Adult ADD - Eating Is Good
Do you sometimes have trouble remembering things? Do you forget doctor's appointments? Are you late for meetings? All of this stems from your ADD. Everything in the world is constantly distracting you. So, what's missing in your life? A system.
One system that is very inexpensive is a computer program called "Time and Chaos," which organizes and manages your daily routine. If you have ADD, you probably don't really have much of a daily routine, and that's the whole thing. Even if you use this program, you may do different things every single day, but everything is scheduled in. Schedule in work, meals, what time you're going to get up in the morning, when you're going to exercise--schedule it all in.
ADD may keep you from sticking to a schedule, and that's OK, but this system is very clear and easy to follow, so it will be hard to miss appointments and such. Ten minutes before each appointment or task, a little pop-up window reminds you that you have something else to do. It's very cool.
This kind of scheduling also allows time for you, so that you can be in top condition, and you'll have a very high level of energy. Schedule in meals, too. If you forget to eat, you're cranky, then sick, and it just deteriorates from there on.
Schedule in your tasks for a week in this software or Outlook or any other kind of scheduling software and see if it doesn't work well for you. Your ADD may be balking, but believe us, this really works. Your mind will be free to create and do the things that ADD people love to do.
But the key to this is that for every problem that you're facing, you can say to the people around you, "You guys, why don't you think about this? Don't you know I have to eat?" Or, instead of blaming somebody else, you can say, "Okay, something's not working; we need to change the system."
Even after you start using an ADD-friendly system, you may need to change it. And that’s what it's all about. It's not that you put something into place and you have to stay so rigid to it. That won't suit ADD people at all. You have to be constantly looking and saying "What's working in my life; what's not working?" The things that are working--let them be. The things that aren't working, change the system.
One system that is very inexpensive is a computer program called "Time and Chaos," which organizes and manages your daily routine. If you have ADD, you probably don't really have much of a daily routine, and that's the whole thing. Even if you use this program, you may do different things every single day, but everything is scheduled in. Schedule in work, meals, what time you're going to get up in the morning, when you're going to exercise--schedule it all in.
ADD may keep you from sticking to a schedule, and that's OK, but this system is very clear and easy to follow, so it will be hard to miss appointments and such. Ten minutes before each appointment or task, a little pop-up window reminds you that you have something else to do. It's very cool.
This kind of scheduling also allows time for you, so that you can be in top condition, and you'll have a very high level of energy. Schedule in meals, too. If you forget to eat, you're cranky, then sick, and it just deteriorates from there on.
Schedule in your tasks for a week in this software or Outlook or any other kind of scheduling software and see if it doesn't work well for you. Your ADD may be balking, but believe us, this really works. Your mind will be free to create and do the things that ADD people love to do.
But the key to this is that for every problem that you're facing, you can say to the people around you, "You guys, why don't you think about this? Don't you know I have to eat?" Or, instead of blaming somebody else, you can say, "Okay, something's not working; we need to change the system."
Even after you start using an ADD-friendly system, you may need to change it. And that’s what it's all about. It's not that you put something into place and you have to stay so rigid to it. That won't suit ADD people at all. You have to be constantly looking and saying "What's working in my life; what's not working?" The things that are working--let them be. The things that aren't working, change the system.