Hi I have been struggling for endless years to get myself organized and I am wondering if any of those ADD methods to get your life organized actually work. I am now looking at the Life Lifters Audio coach, and their website sounds just as promising as all the others... I have tried a few things, like the ADDplanner, without success but I am serious now to attack my mess. Anybody there with positive results in their efforts to get their life under control?

Thanks

Michael

i found two ways that work on getting rid of it , but it always come back just like my waistline.

1  take one room at a time  - furthest from exit rooms and empty the entire contects and start from scratch. this works cause there is immediate and dramatic change which inspires us to keep going.

2  making a commitment to put in place a routine .

fill five boxes or tubs one  day and empty them completly the next. plus have ten small tubs that you can for garage sale and an extra large clean trash can on wheels to help sort clutter  into  trash , junk , stuff. if its not yard sale season then take it all to a flea market and make an offfer a vender cant refuse.

personally  i myself have to have cleaning buddies.

i tell  a fib to some associates  about house cleaning parties and sometimes i can get a group of 4-5 people that visit eachothers houses  we clean  listen to music  eat pizza together . this works best as i usually got motivated to clean before they got there.

one other that i use to but was hit or miss was i made a huge list of chores  put into three catagories     time -priority -quick   i would  usea hotmail account to email my cellphone that days list . everything had to fit in months time  and things washing windows or the stove on the 31 because they didnt come around very often.   

i still do this but its hit or miss    im just trying to prompt myself to do it.

the thing is to keep a journal that has a lot to do with everything else.

i make little marks at the end of my entries that say how long its been since ive did somethings .  i used to self med with caffine when a month would go by with just doing dishes 

My problem is not the cleaning part either. I get highly motivated (just spent the day cleaning my whole house AND my car for the first time in dont know how long...) and it feels sooooo good to sit in a clean place and relax.

My question basically referred to keeping things that way.

I know I have to start some kind of journal for me the PDA works fine, again its a matter of keeping doing it.

A friend of mine said something very smart that gives me hope now. He thinks that I just need to train my mind consistency and I kind of believe that even with ADD the mind is teachable to keep doing things. I mean I finally learned brushing my teeth every day. Wow, what an achievement, I ve not stopped that routine in years ... so I believe anything goes, just a matter of training my mind and trying over and over when I fail. Its like learning to play the piano my friend says, you don't give up every time you get stuck or hit a wrong note, you keep playing that note until its automatized. Same thing with keeping my office clean.

Of course it would be helpful to know how to organize a home office...maybe I'll try those life lifters...

Will let you know if it works.

Michael