Books : Organizing Solutions for People With Attention Deficit Disorder: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8589
EAN num: 9781592332342
ISBN number: 159233234X
Label: Fair Winds Press
Manufacturer: Fair Winds Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: December 01, 2006
Publishing house: Fair Winds Press
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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. Colour 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.
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The layout of Organizing Solutions resembles a magazine, having glossy pages with lots of images and little text. the layout simplifies finding ideas and makes it particularly easy for those withADHD or other learning disabilities to find tips quickly without getting lost in a jumble of text. it has sections covering each room of the house plus ideas of how to handle specific items or tasks that occur in those rooms (paying bills, folding laundry, etc.). as a basic intro for those who have not figured out how to organize many parts of their homes, or certain areas in particular, this could be a helpful book. but, for me, the flaws outnumber it's usefulness.
Pinsky spends too much time arguing for efficiency at the cost of beauty and frugality, which essentially means you need to have some money to implement her ideas. yardwork a hassle? hire someone. can't get your room organized? buy more furniture. there are a lot of helpful tips, but the wastefulness ("it is quicker and more efficient to use paper plates as your "china" of choice at everything but your most formal meals.") was too much for me to handle. in talking about efficiency, she frequently suggests using open shelves and open storage bins so it's easier to just toss (or, to use her term, "wing") things into the containers instead of wasting time with doors and lids. the problem with that system that she never addresses is how to handle the amount of dust that will get on everything and inside those containers, creating a new problem altogether (but i guess you just hire a housekeeper to handle that, as she suggests hiring one to clean other parts of the house).
if you're having trouble getting a particular part of the house organized, skim through that section of the book in a bookstore or library (they're nicely labeled and colour coded) to get some ideas, but leave the book behind.
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this book is amazing, it's like the author took many years to study my living habits. i never knew how much AD/HD affected my home life, i though it only effected school and driving. i bet it probaly effects the workplace too, i wonder if there is any books about that. the 2 most important things it said that struck me to the bone is how ppl with AD/HD require more engery imput into any task, so they get tired and overwhelmed much eaiser, and that what you don't see you forget about, end up buying duplicates of, and that is it hard for someone with AD/HD to get rid of stuff, getting rid of too much too fast is overwhelming. And as i had started to discover on my own that taking closet doors off helps me a lot to keep the closet organized and helps me to keep track of clean clothes and put them away eaiser, the book also said sometime you need to remove cubard doors, keep things out in the open, it may not me more attractive but it is more fuctional, fuctional is the key to keeping the AD/HD home organized. fuctional is easily accesable and easy to put back. The book goes into details of how to display things and where to put things so that it makes the most sence... it also gives us permision to not make our beds!!!! personaly with my bed when it's not in use (wich it is a lot, also explained in the book) i leave it with just the pillow and fitted sheet on it, all the sheets and blankets are on a shelf between the side of my bed and the wall. sometimes they are folded sometimes they are not, but it's easy acess and easy to put back and i dn't have to get out of bed att night if i wake up cold and need another blanket. some stuff in the book is logic, like subsequent to every phone there should be a notebook and a pen/pencil, personaly when i did this i velcroed the notepad and pen to the shelf subsequent to the phone. that is just a little of what the book is about, you have to read it for the details of how to do it. if you want to contact me for help beyond what the book can give you i am at fight_the_good_fight@hotmail.com Also i learned that having less stuff really does decrease stress, i had to spend a weekend away from home and only had 2 hours to pack, taking only the nessisties and living with only them really helped me focus on my life and what i needed to do about the things that werre stressing me out.
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As a professional organizer and the mother of a daughter, age 20, with ADD, this book offers a lot of great information that will benefit many of my clients and hopefully my daughter too! I even bought an extra copy for my daughter and hope she will use some of the ideas from the book. Great book, I would highly recommend it.
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I have a whole shelf full of organizing, cleaning, and time management books that have great ideas in theory, but when our ADD family tries to apply them only serve to make me feel guilty. This book not only gave great tips (ones that non-ADD people may read and think totally obvious and unnecessary to mention), but did so in a way that did not seem condescending or guilt-inducing. I also was very glad to finally see a book for people with ADD that was filled with beautiful pictures of reasonably (not perfect) clean and organized spaces. So often, we either see magazine-perfect rooms shown in books for homemakers without ADD or little to no illustrations at all in books for those with ADD...the ones who probably need the pictures the most.
My one criticism was with the expectation that the reader will be wealthy enough to afford, for example, a dishwasher. In the section on washing dishes, there was no mention even of what a person who does not have the means to have a dishwasher should do. There were other places were I felt that a level of material wealth was just assumed as well.
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I'm an easily overwhelmed woman with two small children. I own at least 30 books on how to manage "Adult ADD". This is by far the most useful. While I generally glean some information and tips from most books I read on the subject, this one stands out. The author endears herself to the reader in the very first pages by briefly writing that her daughter was diagnosed with ADD, and you get the feeling that she's sincerely, personally invested in figuring out how to really manage some of the issues that come with ADD. It's beautifully organized, sensitive, and good-natured - but the most appealing thing about this book is that is repeats very little information I've read in other books. It is truly original, with lots of ideas I've never seen that have helped me greatly. I've found that generally, if you've read one ADD "tip" book, you've read them all. This book is a striking exception to that rule. I highly suggest it!
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