ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
by Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau
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Book Reviews of ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
Book Review: Me too - what?
Summary: 5 Stars
What's great about the book is that opens each chapter with another patient example. It's great because, if you're like me?
You can relate.
The book makes your organizational problems and problems with time management more functional to the ADHD mind. It just does. When I think of all the "just make a list and follow the list" advice I got, or, "just set an alarm and stop doing the work when the alarm goes off," I start to realize that people have been talking down to me and my issue here. I don't like it. The 'list', in conventional terms, isn't for everybody.
What I like best about the authors approach, is that they try to ground their organizational tactics in narrative, and in patterns, and in people helping you achieve this goal, and in... in some many avenues that your crazy ADHD mind has no ability to avoid it. It encounters a self-symmetrical pattern every direction it turns that brings you back to your goal, and your plan, and your schedule.
For some people, that takes seven seconds in the morning. For some of us, it's taken a lifetime to begin to achieve.
Thank you doctors.
Book Review: Excellent reference
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is like hiring a coach, without having to find one and make an appointment! (No individualized support, but you can only expect so much from a book...)
I liked this book a lot. When I implemented some of the strategies in it (like setting a weekly schedule with a paperwork night when you only do paperwork), I got a much better handle on my life.
Some of the suggestions are good for everyone, but those are usually accompained with tips for those with ADHD. Some of the suggestions are perfect for those with ADHD, but not so much for others.
One suggestion I *loved* was the suggestion to get rid of drawers to store clothes. You don't always know what's in your bureau, when you take something out from the bottom, you have to fix the stuff on top, and folding is such a huge pain. For children, they recommend just big baskets - one for pants, one for shirts, and one for socks/underwear. For professional adults, she suggests hanging up all your clothes. When I bought a department store clothes rack, the time it took me to get ready in the morning went from an hour to 10 minutes.
Great book!
Book Review: Not just for ADD adults
Summary: 4 Stars
If you get side-tracked when trying to tidy up, or get lost organizing one drawer when the whole kitchen is a mess, or wander from room to room with something in hand that just needs to be put away, this book will speak to you.
Among all the organizing books I've read, this one is a keeper. Provides a lot of the same tips from other authors, but the explanations help you more strategically perform the task at hand and achieve results.
I had lots of ah-ha moments, when the light bulb went on, and I could see what I was doing, and why it wasn't effective. With that, I had extra mental leverage to successfully implement some of the suggestions.
The writing is well done, but more importantly, the visual layout is very clear. The information is pretty easy to pick off the page. I'm not sure exactly what it is about the font, or the arrangement of the page, but whatever tricks thay are using in this book, elevate it above others in the same category.
Along with books by Sandra Felton and Peter Walsh, this book by Kolberg and Nadeau is now one of my favs.
Book Review: Excellent book on organization
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is really a great book on organization.
Before I read this book, I had heard a bunch of tips on organization, time management, and controlling your finances, but they all have seemed really overwhelming to me.
This book presented a bunch of really good ways to organize without having to be an organizing genius. I like how the book breaks each chapter into three sections: 1) how you can organize yourself, 2) how you can work with family and friends to be organized, and 3) how you can pay professionals to help you organize.
The book is written in really large type, so I kind of felt like I was reading a "stupid book," but it was pretty easy to read, and reading can be kind of tough for me sometimes.
And, the book gives a bunch of different examples for a bunch of different ADD situations. I thought that was helpful, because there is no one ADD mold that fits everyone. So, some chapters I identified with, and some I didn't. It's really written in a pick and choose format, so I was able to use what helped me and leave what I didn't identify with.
Book Review: Unique and Enlightening
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a very severe case of ADHD and have done a condsiderable amount of reaserch on the subject, even sharing new information with my doctors at times. I bought this intending to use it as I do most of these type of books, more as a reference than a straight read through. I have found myself however, devouring it more eagerly than I have many novels. I learned many NEW things from this book. I really feel it is changing my life for the better, page by page. The combined perspectives of the two authors is what makes this book so groundbreaking. If you have ADD it is written in YOUR language-in an interesting ADD minded format and not condescending like many sources on the subject, yet unexpectedly sympathetic. But the most important thing is how much you will learn from this book, about yourself and how to develop a realistic approach to succeeding in all areas of day to day life. THE BEST MONEY I HAVE SPENT TOWARDS TAKING CONTROL OF MY ADD, but please don't feel that you need to have ADD to benefit from this book. I hate self help books but this book really made me feel better about myself.