creative and intelligent people when they are in a supportive environment.Here is some information to help us learn more about <a href="http://www.adultaddhelp.net">Attention Deficit Disorder </a>&#8211; also known as ADD to the general public.</p>
<p> Those who have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit thrive in a structured environment. They can be most productive by setting up simple systems for completing daily tasks and follow the same daily routines. For instance: getting ready for the day, cleaning the house or finishing up the day at their office.</p>
<p> They need to have a lot of reminders if they tend to forget appointments, get distracted, or lose their train of thought. It may help to have an organizing buddy or friend to support them in their goals to stay on track. Setting an alarm on their watch, putting up sticky notes, or making a running list of things to-do in a single notebook or planner will help. Sticky notes can be lost or become clutter so a notebook or planner can be the most effective way to keep track of things that need to be done and appointments to keep.</p>
<p> Those with ADD are accomplished people and need to focus on those things they have accomplished, not focusing on the 15,000 things they haven&#8217;t done yet. As with everyone they need to pat themselves on the back for what they have done in any given day and know there is always another day to accomplish other things that need to be done.<br /> Published by <a href="http://www.adultaddhelp.net" target="_blank">Adult Add Help </a></p>
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<p>On the contrary, I am spending hours into the night conceiving and developing new business ideas, and thinking up brilliant plans for my photography and design skills which call for very little &#8230;&nbsp; <a style="font-size: 9px; color: #108eed; font-family: arial" href="http://a-prayer-for-our-nation.blogspot.com/2008/11/adult-add-memory-issues.html" target="blank">..</a></p>
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<p>To date several gene candidates have been found in families who demonstrate ADHD, however, scientists feel that it is not one particular gene but the interaction of several of these genes and<a style="font-size: 9px; color: #108eed; font-family: arial" href="http://add.about.com/od/adhdthebasics/a/Inherited-ADHD.htm" target="blank">&#8230;.</a><a href="http://www.additudemag.com/adhd-web/article/4789.html" target="_blank"></a></p>
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<p>Get organized with adult ADHD thanks to 33 time management tips and organization advice for parents with attention deficit disorder. ADHD symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment information&#8230;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.thaimarathon.com/2008/09/18/adults-living-with-add/" target="_blank"><strong>Adults Living With ADD </strong></a></p>
<p>Symptoms are monitored in a variety of areas such as interaction in the family unit or in relationships. Social, home and work settings are also monitored.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;Marilyn Bohn&#8217;s Bio<br /> Marilyn is a creative organizer who has been organizing for over 20 years. She is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers and is working towards becoming a Certified Professional Organizer. She holds a bachelors degree in Social Work. She has reared five daughters and currently lives in Utah.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a neurological disorder that impacts individuals in four main categories: Inattention &#8211; causing people to have problems paying attention, focusing on a task, or finishing tasks, especially if they are not very interesting tasks. Impulsivity &#8211; causing a lack of self-control. Impulsive behaviors, or choices, can cause havoc in relationships, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a neurological disorder that impacts individuals in four main categories:</p>
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<li><u>Inattention</u> &#8211; causing people to have problems paying attention, focusing on a task, or finishing tasks, especially if they are not very interesting tasks.</li>
<li><u>Impulsivity</u> &#8211; causing a lack of self-control. Impulsive behaviors, or choices, can cause havoc in relationships, work, school, or life.</li>
<li><u>Hyperactivity</u> &#8211; Many (though not all) with ADHD are bouncy and hyperactive, always on the go as if they were driven by a motor, and always restless.</li>
<li><u>Being Easily Bored</u> &#8211; Unless the task is very stimulating, like a video game or TV program or outside playing, those with attention disorders are often easily bored by a task -especially bored by homework, math tests, balancing checkbooks, or doing taxes, and many of these tasks just never get done.</li>
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<p> Children, teens, and adults can all suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It impacts over five percent of all children and teenagers, and about three percent of all adults. Less than half of the children with ADHD will ever out-grow the symptoms in adolescence or adulthood. If left untreated, ADHD can have some very serious long-term probles that can last into adulthood.</p>
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<p> Most people with ADHD will never out-grow the symptoms of their ADHD even as they enter adolescence or adulthood. Though the brain continues to mature into the twenties for females and into the early thirties for males, and with that maturation typically comes a lessening of ADHD symptoms, for many as they head into young adulthood the symptoms only slightly lessen, or do not improve at all.</p>
<p> This month another reminder of this was published in a national survey of 1,007 adults with ADHD. The survey looked at how adults with ADHD cope at home, at work, and in relationships with others. The survey was published just in time for the 2008 Chadd Conference, and the 2008 ADHD National Awareness Day. What the survey found was that, of those adults with ADHD:</p>
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<li>75% reported that ADHD strongly impacted their ability to stay focused to a task long enough to complete it;</li>
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<li>70% reported that ADHD strongly impacted their ability to focus on what others were saying;</li>
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<li>Two out of three reported that their Attention Deficit Disorder strongly impacted their ability to perform their responsibilities at home;</li>
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<li>Sixty percent said that ADHD strongly impacted their ability to stay seated through a business meeting, or to organize their projects, or to follow through with their projects at work, or at home, until they were finished;</li>
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<li>Fifty-seven percent said that their ADHD caused major problems in their relationships with their families and friends;</li>
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<li>Over one-half reported that ADHD strongly impacted their ability to advance in their work place or career; and one-half reported that ADHD caused them to have to work harder than others just to accomplish the same amount of work as those at their workplace who did not have ADHD;</li>
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<p>The survey group was asked how they would like things to be, what they would like to see improved in their lives through treatment, and they reported the following:</p>
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<li>50% reported that they would like to get their house organized, and 28% reported that they needed to get their personal finances more organized;</li>
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<li>Four out of ten knew that they needed to get their emotions and moodiness under control, as that was a problem in their relationships with others;</li>
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<li>One-third felt that their ADHD symptoms were still not under control even as adults, and said that they often felt depressed thinking about how hard it is to be an adult with Attention Deficit Disorder; and one-quarter wanted to improve the quality of their relationships with those they really cared about in life.</li>
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<p> The study was headed up by Ed (Ned) Hallowell, M.D., who has written some important books on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, such as Driven to Distraction. The study was funded by McNeill Pediatrics, which, by the way, markets CONCERTA (methylphenidate HCI) for the treatment of ADHD in adults, as well as in children. Hallowell is a paid consultant for McNeill Pediatrics. So there is an element of this study that is designed to market CONCERTA to those adults who are not receiving any treatment, or who feel that their ADHD is not under control.</p>
<p> But this study is much more important than just that.</p>
<p> IF conservatively five-percent of the children in the United States have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (some say the number is as high as nine percent) and IF conservatively fifty-percent of these children will out-grow their ADHD symptoms by the age of twenty or thirty as their brains mature, and IF there are about 300 million people in the USA, THEN there are at least 7,500,000 adults alone dealing with adult ADHD.</p>
<p> And if 38% of them feel that their ADHD is not under control, or are depressed by their ADHD, and so on, well thats a lot of people suffering from ADHD even into adulthood (38% of 7.5 million adults with ADHD is 2,850,000 adults who feel it is out of control or feel depressed because of their ADHD).</p>
<p> If you are an adult with ADHD, and you are feeling that you cannot get ahead at work because of it, or you cannot get organized, or motivated, or get your moods under control, there is help for you.</p>
<p> Medications like Concerta can help. There are several good choices of stimulant medications can help you to increase your time on task, improve your focus to the boring tasks, and help you to get things done. Consider medications as a treatment option and talk to your doctor about it.</p>
<p> We also like people to try the combination of an ADHD diet (including high protein, low carbohydrate breakfasts and some caffeine), with ATTEND, Extress or Deprex (for mood stabilization if needed) or Memorin for memory improvement. Learn more about these at the ADHD Information Library. With either of the approaches above, counseling or coaching for ADHD as well as for skills and strategies to improve relationships and work performance are essential.</p>
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<p> recently tried playing the card game hearts again &#8211; and failed miserably. Counting cards and ADHD, it turns out, do not mesh. ADHD symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment information f
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<p>Ongoing problems in school, jobs and relationships can be an indication of adult ADHD. Some of the disorder&rsquo;s signs include poor attention span, easy distractibility, impulsivity, poor.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;Recently I&#8217;ve been wondering if the problems I and my stepkids are having with my husband, are his ADD (undxd.) I would love some direction, ideas, pat on the head, anything that might help</p>
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<p> Even if I have depression or ADD, i&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s the stimulation of my mind that keeps me at being miserable or just remembering my problems keeping me miserable. Like, the novel&#8230;&nbsp;<br /> 
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Managing Your Job With ADHD Do you hate your job? Do you intensely dislike the people who work with you? Do you put things off until your boss roars because you&#8217;ve not gotten a project done? Are you just totally and horribly unhappy? If you have adult ADD, this could easily be true. The 40-hour [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>&nbsp;Managing Your Job With ADHD</strong></p>
<p>Do you hate your job? Do you intensely dislike the people who work with you? Do you put things off until your boss roars because you&#8217;ve not gotten a project done? Are you just totally and horribly unhappy? If you have adult ADD, this could easily be true.</p>
<p><!-- WSA: ad in context adult-add-4 not shown: too many ads --><br /> The 40-hour work week might seem like a strait jacket for you, and it might hinder that great ADD energy and creativity you have inside. But you also have the ability to hyperfocus and get things done, providing that they&#8217;re projects that interest you. You&#8217;re probably great at things like detecting and solving problems, but you probably shy away from the paperwork involved. It&#8217;s just too boring!</p>
<p> Don&#8217;t worry! The problem can be solved in a couple of different ways. You can adjust some of your work habits, or you can find a job with you love and that loves you in return.</p>
<p><strong>Get Out Of An Office </strong></p>
<p> The most obvious solution seems to be running your own business. This is a good situation for someone with ADD, who can organize and plan things, or if they can hire someone or have a partner who can do these things for them. This won&#8217;t be the ideal situation for everyone with ADD, but it does allow you to unleash your creativity and to function on your own terms.</p>
<p> Yet, people with ADD often enjoy fast-paced situations. Firefighters, police officers, and EMS technicians all have this kind of job. People who trade stocks, auctioneers, and food servers are high energy jobs, as well. However, you can really work any job, if you have ADD symptoms under control.</p>
<p><strong>Need To Take Small Steps To Complete Projects</strong></p>
<p> Impulsiveness can have you taking off on tangents, just because something other than what you&#8217;re supposed to be doing interests you. One major problem with ADD is that we try to do too much. Someone asks for another project to be done or task that needs accomplishing, and we say, &quot;Of course, we can do that.&quot; Learn to hold back a little. Don&#8217;t overwhelm yourself, just because you want to try new things. But instead of overloading yourself, try to underload yourself. Do less than you think you can do. When you try to handle too much at once, you might make yourself much more unhappy in the long run. Besides, when you find yourself with free time, you can always work in other tasks as time permits, rather than making another ongoing committment.</p>
<p><strong>Stay On A Structured Schedule</strong></p>
<p> When you&#8217;re distracted. Try setting a timer that will beep periodically to help you remember to stay on task. Or, break up your work schedule. Do ten minutes of the job you hate doing or is boring for you, then, do 10 minutes of something else you like to do. You can fit as many as 6 activities into an hour, and rotate through them. That way, you&#8217;ll never be bored, and you&#8217;ll always be on task because your attention span is accommodated. If your attention span is longer than 10 minutes, perhaps you&#8217;ll rotate 4 tasks per hour, but try this and see what span of time works for you.</p>
<p> Boredom is hard to deal with for most adult ADD-ers. We just can&#8217;t stand to be bored! The rotating tasks technique can work for you, if you are easily bored, but you should also try to do the boring things you have to do when you&#8217;re at high energy times of the day. And never hesitate to delegate whenever possible. What&#8217;s boring to you might be someone else&#8217;s fun.</p>
<p><strong><br /> Set Daily Objectives</strong></p>
<p>Just don&#8217;t procrastinate. Get the hard parts of your job done first, and the rest of that job will go more quickly because it will seem easier. Never anticipate things. Get them over with because the faster you get the thing you&#8217;re procrastinating over done, it will be gone, out of the way. An accountability partner can help you with this. Find someone who will rattle your chain if you don&#8217;t have things done on time.</p>
<p> But if it&#8217;s your co-workers that are giving you cause for pause, look in the mirror. Could their antagonism actually be your fault? Try not to go off into long lectures about things that nobody is interested in, anyway. And if you interrupt people in conversation, and catch yourself doing it, apologize and stop talking. Don&#8217;t be blunt, either. Though honesty is always good, it&#8217;s not always socially polite. Try to be more tactful and your inter-office relationships will improve. <strong><br /> </strong></p>
<p> <img src="http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumbimg_256/1207596966t2T579.jpg" alt="Managing Your ADD" />Any of these ADD-related situations can cause work problems. But don&#8217;t jump to another job, just yet. Try some of these strategies and see if they don&#8217;t help you to be more productive and more sociable. Yet, if you can&#8217;t, if you&#8217;re still that square peg, find a more flexible job that will suit your ADD abilities and make yourself a happier person.Published by Adult ADD</p>
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