The Planner Chronicles Continued

So the last time we talked about my quest to find the perfect planner, I mentioned that I had challenged myself to make the perfect one with just stuff I had around the house. I have at least 3 or 4 planner binders, tons of spiral notebooks, and a couple of bound journals all waiting […]

The Holiday Rush

Are you feeling the crunch yet? I know I am. Nothing bought, nothing cleaned and polished, nothing mailed. And I’ve already been invited to two events. When you have ADHD, any given day in the year can be overwhelming. When it’s the holiday season, it can get crazy. I suggest you cut back and simplify […]

An ADD Lesson from Our Thanksgiving Meal

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Are you ready for it? Are you cooking? And how does our Thanksgiving meal relate to ADHD? Well, most of us, even those of us with ADHD, prepare ahead of time for our Thanksgiving meal. If you are making dinner or even just a part of it, you had […]

How ADHD Interferes with Self Care

You know that I’m always telling your to take care of yourself – eat a healthy diet, drink plenty of water, exercise, and get enough sleep – for starters. And I know that you have the best intentions of doing just that. But intentions and actions are two different things. Sometimes you don’t take very […]

Haphazard Living

Do you live your life haphazardly? Do you bounce from one thing to another with no plan in mind? It seems that those of us with ADHD tend to do that – wandering from one thing to the next and then wondering at the end of the day why we didn’t accomplish more. That certainly […]

Newton’s Laws of Motion

Isaac Newton had some pretty cool ideas. He was an English mathematician and scientist. You may know of him because he discovered gravity. He also had some laws of motion that were pretty important. There’s a commercial using one of those laws as their tag line – “A body in motion tends to stay in […]