If you just went to a general Life coach then there is a good chance the she wasn't really trained to deal with ADD. There are many different approaches to life coaching. There are even different approaches for coaches who are trained to coach people with ADD.
I went to a coach for a little while. She was insistant that I use this calendar with the 15-minute increments in it.
This is problematic for me for two reasons:
#1 - My job is somewhat unpredictable. I travel and may take 30 minutes to get somewhere or may be stuck in traffic for 90 minutes (that throws the 15-minute increments off by quite a bit). Customers call on the phone and I have to drop what I am doing to take care of them. At home our teenager often will need a ride or help with homework we had not anticipated, etc.
#2 - HELLO.......I have ADD! I honestly think that if I were capable of filling out an entire day's worth of 15-minute increments into a calendar the night before and then actually be able to follow it, I would not need a coach. I would be ten times more organized than most people without ADD.
Is this the only coaching approach out there?
This was an ADD coach. I have heard of this approach from other ADD coaches also.
I cannot even imagine using something so detail-intensive as a daily planner with 15-minute increments. I am functioning just a step above pinning a note to my shirt!
Anybody can call themselves and ADD Coach but that doesn't they actually have an understanding of ADD. I know a lot of ADD Coaches and none of the well trained one that I know would try to force their clients to use a planner.
Not that I have anything against planners.
I have a large collection of them in a drawer at home.
lol....I have a few under my bed.