Clutter, Organization, and ADHD

If you have Attention Deficit Disorder, I probably don’t have to tell you about how easy it is for clutter to creep up on you. It’s everywhere – the house, the car, our workspace, even our purses or briefcases. Clutter is one of the biggest reasons that we find it hard to keep our houses […]

Get Organized in 2009!

Last night my good friend Cara from The Household Helper held a seminar about getting your home organized once and for all. As someone with Attention Deficit Disorder, I’ve always struggled with keeping my house clean and organized. Cara had a lot of great tips to share – I took pages of notes! Here are […]

Let’s Get Organized with ADD!

This time of year, people start looking ahead to the New Year and making plans for improving their lives. I think one of the biggest things on many people’s lists is getting organized. (Unless you’re my former neighbor who sharpened and organized her daughter’s crayons alphabetically.) I know that having people over during the holidays […]

Get Organized for $1.00!

You know, organization is one of the big issues with Attention Deficit Disorder. Those of us with ADHD tend to be very visual people, storing things in the open so that we won’t lose them or forget about them. Of course, what ends up happening is that you have so much stuff lying about that […]

Systemize Your ADHD

As a person with a business online, I am often given advice on how to “work smarter, not harder”. One suggestion I hear a lot is to systemize much of my business. That means I put as much as possible into systems – having a set series of steps for tasks I do often, or […]

ADHD Planning System

I got the basis of this system from a friend. It’s based on David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”. I have used a similar system in the past, outlined in the book “Sidetracked Home Executives” by Pam Young and Peggy Jones that worked very well for me. This system will take some time to set up […]