If you're and adult diagnosed with Attention Deficit
Disorder (ADD), you likely become overwhelmed when dealing
with the day-to-day tasks of every-day living. This can
result in feelings of 'lack of achievement' in terms of
those things that are important in your life and conjures
up frustration that you are just not coping. In turn, this
causes stress which results in additional frustration . . .
after all, stress is caused by those things you don't
achieve, not the things you do achieve. Your entire day is
on turbo-charge as you constantly attempt to 'catch-up' AND
this leaves you feeling disorganized, frustrated and
discontent. Do you recognize any of these feelings?
You'll be pleased to know there are some valuable
strategies for dealing with and overcoming these feelings
of helplessness.
Here are 8 important strategies for dealing with ADD:
1. Slow Down - You often live life on hyper drive, both
mentally and physically. While this strategy requires
discipline, it's essential that you force yourself to SLOW
DOWN. When you experience those feeling of being out of
control, tell yourself to STOP, think about what's
happening and SLOW DOWN. It is possible!
2. Take Special Care Of You - You most likely have a
tendency to put yourself last. You need to start to take
very special care of yourself and think about what makes
you feel good. After all, if you feel good, you are in a
much better position to take care of others. It's a good
idea to write down those things that you like to do and the
people you enjoy doing them with.
3. Know Your Own ADD - ADD takes many forms and affects us
all in many diverse ways. You cannot effectively manage
ADD without a high level of awareness of the particular
manner in which it impacts your life and the life of those
you care about. Become aware of your specific behaviors .
. . being aware is 50 percent of the battle in managing ADD.
4. Use Your Learning and Processing Methods - This strategy
follows on from the previous one. Once you develop an
awareness of specific behaviors, identify the ways in which
you concentrate and learn. Identify those things you are
passionate about because they are the things you will find
easier to develop. Once you have established what works
for you, both your personal and professional lives will
become much simpler.
5. Concentrate on Your Strengths - Everybody has 'positive
attributes': strengths, skills, knowledge, expertise and
aptitude. Increasing the time you spend and the effort you
make on these 'positives' will increase both your sense of
self-worth and your contentment. Positive energy attracts
positives!
6. Become an Optimist - It's easy to focus on the negative
aspects of ADD. However you MUST constantly force yourself
to focus on the good things about yourself. If you believe
in the natural 'cause and affect' principle, you will
require no convincing that when you focus on the positives,
you attract positives. Positives energize you and people
love being around positive people - it's all part of the
'law of attraction'.
7. Plan the Time to Plan - Set aside some time once a week
to plan out the week ahead. Start off by identifying
what's great in your life and how you can improve those
tings. Then think about those things that annoy you and
how you can (at least) minimize their impact on you. Write
these things down and establish a quick plan of a few
things you are going to commit to doing over the next seven
days.
8. Take Challenges - This does necessarily mean speed-boat
racing or skydiving! It suggests stepping out of your
comfort zone and doing things that may be a little
uncomfortable. Examples might include requesting that
pay-rise, joining a gym, or signing up for that course
you've been thinking about for years. If you don't take
the challenge, you wont get the return.
While there are many challenges to those of us who have
been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, we tend to ignore the
positives and the opportunities we have to overcome
adversity. While we have identified 8 strategies for
dealing with ADD, we are certain there are many more. When
all is said and done, it all gets down to attitude AND
attitude is a direct result of how you choose to think.
It's your choice!
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Garry Macdonald & Kieran Smyth have established a website
providing little known information about attention deficit
disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD). To learn the insider secrets about ADD or ADHD, go
to http://www.adhdsecretsuncovered.com .
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