Adult ADD Strengths

Update: Here’s the wiki page for the ADHD presentation on the Moosecamp Wiki

I’m doing a presentation at Moosecamp at the Northern Voice Blogging Conference in Vancouver today. Title is Attention Surplus Condition (Aka ADHD) in High Tech. Managing all that Extra Energy and Creativity. So if you or anyone you know or work with have the gift and the challenge of ADHD, and are at the blogging conference at UBC today, please show up with your questions. Thanks to noted Vancouver Fashion Photographer and digerati Kris Krug for the encouragement. Here’s the overview

There are a lot of ways how to deal with Adult Attention Surplus Condition, aka Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Here are a few.

Top Ten Ways to Manage Adult ADHD

1. ADHD Coaching. More for adults than children. Pills can be useful but pills don’t teach skills. They can however, put you in a better place to learn them through ADD coaching or therapy. See the 26 benefits of adult ADHD coaching. Adult ADHD Coaching focuses on practical day to day ways to manage adult ADHD more effectively at work and at home. Adult ADHD Coaches work on dealing with the challenges of ADHD and identifying and developing the strengths of having ADHD. They work over the phone for 3-4 sessions per month. Most adult ADD coaches offer a free sample sessions of ADD coaching so you can try before you buy.

Overboard by Chip Dunham is one of the funniest comic strips out there. Louie is my favourite character. Life coaches are everywhere.

Less = More.

That’s the concept of Zenware the software category of reducing the increasing amount of clutter clogging our computer screens. Jeffrey MacIntyre had a good article in Slate magazine about it. Via Webworker Daily.

The philosophy behind zenware is to force the desktop back to its Platonic essence. There are several strategies for achieving this, but most rely on suppressing the visual elements you’re used to: windows, icons, and toolbars. The applications themselves eschew pull-down menus or hide off-screen while you work. Even if you consider yourself inured to their presence, the theory goes, you’ll benefit most from their absence.

Wow. Check this video out.

If you want to see something inspirational, this video is worth a click. Youtube version here

Ringtone here

Yes We Can is a music video by Will.i.am (born in Toronto) of the Black Eyed Peas inspired by Barack Obama’s Yes We Can Speech in New Hampshire. Lot of other famous people in the music video. He did it in 2 days.

I’d highly recommend watching the individual speech. Even if Obama is not your cup of tea. As a poly-sci major and political junkie, I’ve seen a lot of speeches but this was amazingly inspirational and words don’t do it justice. If you want to see how powerful a speech can be, check it out.