4 Weeks To An Organized Life With AD/HD

, for example, if you want a night out without the kids, find the sitter now. If you want to see a movie, decide on the one you will see now. If you want to buy something for yourself, like a new CD, a pair of shoes, Godiva chocolates, or a good bottle of wine, make sure that you have set aside the time at the end of the week to go right out and get your reward.

With that picture in mind, create your space. To help maintain your focus:

Spend no more than a total of one hour.

Divide that hour into twenty-minute segments.

Use a timer to stop yourself in order to take a break. (Take a short walk, have a cup of tea, or just do something else entirely.)

You will need only a few things:

A little bit of space.

A little bit of time.

A little bit of help

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit

someone you don’t respect can’t get you to do much of anything.

Professional organizers always say that to organize your things, everything must have a “home.”

same need to slow your thinking applies to planning and setting a goal for accomplishing any particular task. Before you start a task, make sure you have a vivid image in your mind of what you plan to accomplish. Be sure that the image you create includes the wonderful feeling you will have when you have accomplished your goal. Feel the glow and the satisfaction you will have on an emotional level. You should do this in a slow, relaxed manner, as you do with all of your active visualizations. This is the part of the activity in which it is most important that you slow down your natural rapid-fire thinking.

Slowing down is important when you are taking in information. This is the situation in which you must make a visual image in your mind as you are gathering information from any source in order to store and thus retain that information

first is to learn to identify when that skill is useful and when it is not. The second is to use your visual skills to clarify your goals before you start.

he same mental processes that lead to rapid-fire thinking can be harnessed to lead to rapid-fire action. What you need to make that work is to have confidence in this ability, and then use that knowledge to gain control of your overall plan and goal. T