My ADD / ADHD Blog

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Is your ADHD interfering in your life? Do you have trouble getting through your ADHD reading list? Are you ready to take the next step to better manage your life?

Then it's time to do something different!

Join ADHD Coach Cindy Giardina, as we read a helpful book about Adult ADD / ADHD each month. We will discuss the reading and how it helps and supports you as an Adult with ADD / ADHD. This program will help you follow through with your reading, while deepening your understanding of ADD/ADHD.

Just like in-person book clubs, our "book club" Telephone calls are interactive. We open up the conversation for YOU to learn from each other's experiences and have your questions answered by an ADHD expert and your peers. While discussing the reading Cindy will share simple and effective strategies for living with ADHD.

Purchase: You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

Special Winter Reading!

Monday February 1, 8, 15, & 22 @ 9:00 pm Eastern

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Monday March 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 @ 9:00 pm Eastern

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ADD / ADHD and Internet Addiction

This Wednesday at 2:00 pm EST I will be joined on ADHD Coach Talk by Kevin Roberts. He and I will be talking about ADD/ADHD and Internet Addiction. I'm really excited to have Kevin on ADHD Coach Talk and am sure this will be an excellent show. You can listen to us live at 2:00 pm EST or if you can't make the live show you will be able listen to it in the ADHD Coach Talk archives or via iTunes.

Happy New Year!

Wow, I can't believe 2010 is here! I want to wish all of my blog readers a very happy New Year. I hope that 2010 is a great year for everybody!! On Tuesday January 5th I will be leading a free ADDClasses.com Teleseminar called Success Strategies for the New Year. I hope you will join me!

Attack Your Clutter in 2010

Wow, I can't believe that there are just a few more days left in 2009!! I'm sitting in my office right now looking at all of my clutter trying to finish some end of the year work related to ADDClasses.com. Ironically one of the items on my list is to let people know that the $100 off early bird rate for the next Adult ADD Declutter Group ends on 12/31. If you too would like to Attack your Clutter in 2010 then check out the Adult ADD Declutter Group.

Money Matters Teleseminar

 Tonight ADDClasses.com will be hosting the FREE Teleseminar Money Matters: Help for the Fiscally Disorganized with Stephanie Sarkis, PhD. Dr Sarkis is also the author of a new book called ADD and Your Money: A Guide to Personal Finance for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. It's the first book written specifically about Adult ADHD and Money. Money Matters: Help for the Fiscally Disorganized starts at 9:00 pm EST tonight. As of right now there is still space left and you can sign up ADDClasses.com.

Adult ADD / ADHD Clutter Talk

After a bit of a hiatus ADHD Coach Talk is back! Join me tomorrow (Thurs) at 2:00 pm EDT with my guest ADHD Coach host Becca Colao. Becca and I will be talking about Adult ADD / ADHD and Clutter. If you can't listen to live you will able to able to listen to the recording later on the ADHD Coach Talk site or download it as a podcast on iTunes.

Events for Women with ADD / ADHD

This coming Monday, June 8th I will be speaking at the Virtual ADHD Family Summit about Women and Girls with ADD/ADHD. The Virtual ADHD Family Summit is free and you can listen via the telephone or internet. My interview begins at 9:00 pm EDT.

Next Tuesday and every Tuesday morning Becca Colao will be hosting a chat over at the Women with ADHD Online Community. This chat is free and open to all members of the Women with ADHD Online Community. Just log into Women with ADHD and click the chat link towards the bottom right of the site.

Prioritizing and Getting Stuck

Wow, it's been almost 3 weeks since I blogged! I think this may have been the longest I've gone with out blogging since I started the blog 4 years ago. Once again I thought I was having writer's block because I couldn't think of anything to write. But, once it again it was because I had so many thoughts, ideas, and events that I could write about and didn't stop to take the time to prioritize and choose just one to start with.

When I did finally stop for a few minutes to get things out of my head and on paper I was amazed at how easy it was for me to choose where to start. For example I have 3 important events happening this week at ADDClasses.com and realized writing about them in the order they will be happening made a lot of sense.

Monday - Terry Matlen and I are going to open up the ADD Action Club For new Members.

Tuesday -  Dr. John Ratey will be offering a Free Teleseminar about ADHD and Exercise

Wednesday - The 6 Week Free Organized Job Search Program begins.

Coaching Tip: When you are stuck and not sure how to prioritize, start with a very simple system.

ADHD Family Summit

This past Wednesday I interviewed Dr. Rory Stern on ADHD Coach Talk about his upcoming ADHD Family Summit. The ADHD Family Summit is a free virtual event that begins on Monday May 4, 2009. I will also be participating in the ADHD Family Summit as one of the ADHD Experts and will be discussing Women and Girls with ADHD.

If you missed the live interview you can listen to it now in the ADHD Coach Talk Archives or on iTunes.

Keep It Simple Stupid

I really like the saying: K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple Stupid.  I go crazy when people over complicate things and like things as simple as possible. With that being said, I know that I too can sometimes make things more complicated than they really need to be. I know I could really benefit from learning how to keeps thing simple.

This why I am really excited about the free Teleseminar that ADDClasses.com is hosting on Wednesday February 18th. Ariane Benefit will be leading Simplifying Your Life : Strategies that really work for people with ADHD at 2:00 pm New York Time.

Space is limited!

Sign up now at: www.addclasses.com

Registered participants can listen to this live teleseminar for free from anywhere in the world over the Internet or call in over the telephone.