Adult ADD Strengths

Here are the links to websites and blogs relating to Time Management for Adults and Children with ADHD for my CHADD Vancouver ADHD Time Management presentation tonight.

Time Management websites Articles, Books and Websites

ADHD Treatment - Technology
Online, computer based and external clocks timers and reminders

Internet Addiction Wake Up Devices

21 blog posts on Time Management

Top Ten Most Annoying Alarm Clocks. ADD Strategic Management?

20 Ways to Say No for the overburdened people pleasers

Time Management for Anarchists: The Movie
You don’t need to be an anarchist to find it useful and funny.

Impulsive, easily distractible, stimulus seeking, time blind, forgetful, procrastinating ADDers often have problems with their personal finances regardless of level of income. Common problems I hear from some of my ADD coaching clients are late payments for bills they have money for, being years behind on filing taxes when the government owes them money, family arguments over money etc.

More than most people we ADD adults need to keep better track of how we’re spending our money. Here’s one possible solution.

Wesabe is an online program that helps you track your spending, and give you a better idea where your money is going and give you contextual tips about how to spend more wisely and track your financial goals. It’s a social web 2.0 app similar to 43 Folders for personal finances.

Voice Candy is a voice recorder that you can use as an alarm with your Mac computer. You have different effects, a snooze button, and it wakes your Mac up from sleep. You can email the recording as an mp3, and also put it on an itunes playlist and carry it around on your ipod.

Since we ADDers are more here and now oriented than future oriented, we’re often more fun to be around, but we’re also more likely to forget things like appointments or phone calls. You can use it to remind you of tasks or even to take regular breaks, something that ADDers often forget to do.

Senatorsmith blogs about what his experiences with ADHD are like. A really good post on what’s it like to have ADHD
He blogs about some of the negatives

in other ways it’s like being super-charged all the time. You get one idea and you have to act on it, and then, what do you know, but you’ve got another idea before you’ve finished up with the first one, and so you go for that one, but of course a third idea intercepts the second, and you just have to follow that one, and pretty soon people are calling you disorganized and impulsive and all sorts of impolite words that miss the point completely. - Unequivocally me… ever had a discussion with me where I ramble onto multiple tangents

The very useful Make Use Of blog has a pretty extensive list of 38 different To Do List Services. They also have links to each service and briefly describe some of the additional features of each service

apart from ‘Create/Delete/Edit Lists and Tasks’

For those of you who haven’t checked out online to do list services, there’s a lot more features nowadays then there was a few years ago.

Here’s some of the features of the different services listed:

Create tasks by dialing provided number and leaving a message

Retrieve and add lists via SMS receive alerts via E-mail, SMS or instant messenger

RSS support

This may be relevant to some of the bloggers at the Northern Voice Blog Conference in Vancouver this Friday and Saturday. Where there probably will be more adults with attention surplus condition than the average 5% in the population. See Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career.

Here’s an example of how a Web Designer, Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign, who’s

been organized most of my life

stays organized in the different areas of his web design business. He’s redesigned sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path.

I did this post last year and given the time of season, I thought it’d be useful to repost it. My theme for this year will be sustainable growth. Sustainable being the challenging part for an ADDer. Enjoy.

How many of you actually carry out your New Year’s resolutions? Honestly. In full.

I’m no paragon of virtue here myself.

I believe that after too many failed attempts at New Year’s resolutions, most people start to attach strong unconscious negative feelings towards New Year’s resolutions, but continue to create a new one or a batch of them each year in part out of guilt, or perceived social pressure.

Serial Filler talks about the true cost of stuff.

It takes time and energy to take care of stuff. Physical stuff, intellectual property, outdated issues, unresolved traumas and conflicts, even memories. I have a choice: caretake my past or build my future.

How true. Many of us ADDers like the stimulating process of accumulating physical and intellectual things, (something new! cool!) and fail to consider the true or full costs of those things beside their initial purchase or creation prices. Which in the long run is often the smallest cost.

Every posession you have you need to:

• find a place to keep it, and in doing so reduce your available space to move in.