Life Coach in Japan
This article from the Japan Times talks about Wendy Kerr, a life coach in Japan, a place where I lived for 3 years, in Sapporo, the capital of the northern Island of Hokkaido. Coaching is happening all over the globe.
We identified his ideal week, then looked to see how realistically this could be made practical. He learned the importance of prioritizing. Once he got a better handle on time, it was amazing how his energy shifted. Since I know the cookie-cutter approach to time-management doesn’t work, it’s more a matter of changing beliefs about the importance of the time you have got.
Amen to that. Many people especially people with Attention Deficit Disorder try to take time management systems from books and apply them to their lives without modification and end up frustrated and often give up on the system. Bob’s time management for chaotic people may work for Bob but it usually won’t work for you unmodified since you probably don’t think, behave and feel like Bob. Parts of it may work for you if you modify it for your life, that is, change it so it fit’s with how you think and behave. Coaches can be really useful in this process.
A great book for ADD time management is ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
by
Kathleen Nadeau and Judith Kolberg. Traditional time management books are almost useless for ADD, our brains are wired differently. Here’s some time management articles, books and websites from my ADD website.
What time management techniques have you found to useful in keeping your ADD race car mind on track?
