Great Book on ADD Organization | ADHD Information

I am just finishing a book titled "ADD Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life" by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau. It is geared to adults with ADD (of which I am one). But the concepts also apply well to kids.

The point is that conventional organizational skills and strategies simply do not work well with the ADDer.

I highly recommend it!

Thanks for that tip!  I REALLY could use some good tips. 

I've also heard that there is a book called "Organizing for the creative person" is supposed to be excellent.  Haven't read it myself, but it's supposed to be good for ADD people as well with "unconventional" organizing tips.

 

I'll have to try to get my hands on it! If I can remember to go to the library and then what I went there for!

 

barb38162.9317939815I have that book, and like it.  I especially liked the section on "pattern planning", especially the bit where the woman, because she's unemployed, imagines vistas of empty days stretching out before her like the plains of Utah.  After writing out a daily Pattern Plan, she has a more realistic view of how much (or how little) spare time is left after meals, a few priority projects etc. are blocked out.

Another book I really loved is "Time Management for Unmanageable People" by Anee McGee-Cooper and Duane Trammell.

Yet another great book:  "Time Management for the Creative Person" by Lee Silber.  See also his website, http://www.creativelee.com which has some free information about how to organize for right-brain thinkers.

Both these books exude enthusiasm and are full of organizing methods that make organizing fun as well as efficient:  things like using coloured folders, ways to use post-it notes, etc.  For example, go shopping once a month in an office supply store and buy stuff that you like even if you haven't figured out how to use it yet.