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Summary: Read this with a notebook and pen handy!
Review: As a practicing psychologist and ADD-er, I can attest to the refreshing and useful nature of this book - both personally and professionally. An essential ingredient is creating change is motivation. Reading this, I found myself saying, "I can do that, that would work!" Grab that energy, make notes while you read about how to specifically apply their strategies, and just keep pecking away at it. "ADD-Friendly Ways" would also be appropriate for anyone whose lifestyle is approaching overwhelm - like multi-tasking mommies.... - Dr. Laura
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Summary: The best organizing book I've found for those of us with ADD
Review: For most of my life, I have known that I don't quite organize my things or thoughts etcetera like most people and all of the "Get your life organized" or traditional methods detailed in organizational books never seemed to help me.Then, perhaps a year ago, I picked up this book and what a transformation. Even the structure of the book is to capitalize on the attention span of those with ADD as each chapter is broken up into short pieces to make its point and then move on to the next one. Like anyone with ADD, I find that while doing some of the work on my own has been helpful, I definitely need to follow up with some of the "other support people" that the book describes. I might carry through one day or even for a string of days, but can quickly slip back into old, inefficient patterns (that often have been habit forming over a lifetime of being disorganized). I find that this book is very positive and makes you feel like having ADD can be a strength rather than a weakness. I hope you find it helpful.
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Summary: The best organizing book I've found for those of us with ADD
Review: For most of my life, I have known that I don't quite organize my things or thoughts etcetera like most people and all of the "Get your life organized" or traditional methods detailed in organizational books never seemed to help me. Then, perhaps a year ago, I picked up this book and what a transformation. Even the structure of the book is to capitalize on the attention span of those with ADD as each chapter is broken up into short pieces to make its point and then move on to the next one. Like anyone with ADD, I find that while doing some of the work on my own has been helpful, I definitely need to follow up with some of the "other support people" that the book describes. I might carry through one day or even for a string of days, but can quickly slip back into old, inefficient patterns (that often have been habit forming over a lifetime of being disorganized). I find that this book is very positive and makes you feel like having ADD can be a strength rather than a weakness. I hope you find it helpful.
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Summary: mitchielou
Review: Great Book!
Finally, an organizing book that really works wonders. It has me motivated to move forward into my piles of paper and crammed closets. I have made more progress using these ideas than any from any other source. I can really relate to most of the situations discussed within this book. I would highly recommend this book. I originally bought it to help my son learn organizing, but I have greatly benefited also!
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Summary: very helpful to me and my daughter
Review: I have a hard time staying online with what I need to do for the day. My daughter, who is a writer, needs to be organized but with a five-year-old and a husband in the military, it is very hard for her to do. I think the small steps you can take are the best. She can also use this for her son who is ADHD.
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Summary: By far the BEST!!!!!
Review: I have done TONS of research on ADD/ADHD since I found out 4 1/2 months ago at age 22 that I have ADHD. I can NOT believe how awesome this book is!
1st: It is laid out so that people with ADD/ADHD can read it more easily. I didn't know that I do read things easier if they are bullited and such. And this book is set up like that. Very easy to follow - both with/without ADD/ADHD.
2nd: The BEST format as far as information goes. It has a story of someone who does something (that is AD/HD related), then has ways that person can help themselves. Then step two has ways that person can get help from friends and family, and finally, it lists ways a professional can help. It also has lots of different ideas to help get organized that are easy, cheap and not too difficult!
3rd: This book can be set down and picked up at any given point with out the reader getting lost - and we all know that that is important when we talk about this catigory!!! I keep a mechanical pencil in the book at all times and am constantly circling/highlighting/staring next to paragraphs and sentences! I always jot down little notes in the margins of the book and I love to go back and read through them again for reference to myself!!!
A MUST BUY FOR ANYONE WITH THIS FUN, yet CHALLENGING lifestyle (I hate calling it a disorder!!).... Please spend your money on this book. You WON'T be disappointed!
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Summary: Finally!!
Review: I have read 7 or 8 books on ADD, all of which promised to suggest organizing strategies that someone with ADD can implement and maintain. Those books spent 95% of the time defining the problem, and the other 5% on general advice like, "you need lots of structure." I learned more about ADD in general from this book than any other, and I recognized several traits that I'd always struggled with, but hadn't realized were common among ADDers. This book gave me practical, useable advice on HOW to simplify and structure my life, so that I can achieve and maintain order and reach my goals without becoming overwhelmed and giving up in frustration. By implementing the maintenance strategies first, I now feel that I can tackle the chaos and clutter a little at a time, and get out from under. I can feel my depression lifting, and I feel hopeful for the first time in a long while. Great book!
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Summary: A Wonderful Book for ADD disorginization!!
Review: I would recomend this book to anyone with ADD, after reading books and magezines trying to organize my life this one was the best ever! It is so easy to follow with ending notes after each chapter to remind you of the important points in that chapter. It gives diagrams, pictures, and illistrations, everything an ADDer needs in a good book. Every chapter was like looking into a mirror but ACTUALLY getting help from it! Not just another ADD book that tells you you need therepy and this is what is wrong with you, it explains why you do these things and then give simple suggestions that are easy to follow. I would recomend this to anyone who has organization problems even those who don't but have ADD. I am going to pass this through my whole family so maby it can help them too!
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Summary: Get it now! And, make sure your partner reads it with you!
Review: I'm new to ADD, just learning what this means to my life, and my son's life. This book was an absolute godsend, not only in helping me identify and confirm many habits as being ADD-related, and in providing excellent strategies to work through them, but most importantly, in finally opening that window so my lover really finally 'gets it'. Read it with your family and support folk, cause all of you need to hear it.
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Summary: A Must Have for ADDers with organizing issues
Review: It's about time a book specifically about ADD and organizing was written. This book was well worth the wait! I was pleasantly surprised that the size of the book is larger than many other ADD books and so is the Print itself. The set up of the book is VERY "ADD Friendly". Main ideas are bulleted and highlighted. There are also review sections at end of each chapter. There are some very useful charts and even some a few pictures of specific organizing tools. The ideas and suggestion given in this book may be be very helpful to people with ADD. There are some great suggestion that seem too easy to help but as somebody who has used many of them, they do help.
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