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Adult Attention Deficit Disorder What does ADD look like in an adult? the symptoms that are consistent with adult ADD, and can assist you in finding
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Are you someone whose whole existence is rushing from one thing to the next thing, constantly apologizing, Im so sorry Im late. What did I miss? Or do you run from meeting to meeting or miss appointments with the dentist? (Or ignore them, because you know you wont make the appointment anyway.)
Do have ADD, and is that your life? Do you feel incompetent? Stuff like that can wreak havoc on your self-worth, especially if you have ADD. You begin to feel that the image youre putting out is that youre an idiot, because you cant do things on time. But youre far from that. ADD people are generally very intelligent. But their ADD takes them in many directions at once.
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Do have a hard time when you want to focus and concentrate? to any of these questions was yes, then you may be suffering from Adult ADD.
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How to Succeed with Adult ADD. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) presents a set of challenges for an adult who wants to succeed on the job. Develop strategies that
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People with ADD also have a tendency to over-promise: Yes, of course we can do these 72,000 things in the next half hour. No problem!
If you have ADD, you may wonder how you can stop these behavior patterns.
People that dont have ADD go from one thing to the next, to the next, to the next, to the next. You need to get yourself to that place. Use your ADD ability to hyperfocus to do it. When you do, your life will be extremely well managed, but its not necessarily something that you do on your own behalf. You may have to ask for help, as in delegating tasks that can be done by someone else.
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And you have to recognize that there are different kinds of time. One strategy that you can use is managing your time by blocks, by types of activities, so that you can have flexibility in your calendar and easily move from one thing to the next. Consider three types of time in your life, thats it. With ADD, if your scheduling isnt simple, it just gets too confusing.
One type of time is Focus time. That means no distractions. That means nobody gets to walk in and ask you a question. Nobody gets to have an appointment with you. Nothing. Literally put that on your calendar: 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.: Focus Time. NO interruptions.
If youre focused on a project, work on it then, and allow everything else to just move away. Train the people in your house, the house cleaner, your neighbors, etc. Let them know that you dont want to be bothered during that time.
Then have some Flex time. Flex time is when you really want to get something done, but you realize that there probably will be interruptions. The phone might ring, somebody might come to the door; you might have to go to a client appointment, whatever. In Flex time, you expect interruptions.
Instead of working on intense projects during this time, do something thats fairly easy and can be done around interruptions, so that your ADD doesnt. This might be a good time to clean your house, put away groceries, or to run errands.
Then theres Free time. Free time doesnt include have-tos. During this time, there should be no demands placed upon you. You get to do whatever you feel like in that block of time.
If you have a book you want to read, a television show you want to watch, or a video game you want to play--all free time activities.
Perhaps you want to schedule some of this free time in the middle of your day, as well as at the end of it. That way, your ADD brain keeps from being bored and may find sticking to the schedule easier.
With ADD, its easy to become muddled if there are a thousand things to do. But if you order the kinds of time you have--focus time, flex time, and free time--and plan for them daily, youll no longer have to worry about missed appointments and not getting things done on time.
You wont have to think of yourself in negative terms anymore, either. You wont over-book because you know you wont have time for it. Having ADD, youll need to write your schedule down every. If you follow it, youll not only have controlled your ADD, youll be a less frustrated person.
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