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Live Out Loud

Although I'm currently out on maternity leave, I've taken the time to prepare some newsletters for you while I'm away! I thought this would be a great time to review The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD that I detail in my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick's Guide to Adult ADD, and in my new Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program.

 

ADD Management Skill #5: Live Out Loud

Adults with ADD often think that their differences and challenges are so awful that they don’t deserve happiness and success. And if that’s what you’ve been thinking, then I’m here to tell you that you’re wrong!

Living out loud is a fun skill to learn and practice, but it’s also a very important one. Because all your hard work learning to manage your ADD isn’t worth much if you don’t get to enjoy the fruits of your labor. There comes a point where you get to take a deep breath in your life, and stop trying so hard. You identify what’s important to you, and give yourself permission to focus on those things.

I know that you have dreams and goals in your life that you aren’t paying attention to. You’ve told yourself that there are more important things to worry about. Or you’ve played what I call the “when/then game,” in which you tell yourself, “WHEN I fix this, or WHEN I learn how to do that, THEN I’ll think about that.” “WHEN I get it together at work, THEN I’ll worry about spending more time with the kids.” Or “WHEN I get the whole house decluttered, THEN I’ll take that class and learn how to play the piano.”

The trouble is that the when/then game never ends. Something else always comes up and seems more important, and you never actually give yourself permission to focus on those things that you really want to focus on. But these are the things that you need to start thinking about in order to live out loud. You have to really get in touch with those dreams and goals, and stop telling yourself that they’re out of reach. Instead, think about how to put them within your reach.

The biggest obstacle is always fear. Adults with ADD often use fear as excuse not to work towards their dreams and goals. Just think about all the fears that have prevented you from really stepping out there.

It’s perfectly normal, when you’re working towards achieving new things, to have fear. It’s perfectly normal to worry that you won’t actually succeed. It’s perfectly normal to wonder what people might think of you. And you can absolutely take these fears into consideration when making your decisions about which goals to pursue. But don’t let these fears make your decisions for you, because fear will always stop you in your tracks.

Moving past these fears is going to require you to get comfortable being uncomfortable. It requires taking risks, and stretching your comfort zone. More often than not, you’ve got to be willing to endure some uncomfortable feelings or situations in order to achieve the things you want to achieve. The reward is seeing your goals and dreams come to life and feeling good about your accomplishments!

And sometimes you’ll take risks and they won’t pay off, because that’s life. And that’s okay. In fact, I think one thing that many adults with ADD really need to learn to accept is that failure is a part of life. We’re all human, and mistakes are to be expected. And if you learn from your mistakes, then they serve a purpose. If you look at those “failures” as feedback, then you learn really quickly what’s going to work and what isn’t, and you use that information to make decisions moving forward.

When you work to master the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD, you come to a turning point when you reach this skill of living out loud. It’s a great feeling to be actively working towards achieving your dreams and goals. Don't wait. Start living out loud now!  

Are you living out loud? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

How to Live Out Loud and Master All 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD

Are you STILL struggling with chronic overwhelm, self-doubt, poor time management, and other ADD-related challenges?

Let me show you exactly how to master The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD so that you can embrace your inner maverick and move forward in life!

If you’re like many of the adults with ADD that I hear from, then you’ve read my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick’s Guide to Adult ADD, and it really hit home with you.

You’d love to work with me one-on-one to dig into the concepts and strategies covered in the book but, unfortunately, private coaching isn’t an option for you right now.

Now there’s another option. I created a home study program that will coach you to:

• Embrace your inner maverick
• Break the cycle of chronic stress, overwhelm, and burnout
• Learn how to accept and work with your own ADD
• Focus on your strengths and think more positively
• Take control of your space, time, and tasks
• Give yourself permission to live out loud!

The Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program allows me to be your personal ADD coach from afar, and it’s the next best thing to working with me privately. It features 3 audio CDs, an 85+ page workbook, and a goal setting action guide. I walk you through each chapter in the book and show you exactly what it takes to build and apply each of the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD.

Life with adult ADD really doesn’t have to be so hard. You’re not stuck living a life of stress and disappointment. I’ve coached hundreds of adults to embrace their inner maverick and live happy and successful lives. You can absolutely take control over your ADD and turn things around! And I can help you do it with the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program.

 

Retail Price: $197 + S&H $177 with FREE Shipping in the US and Canada Save $29.95!

This home study coaching program is backed by a 90-day, 100% money-back guarantee!

Learn more here.

P.S. Don't put your dreams and goals on the back burner any longer. You deserve to start living out loud right now!

Take Control of Your Space and Time

Although I'm currently out on maternity leave, I've taken the time to prepare some newsletters for you while I'm away! I thought this would be a great time to review The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD that I detail in my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick's Guide to Adult ADD, and in my new Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program.

 

ADD Management Skill #4: Take Control of Your Space and Time

This skill is all about organization and time management, which happen to be two of the biggest challenges for adults with ADD. Part of the problem is that these are skills that just don’t come naturally to people with ADD. Many of us have to learn them later in life, as adults, and often only after a lack of organization and a lack of time management have caused major problems.

Here’s something that you may not know or you may not have ever realized. Organization and time management are all about one thing: planning. And this is where adults with ADD get tripped up.

Pay attention to the people in your life who don’t have ADD, and see how they go about organizing a space, managing their schedule, or working on a new project. You’ll notice that people without ADD almost always start with a plan. It’s just something they do! It’s a part of the process.

Then pay attention to how you approach the same kind of situation. Without the proper skills and resources, we almost never start with a plan! It’s a completely foreign idea to many of us! Instead, adults with ADD like to jump right into the project head first. And sometimes that works, especially if there is an impending deadline or tremendous pressure to get something done. But, more often than not, jumping into a project without a plan just leads to overwhelm. You see all the things that need to be done, and you don’t know where to start. So you become paralyzed, you get frustrated, you procrastinate. And, of course, you feel bad about yourself! But those feelings and those challenges can all be avoided by making a plan in advance.

Your plan is like your roadmap. Imagine that you're going on vacation. You're driving to a different state that's a few hours away. Would you get in the car and start driving without a map, or directions, or a GPS? In theory, you could get on the highway and follow the road signs, but your trip would be pretty stressful, and you'd probably take a lot of wrong turns!

It's much easier to get to your destination when you're being guided, and you have a tool that instructs you on where to go next. This is what planning is all about. Your plan is the roadmap that tells you were to go next. It eliminates the frustration that comes with not knowing where to start or not knowing what to do next. When you create a plan, you take control over the situation.

There are two keys to creating a plan successfully:

1. You must plan the time to plan. Understand that creating your plan is just one step in the process of getting the project done. It’s a step that can’t be skipped.
2. Create your plan when you’re calm and centered, and not when you’re in the middle of the project or in the middle of the chaos. You never want to walk into a cluttered space and make your plan there, and you never want to try and plan your day in the middle of the action. Instead, step back from all your tasks and to-dos and plan out how you’re going to tackle them in advance.

I know that organization and time management aren’t easy, and that they’ve probably caused you a lot of stress and frustration in the past. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do it. Give yourself credit, and trust that you can do it. You CAN take control of your space and time. Start with a plan.

Do you want to learn more about taking control of your space and time?

Do you need some help learning how to effectively plan for organization and time management?

There's an entire module in the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program dedicated to this ADD management skill! Find out more here.

P.S. Please feel free to share your thoughts about this ADD management skill in the comments below!

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Life With Adult ADD Really Doesn’t Have To Be So Hard!

Are you STILL struggling with chronic overwhelm, self-doubt, poor time management, and other ADD-related challenges?

Let me show you exactly how to master The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD so that you can embrace your inner maverick and move forward in life!

If you’re like many of the adults with ADD that I hear from, then you’ve read my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick’s Guide to Adult ADD, and it really hit home with you. You’d love to work with me one-on-one to dig into the concepts and strategies covered in the book but, unfortunately, private coaching isn’t an option for you right now.

Now there’s another option. I created a home study program that will coach you to:

• Embrace your inner maverick
• Break the cycle of chronic stress, overwhelm, and burnout
• Learn how to accept and work with your own ADD
• Focus on your strengths and think more positively
• Take control of your space, time, and tasks
• Give yourself permission to live out loud!

 

Retail Price: $197 + S&H $147 with FREE Shipping in the US and Canada Save $59.95!

This introductory price is available to the first 50 people who order the home study program. (Over 75% of the programs available at this price have already been sold.) Offer expires March 1, 2011, or when the first 50 orders are placed. Comes with a 90-day, 100% money-back guarantee!

Learn more here.

 

I’ve been coaching adults with ADD—from CEOs to stay-at-home parents—for over 8 years. I’m one of the few ADD coaches who’s been designated a ‘Senior Certified AD/HD Coach.’ I’ve been featured on The Today Show, in The New York Times, and various other media outlets. I’m also the Director of the Virtual AD/HD Conference, a major industry event. And I’m an adult who lives and thrives with ADD. When it comes to adult ADD, I know my stuff.

The Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program allows me to be your personal ADD coach from afar, and it’s the next best thing to working with me privately. It features 3 audio CDs, an 85+ page workbook, and a goal setting action guide. I walk you through each chapter in the book and show you exactly what it takes to build and apply each of the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD.

I’ve very carefully broken down the concepts and strategies in the book, and presented them to you in the same ways that I present them to my private clients. I specifically call out for you:

• The themes of each chapter that I continually remind clients of.
• The most important points of each chapter that I want you to remember. 
• Thought-provoking journaling exercises that I commonly assign to clients.
• Probing coaching questions that I ask clients during sessions.
• Concrete action steps that that I commonly assign to clients when they are ready to make changes and move forward.

Life with adult ADD really doesn’t have to be so hard. You’re not stuck living a life of stress and disappointment. I’ve coached hundreds of adults to embrace their inner maverick and live happy and successful lives. You can absolutely take control over your ADD and turn things around! And I can help you do it with the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program.

By the way, I stand behind this program all the way. That’s why I offer a 90-day, money-back guarantee. Try the program for 90 days. If it’s not helping or not what you wanted, then simply return it to us in reusable condition for a full refund. It’s that simple.

 

Retail Price: $197 + S&H $147 with FREE Shipping in the US and Canada Save $59.95!

This introductory price is available to the first 50 people who order the home study program. (Over 75% of the programs available at this price have already been sold.) Offer expires March 1, 2011, or when the first 50 orders are placed. Comes with a 90-day, 100% money-back guarantee!

Learn more here.

 

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ADDjust Your Attitude

Although I'm currently out on maternity leave, I've taken the time to prepare some newsletters for you while I'm away! I thought this would be a great time to review The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD that I detail in my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick's Guide to Adult ADD, and in my new Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program.

 

ADD Management Skill #3: ADDjust Your Attitude

I hate to say it, but the vast majority of adults with ADD who I come across are in need of an attitude adjustment. That’s because many adults with ADD go through their lives as negative thinkers with low self-esteem.

We can understand why this happens, after everything we’ve talked about in the previous newsletters reviewing the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD. When you go through life feeling chronically overwhelmed and judging yourself for your differences, it makes sense that you might develop a bad attitude as a result. But that bad attitude has to change if you want to learn how to manage your ADD and move on with your life.

Adjusting your attitude involves two things:

1. Improving your self-esteem.
2. Developing a positive outlook on life.

Let’s start with self-esteem. Adults with ADD have a bad habit of focusing on what’s wrong. We focus on differences that we think are bad, we focus on challenges, we focus on mistakes, and we get wrapped up in them. We spend so much time focusing on the things we think we need to fix that there’s no time left over to work on developing the things that are already working!

No one ever gets ahead in life by focusing on their weaknesses. Think about it: the only way to get ahead in life is to focus on your strengths – your talents, your skills, your passions, the things you do well – and to get even better at them.

And if you waste all your time trying to get good at the things you’re not naturally good at, then there’s no time to really hone and polish the skills and strengths and talents that you do have. Instead, what happens is that you spend your time feeling bad about yourself. Because the only things you’re thinking about are the ways in which you feel like you don’t measure up. And that’s not good for anyone’s self-esteem.

The next piece of the attitude adjustment puzzle is about your outlook on life. For all the reasons we’ve talked about so far, it’s easy for an adult with ADD to become a negative thinker. Negative thinking WILL hold you back in life. You won’t see the opportunities that present themselves when you’re focused on the bad stuff. There are actually some simple and easy things you can take to adopt a more positive attitude immediately. In fact, self-care alone can help you be a more positive thinker!

When you’re stressed or worried, your breathing becomes shallow, your heart rate increases, and your muscles tense up. Your mind stresses your body. And it’s very hard to be positive when your body is tense and uptight! However, when you’re calm and relaxed, your breathing becomes deeper, your heart rate decreases, and your muscles relax. In this calm and relaxed state, it’s much easier to think clearly and see a more positive side to things. So you can become a more positive thinker just by virtue of relaxation and self-care alone!

The bottom line is that it’s much easier to manage your ADD when you have a healthy self-esteem and a positive outlook on life. And, in turn, life becomes much easier and more enjoyable.

Do you have a healthy self-esteem? Do you consider yourself a positive thinker? How could better self-esteem and a more positive attitude help move you forward in life? Please share your thoughts with other readers in the comments below!

 

How to Master the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD

Are you STILL struggling with chronic overwhelm, self-doubt, poor time management, and other ADD-related challenges?

Let me show you exactly how to master The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD so that you can embrace your inner maverick and move forward in life!

If you’re like many of the adults with ADD that I hear from, then you’ve read my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick’s Guide to Adult ADD, and it really hit home with you.

You’d love to work with me one-on-one to dig into the concepts and strategies covered in the book but, unfortunately, private coaching isn’t an option for you right now.

Now there’s another option. I created a home study program that will coach you to:

• Embrace your inner maverick
• Break the cycle of chronic stress, overwhelm, and burnout
• Learn how to accept and work with your own ADD
• Focus on your strengths and think more positively
• Take control of your space, time, and tasks
• Give yourself permission to live out loud!

The Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program allows me to be your personal ADD coach from afar, and it’s the next best thing to working with me privately. It features 3 audio CDs, an 85+ page workbook, and a goal setting action guide. I walk you through each chapter in the book and show you exactly what it takes to build and apply each of the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD.

Life with adult ADD really doesn’t have to be so hard. You’re not stuck living a life of stress and disappointment. I’ve coached hundreds of adults to embrace their inner maverick and live happy and successful lives. You can absolutely take control over your ADD and turn things around! And I can help you do it with the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program.

Retail Price: $197 + S&H $147 with FREE Shipping in the US and Canada Save $59.95!

This introductory price is available to the first 50 people who order the home study program. (Over half available at this price have already been sold.) Offer expires March 1, 2011, or when the first 50 orders are placed. Comes with a 90-day, 100% money-back guarantee!

Learn more here.

Work With Your ADD

Although I'm currently out on maternity leave, I've taken the time to prepare some newsletters for you while I'm away! I thought this would be a great time to review The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD that I detail in my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick's Guide to Adult ADD, and in my new Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program.

 

ADD Management Skill #2: Work With Your ADD

The biggest mistake that I see adults with ADD make is that they try to do things just like everyone else. But when you’re wired differently than the vast majority of the people around you, trying to be like everyone else just doesn’t work.

The people around you - your friends, your coworkers, and certainly many members of your family - go through their lives and do things a certain way. They have certain systems they follow to make their lives easier. They may have their desk organized a certain way, and they may go food shopping twice a week, or wash the dishes right after dinner every night.

And these systems are definitely a good thing - when the person who’s following them creates them based on what will make their life easier. But you can’t be successful trying to emulate other people’s systems. You have to create your own systems, taking into account your own personality and your own strengths and challenges. And you most certainly have to take into account your own ADD! Unfortunately, this is where a lot of adults with ADD get tripped up.

As a person with ADD, you may need to have your desk organized completely differently, in a way that makes sense only to you. And you may have to delegate the food shopping trips, or wash the dishes in the morning, instead of the evening. It’s all individual, and what matters is what makes life easiest for YOU!

The problem is that, in our society, we’re often taught that different equals bad. In your early life, you were probably made aware of your differences when the people around you pointed them out.

• Your parents may have called you lazy because you had no interest in cleaning your room. (I know I got that one!)
• Your teachers may have told you that you didn’t apply yourself because you daydreamed in class.
• Your friends may have commented that you never paid attention to the rules of the game.

But these behaviors in and of themselves aren’t bad, they’re just different than those of most other kids. And over time, you start to internalize all these differences as criticisms of who you are and how you naturally do things.

Then, in adulthood, things suddenly become worse because YOU become the one who points out those differences yourself. You see others around you going about their lives in ways that are foreign to you, and you convince yourself that they know something you don’t. You convince yourself that you don’t measure up. And you judge yourself, probably VERY HARSHLY, for not being like everyone else.

As long as you continue to judge yourself for your differences, you’re working against your ADD. You have to embrace who you are as a whole person, challenges and differences included, if you want to find the systems and solutions that are going to make your life easier. When you can do that, you can work WITH your ADD, not against it.

How do you work with your ADD? Please share your thoughts with other readers in the comments below!

 

How to Master the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD

Are you STILL struggling with chronic overwhelm, self-doubt, poor time management, and other ADD-related challenges?

Let me show you exactly how to master The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD so that you can embrace your inner maverick and move forward in life!

If you’re like many of the adults with ADD that I hear from, then you’ve read my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick’s Guide to Adult ADD, and it really hit home with you.

You’d love to work with me one-on-one to dig into the concepts and strategies covered in the book but, unfortunately, private coaching isn’t an option for you right now.

Now there’s another option. I created a home study program that will coach you to:

• Embrace your inner maverick
• Break the cycle of chronic stress, overwhelm, and burnout
• Learn how to accept and work with your own ADD
• Focus on your strengths and think more positively
• Take control of your space, time, and tasks
• Give yourself permission to live out loud!

The Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program allows me to be your personal ADD coach from afar, and it’s the next best thing to working with me privately. It features 3 audio CDs, an 85+ page workbook, and a goal setting action guide. I walk you through each chapter in the book and show you exactly what it takes to build and apply each of the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD.

Life with adult ADD really doesn’t have to be so hard. You’re not stuck living a life of stress and disappointment. I’ve coached hundreds of adults to embrace their inner maverick and live happy and successful lives. You can absolutely take control over your ADD and turn things around! And I can help you do it with the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program.

Retail Price: $197 + S&H $147 with FREE Shipping in the US and Canada Save $59.95!

This introductory price is available to the first 50 people who order the home study program. (Over half available at this price have already been sold.) Offer expires March 1, 2011, or when the first 50 orders are placed. Comes with a 90-day, 100% money-back guarantee!

Learn more here.

Break the Cycle of Overwhelm

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Although I'm currently out on maternity leave, I've taken the time to prepare some blog posts for you while I'm away! I thought this would be a great time to review The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD that I detail in my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick's Guide to Adult ADD, and in my new Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program. Please feel free to check my blog or join us on Facebook to get the birth announcement when our new arrival makes her debut!

 

ADD Management Skill #1: Break the Cycle of Overwhelm

ADD presents itself differently in everyone who has it. But one consistent factor that I’ve noticed in my work as a coach is that adults with ADD are chronically overwhelmed with everyday life. You wake up feeling like you’re behind on life, and you spend your whole day either trying to catch up, or feeling guilty because you’re not doing enough to catch up. By the end of the night you feel even further behind than you were when you started! Then you go to bed and wake up just to do it all over again.

Eventually, the overwhelm catches up to you, and you burn out. Then you go through a period—a day, two days, or even a week—when your brain (and maybe your body) just feels shut down and you can’t seem to accomplish anything. You repeat this cycle of overwhelm and burnout over and over again and one thing is clear: YOU ARE STRESSED OUT!

The biggest problem here is that stress makes ADD worse. The good news, though, is that the more you control your stress, the easier it is to manage your ADD. I call this “The Golden Rule of ADD Management” and it’s quite simply this: Stress management = ADD management.

Breaking the cycle of overwhelm is all about learning how to manage your stress. And there are two important things to focus on in order to do that:

1. You have to learn to slow down.
2. You have to practice excellent self-care.

I know that the idea of slowing down is counter intuitive when it feels like you’re running behind on life. But I’m sure you know that you’re just not as effective or productive in the face of chaos. When you feel speedy—either physically speedy or mentally speedy—that’s when you make mistakes.

Learning to slow on a regular basis is exactly what will help you get to a place of being calm, centered, and relaxed. And when you’re calm, centered, and relaxed, you’re in a much better position to tackle all the things on your to-do list, and you do better work to boot.

The next thing to focus on when learning to break the cycle of overwhelm is practicing excellent self-care. Self-care is about making sure that you’re functioning optimally before you try to take care of those around you. When you’re taking care of yourself, and you feel happy and fulfilled, you have so much more to give to those around you than when you feel overwhelmed or burnt out! Everyone benefits when you take good care of yourself.

Breaking the cycle of overwhelm is not an easy skill to master. It starts with small steps, like allowing yourself time to relax and unwind every day, and paying better attention to self-care basics like sleep and nutrition. Small changes can make a big difference when it comes to building this skill. The most important thing to keep in mind is that stress management = ADD management. The more you do to manage your stress, the easier it becomes to manage your ADD.

How do you manage your stress? Do you struggle with chronic overwhelm? Please share your thoughts with other readers in the comments below!

How to Master the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD

Are you STILL struggling with chronic overwhelm, self-doubt, poor time management, and other ADD-related challenges?

Let me show you exactly how to master The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD so that you can embrace your inner maverick and move forward in life!

If you’re like many of the adults with ADD that I hear from, then you’ve read my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick’s Guide to Adult ADD, and it really hit home with you.

You’d love to work with me one-on-one to dig into the concepts and strategies covered in the book but, unfortunately, private coaching isn’t an option for you right now.

Now there’s another option. I created a home study program that will coach you to:

• Embrace your inner maverick
• Break the cycle of chronic stress, overwhelm, and burnout
• Learn how to accept and work with your own ADD
• Focus on your strengths and think more positively
• Take control of your space, time, and tasks
• Give yourself permission to live out loud!

The Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program allows me to be your personal ADD coach from afar, and it’s the next best thing to working with me privately. It features 3 audio CDs, an 85+ page workbook, and a goal setting action guide. I walk you through each chapter in the book and show you exactly what it takes to build and apply each of the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD.

Life with adult ADD really doesn’t have to be so hard. You’re not stuck living a life of stress and disappointment. I’ve coached hundreds of adults to embrace their inner maverick and live happy and successful lives. You can absolutely take control over your ADD and turn things around! And I can help you do it with the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program.

Retail Price: $197 + S&H $147 with FREE Shipping in the US and Canada Save $59.95!

This introductory price is available to the first 50 people who order the home study program. (Over half available at this price have already been sold.) Offer expires March 1, 2011, or when the first 50 orders are placed. Comes with a 90-day, 100% money-back guarantee!

Learn more here.

P.S. Remember: Stress Management = ADD Management!

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Are you STILL struggling with chronic overwhelm, self-doubt, poor time management, and other ADD-related challenges?

Let me show you exactly how to master The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD so that you can embrace your inner maverick and move forward in life!

If you’re like many of the adults with ADD that I hear from, then you’ve read my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick’s Guide to Adult ADD, and it really hit home with you.

You’d love to work with me one-on-one to dig into the concepts and strategies covered in the book but, unfortunately, private coaching isn’t an option for you right now.

Now there’s another option. I created a home study program that will coach you to:

• Embrace your inner maverick
• Break the cycle of chronic stress, overwhelm, and burnout
• Learn how to accept and work with your own ADD
• Focus on your strengths and think more positively
• Take control of your space, time, and tasks
• Give yourself permission to live out loud!

Retail Price: $197 + S&H $147 with FREE Shipping in the US and Canada Save $59.95!

I’ve been coaching adults with ADD—from CEOs to stay-at-home parents—for over 8 years. I’m one of the few ADD coaches who’s been designated a ‘Senior Certified AD/HD Coach.’ I’ve been featured on The Today Show, in The New York Times, and various other media outlets. I’m also the Director of the Virtual AD/HD Conference, a major industry event. And I’m an adult who lives and thrives with ADD. When it comes to adult ADD, I know my stuff.

The Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program allows me to be your personal ADD coach from afar, and it’s the next best thing to working with me privately. It features 3 audio CDs, a 85+ page workbook, and a goal setting action guide. I walk you through each chapter in the book and show you exactly what it takes to build and apply each of the 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD.

I’ve very carefully broken down the concepts and strategies in the book, and presented them to you in the same ways that I present them to my private clients. I specifically call out for you:

• The themes of each chapter that I continually remind clients of.
• The most important points of each chapter that I want you to remember. 
• Thought-provoking journaling exercises that I commonly assign to clients.
• Probing coaching questions that I ask clients during sessions.
• Concrete action steps that that I commonly assign to clients when they are ready to make changes and move forward.

Life with adult ADD really doesn’t have to be so hard. You’re not stuck living a life of stress and disappointment. I’ve coached hundreds of adults to embrace their inner maverick and live happy and successful lives. You can absolutely take control over your ADD and turn things around! And I can help you do it with the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program.

By the way, I stand behind this program all the way. That’s why I offer a 90-day, money-back guarantee. Try the program for 90 days. If it’s not helping or not what you wanted, then simply return it to us in reusable condition for a full refund. It’s that simple.

There are only 50 Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Programs available at this introductory discount, and only for a limited time. If you’d like to take advantage of this discount, then order your coaching program now!

Retail Price: $197 + S&H $147 with FREE Shipping in the US and Canada Save $59.95!

This introductory price is available to the first 50 people who order the home study program. Offer expires March 1, 2011, or when the first 50 orders are placed. Programs ship in mid January, 2011. Comes with a 90-day, 100% money-back guarantee!

Learn more here.

Let me be your personal ADD coach and show you how to master The 5 Essential Skills for Managing Adult ADD so that you can embrace your inner maverick and move forward in life!

Have You Read Odd One Out: The Maverick's Guide to Adult ADD?

If you haven't read my book, Odd One Out: The Maverick's Guide to Adult ADD, do pick it up for more on how to break the cycle of overwhelm, and how to live happily and successfully with adult AD/HD.

And if you have already read it, then you might be interested in the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program that debuts next month.

 

Sign up here to be notified about the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program and take advantage of deeply discounted pre-order prices!

 

I hear from a lot of people who would love to work with me as their personal AD/HD coach, but aren't able to for whatever reason.

So I've created this home study program, with 3 audio CDs and a 50+ page workbook (plus some other goodies in development) so that I can be your personal AD/HD coach from afar.

The materials are designed to compliment the book and will help you to take action and master "The 5 Essential Skills for Adult ADD."

It's the next best thing to working with me one-on-one, and an affordable option to boot!

Next week, we'll begin accepting pre-orders for the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program at a very deep discount. The programs will be ready to ship in January. If you'd like to be notified when the pre-order is announced, please sign up below. And do note that the deeply discounted pre-order price will ONLY be available to those on the notification list!

Sign up here to be notified about the Odd One Out Home Study Coaching Program and take advantage of deeply discounted pre-order prices!

This is the last call for the pre-order list, so please sign up today if you want to be notified! (Of course, there's no obligation to order the program. This sign up is just for the notification list!)

Emergency ADD Management

What a crazy 5 days I've had! The snowstorms here in the Northeast really did me in and put my ADD management skills to the test! I'll tell you all about it in just a minute, but first I need to tell you that...

Because our offices were closed for the last few days due to power outages, we had to extend the Early Bird Discount deadline on the Odd One Out Coaching Program.

This means that you can still take advantage of the $100 savings when you register by 5pm EST tomorrow, Wednesday March 3rd!

Register or get more info at http://www.ADDmanagement.com/coaching/oddoneoutprogram.html

Now back to our story...

Last week the Northeast region of the US experienced a couple of major snowstorms that were even worse than expected. In less than 2 days, we got about 2 feet of snow. And that was in addition to the 9 inches we had from a previous storm!

Here in the Hudson Valley of New York State, it started snowing on Wednesday and we lost our power on Thursday night. I'll spare you all the boring details and just give you the important pieces:

• We were without power, heat, and running water for about 4 days.
• Only one nearby family member had power, and his house was packed with the rest of the power-less family, and all our dogs--some of whom don't get along. Come to think of it, some of the family members don't really get along, either!
• We had to stay at a hotel--with our dogs--for a couple of nights. This in and of itself was extremely stressful. Trixie is mostly blind and doesn't do well in new environments, while Rascal barks (and I mean BARKS) at everything!
• We had no choice but to close down the ADD Management Group while we were without power, which means that our personal income for the month took a hit.

(The above picture is Rascal [left] and Trixie [right] experiencing their first hotel stay!)

While communicating with clients on my BlackBerry, one client smartly asked, "What are you doing to maintain self-care throughout this experience?" How did she know I was secretly planning to write a newsletter on that very topic?

It's true--I'm always talking about how important it is for adults with ADD to make self-care a priority. That's because stress management is ADD management. The more stressed out you are, the more your ADD will challenge you.

And I fully admit that the stress and anxiety had me feeling close to the edge. I'm pretty good in emergency situations, but when the emergency situation becomes a prolonged event, I start to lose it.

For people with ADD, situations like these are extremely difficult to deal with. The main stressor, I think, is that we simply have no control over what is happening around us. It feels like chaos.

Despite my best efforts, I found myself feeling angry, unable to sleep at night, fighting with a family member, and stressing out about everything.

Here's what I did, to the best of my ability, to maintain self-care. This is also what I suggest you do the next time you find yourself dealing with an emergency:

1. Make self-care a top-of-the-list priority.

Make sure you get a good night's sleep. This is probably the most important thing during times of stress, as your body and brain get repaired and reset during sleep.

Eat only high-quality fuel. You need good, healthy food to keep you going when times are tough.

2. Let go of the stress.

Brainstorm an action plan to get clear about what you can control in the situation. But don't stress or worry about the things you have no control over because it won't do any good whatsoever.

Remember to practice mindfulness by staying in the present moment. Thoughts about the past and the future are often stressful, but the present moment rarely is.

3. Keep your brain busy.

This one won't apply to every emergency situation, but it certainly applied to mine! Boredom is like torture to the ADD brain, and there were many times over the last 5 days where I found myself freezing cold and bored out of my mind.

Challenge your brain to focus on something interesting and useful, instead of brooding on the problem. For me, this meant bundling up and digging in to some organizing projects, reading, and playing with my dogs.

I'm happy to tell you that we got our power back yesterday, and got our Internet connection back just this morning. I couldn't be happier to be back to my normal structure and routines. There's nothing like structure to comfort the ADD brain!

Now that the storms have passed, things are almost back to normal. And my loss is your gain!

As I mentioned before, we were forced to extend the Early Bird Discount deadline on the Odd One Out Coaching Program because we had no way to access the shopping cart and change the prices!

So...

Don't Miss Your Absolute Last Chance to Save $100 on the Odd One Out Coaching Program!

You have one last (and unexpected) chance to join us and save some money! Register by 5pm EST tomorrow, March 3rd, and save $100 on your enrollment. http://www.ADDmanagement.com/coaching/oddoneoutprogram.html

I also wanted to note that there are just a few spaces left in the Advanced Program, so don't delay on registering if you're wanting to join the program option that includes personalized coaching with me.

For those of you who aren't familiar, the Odd One Out Coaching Program begins on March 17th. This is a special program--based on my book Odd One Out, but much richer and more personal--that I host no more than once a year. In it, I work with a small group of ADDers who are ready to unleash their inner maverick. Maybe you're one of them?

In this interactive, 6-week coaching program that begins on the 17th, I'll teach you how to:

   1. Stop trying to fit in and start being true to yourself
   2. Break the cycle of overwhelm
   3. Work with your ADD
   4. Adjust your attitude for success
   5. Take control of your space and time
   6. Live out loud
   7. Unleash Your Inner Maverick, Embrace Your ADD as a Gift, and Enjoy Your Life!

Everyone in the program gets:

• Six, 90-minute, interactive teleclasses
• Access to the members-only website with downloadable notes, worksheets, and resources
• Personal study guides for each program module
• Downloadable recordings of all the teleclasses
• And if you register for the Advanced Program option, you'll also get weekly, personal email coaching with me, and private 1-on-1 coaching time with me (which is in short supply these days!)

==> *Take Advantage of the Early Bird Discount: Save $100 when you register before 5pm EST on Wednesday March 3rd.

http://www.addmanagement.com/coaching/oddoneoutprogram.html

I'm really looking forward to working with a small group of ADDers who are ready to unleash their inner mavericks! Let's just hope there are no more snowstorms to get in the way! ;-)

Have a great week, and stay warm!

P.S. How do you manage your ADD in emergency situations? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

And don't miss the Early Bird Discount extension for the Odd One Out Coaching Program! You can save $100 if you register before 5pm EST tomorrow, March 3rd!
http://www.addmanagement.com/coaching/oddoneoutprogram.html

The Maverick Approach to ADD Management: BREAK the Rules

I love this image, take a quick look...

I think this is a great representation of how a lot of adults with ADD feel: tired, downtrodden, and hopeless. And for many of us, the basis of these negative feelings is an overwhelming desire to fit in, follow "the rules," and be just like everyone else.

Bleh! Just thinking about that makes me want to go back to bed. So let me tell you a brief story...

Before my book was published in 2007, I brainstormed titles and subtitles with my Mastermind Group of coaches. The title Odd One Out: The Maverick's Guide to Adult ADD was born out of that meeting.

A week later, I came up with the subtitle: How to Be Happy and Successful by Breaking the Rules. I loved it! It was a fantastic summary of my personal coaching philosophy. I sent it around to some close friends and colleagues and asked for feedback.

A few people liked it a lot, but a couple of people emailed me with the same concern: they suggested I use the subtitle "How to Be Happy and Successful by Making Your Own Rules," instead of "...by Breaking the Rules."

Breaking the rules seemed a little too strong, they said. And really it means the same thing in the end, doesn't it?

I thanked everyone for their feedback, and chose NOT to change the subtitle. Here's why: Mavericks aren't content to just make new rules. Mavericks don't even like rules. And we tend to not like the people who make the rules much, either.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not encouraging anyone to indulge in a crime spree. What I am suggesting, however, is that there are a number of social rules and constraints that many ADDers struggle to adhere to, and that these rules do, in fact, need to be broken.

Think about all the rules that you feel pressured to follow, like:

• You must put money before happiness when it comes to your job or career
• You must sit perfectly still in a meeting or classroom so as not to disrupt others
• You must have a super-clean houses if you have guests over
• You must put everything away in a neat and tidy place if you want to be organized
• You must put the needs of your family and friends before your own needs
• You must be productive throughout the entire day
• And worst of all - you must do everything in your power to hide your ADD from everyone around you

I call BS on all these rules, and the others like them!

Maverick ADDers actually function better with guidelines instead of rules. When we create structure for ourselves, it needs to flexible, not rigid.

The maverick approach to ADD management requires that you take a good, hard look at the rules you're pressuring yourself to follow, and decide which ones need to be broken.

When you embrace the maverick within and make a conscious decision to break the rules that have been holding you back, you give yourself permission to be happy and successful according to your own guidelines. You move beyond your challenges, and into your authentic self.

In this regard, the maverick approach to ADD management is easier than you might think. Following the rules can be painful... but breaking them can set you free.