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July 2012

My Desired Outcome for 2 Important Events Tonight

Hey y'all, excited here about 2 events taking place tonight (they'll be archived if you've landed here after the date), and I want you to know my desired outcome as well.


At 8pm EST (that's 2pm in Hawaii!)I'll be sharing with Attention Talk Radio co-hosts Jeff Copper and Kirsten Miliken"How to Determine What's Important"



And then at 9pm EST (that's 7pm in Denver!)I'm the guest of ADD Coach Linda Roggli on the ADDA (Attention Deficit Disorder Association) webinar.

The "Conscious Pause" - Antidote to Impulsivity







Remember how we all laughed a couple weeks ago when two major networks, eager to report the Supreme Court's decision regarding health care reform, got it completely wrong?  We could just imagine some eager beaver sitting at the 'puter impulsively hitting the wrong button.

Equally funny/not-funny (because it can have real social and health and financial consequences) are the ways in whichyou and Iact impulsively.

This past Sunday New York Times' "Gray Matter" column featured

How to Determine What's Really Important

Students and adults with ADHD may be impulsive and distractible, and may report that they can lose hours over the course of a day.  So how do spouses, parents, and ADD coaches help these individuals determine what is important and stay on task?  

By answering just two important questions. 

What are the 2 qusestions?  Join me in thisAttention Talk Radio podcastwith hostJeff Copperand co-hostKirsten Milliken, and find out!  Jeff and Kirsten will be engaging me in conversation around these two very powerful questions, helping listeners put them in perspective, and learn how we determine what is

If you can't find your keys, then clean up the house.

In aJune postingat her Happiness-Project blog, Gretchen Rubin shares a tip she credits to Samantha Ettus, author of "100 Ways to Make Life More Efficient."

Anyone might use this tip successfully, but I'm sharing it here with particular thought of those who work with ADD Adults.  Ettus' book includes wisdom from lost-objects expertMichael Solomon, who suggests that lost items are usually somewhere in the vicinity of where they should be (and not hanging in a tree as in the photo above).

ADHD is not "either/or"...is it?

A reader of a recentblog postat PsychologyToday offers this comment about formal ADHD diagnosis:

The ability to pay attention is a sliding scale and not binary. Unlike pregnancy, you can be more-or-less ADHD depending on how you live your life.For example, someone who might have a little difficulty focusing can decrease their ADHD potential by meditating.

This is such a good point!  Because the DSM is a medical-model approach to mental health and developmental disorders it makes use of an "either/or" (binary) approach to diagnosis.