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| ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 1237
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 1583913580
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8589
EAN: 9781583913581
ASIN: 1583913580
Publication Date: August 2002
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Product Description
Organizing books fall short of addressing the unique needs of adults with ADD. They fail to understand the clinical picture of ADD and how it impacts the organizing process often making their advice irrelevant or frustrating when put into application. Books about ADD may address organization/disorganization but do so in a cursory fashion and on a very small scale in what are usually long books on the subject. This is a book that has ADD-Friendly advice with the ADDer in mind. This collaboration brings forth the best underlying understanding with the most effective and practical remedy from ADD experts in two important fields -- professional organization and clinical psychology. Finally, it offers organizing advice that ranges from self-help to utilizing the help of non-professionals, to using professional assistance. Thus it permits the reader to decide where they are at personally in the organizing process, and what level of support will be most beneficial to their unique situation.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 77 more reviews...
 By far the best organizing book I've read. September 17, 2008
I have read probably half-a-dozen organizing books, and this one has the most readable, usable format of any I've seen. Let's face it, many of the people who have trouble with organizing have elements of ADD, if not full-blown, diagnosed ADD. This book offers lots of suggestions on ways to look at and tackle organizing tasks, and while organizing will always be a challenge for some of us, the tools offered will make it more accessible. One thing that I wish was covered in more depth is the tendency to hoard.
ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life August 24, 2008
This book is a gift to adults with ADD. I have only read 2 chapters and it has already made a big difference in my life. As I read, I recognize myself on each page and then I get suggestions on how to better cope with different issues and situations.If nothing else, this book has given me hope. I strongly recommend it to any adult with ADD. It is a great tool.
 These people know how ADD brains work August 17, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book addresses the challenges that adults with ADD face every single Day. There is a section in each chapter called: Is this your history? It is if you:
1.Find that forgetfulness and lack of planning add to your daily stress;
2.Resort to making an impulsive decision just to get it over with;
3.Allow people or circumstances decide for you;
4.Let escape activities interfere with your responsibilities;
5.Tend to hyperfocus and lose track of time;
6.Live in crises, reacting to circumstances;
7.Thinks that everything is a "A" in your priority list;
8.Rarely step back to consider what really matters;
9.Have difficult to remember and follow future tasks;
10.Has a cluttered house, bedroom, or office.
You will find yourself in the stories related in this book and will find solutions for your problems. I did not give five stars because I do not agree with some "Level Three Solutions-Help from Professionals", but the book is good.
Authors speak from experience April 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These ladies clearly know first hand what it's like to live with ADD by any name. Their approach to the problem is easy to understand and effective in that it teaches you how to work within the limitations of this condition and play to it's positives. A very useful and practical approach.
 Not that impressive or helpful April 13, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Too many books read like the author just copied articles on a subject and crammed them into a so-called book. This was one of those. There just wasn't any helpful information in it and I thought it was a waste of money.
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