Great book wit specific, useful tips.

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	• ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau Routledge, 2002 - 280 pages average customer review:based on 81 reviews view larger image
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Great insight and ideas

This book has lots of great ways to organize your life if you have ADD. There is a lot of general advice in each chapter followed by a quick summary. The book is divided into the following sections:

Getting Started
Taking Charge of Add
Thing Organizing
Time Organizing
Paper Organizing
Conclusion
Resources

What I found most useful were "no-brainer" tips like the following:

Pre-pack a lunch;create a "launchpad" by the front door; only buy matching socks; organize your wardrobe around one color; pare down the clothing in your closet.

This last one has been very helpful. I used to rummage through clothing that I was keeping around "in case" I lost weight or that I hadn't worn in years; now my wardrobe is a lot thinner but less time-consuming. Women tend to have a lot more "upkeep" than men and it's easy to get bogged down with extra makeup, beauty products and other detritus.

Caveat: I definitely agree with the reviewer who said this book was geared towards those with roommates or spouses who can help with reminders, assist in organizing, etc. The book mentions ADD coaches, which sound great--I'd love to have one-- but they are not affordable for the vast majority of ADD-ers out there ($200-$400 a month for someone you speak to weekly).

In summary, this book is filled with lots of insights and general organizing ideas for ADD-ers, but you have to read and absorb the book and decide what applies best to you. It's not a laundry list of tips. that you can grab and implement within seconds. The best advice in the book (for me) was SIMPLIFY.

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Great, great book!

I'm not ADD, but recognized some of the traits within myself - taking on too many projects at once with no focus, gathering, piling, cluttering and never making sense of the stuff, etc. Thinking this book might help out, I gave it a try. By far one of the best organizational books out there, if not THE BEST!!! It gets right to the root of the problem from two angles - 1)tips for the actual organizing, and 2)addressing the issues behind your clutter and overwhelm - what causes you get in these situations in the first place? Works both sides of the equation to give you a great opportunity for success! Written in a straight forward manner, clear and concise - appeals to the eye, and to the limited spare time we all face in our lives - strictly the facts and information you need, no fluff. I've read it many times and highlighted throughout, referring to it again and again. USEFUL FOR ANYONE, not just ADD. Great, great book!

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Great book wit specific, useful tips.

I really don't get the one-star reviews for this book. I have read the entire book in a couple of sittings (which says something for someone w/ADD) and have found it very helpful. One criticism is that it often recommends the services of professionals, but I find the "permission" to hire someone to help me very freeing when most people only make me feel guilty for not being able to do this on my own. It also gives lots of tips and techniques of how to handle a lot of things myself and I have found several of them to be things I hadn't thought of or read before, even though I have read several organization books. I particularly like the parts about the specific ways to enlist the help of friends and family for different jobs. I highly recommend this book for those w/ADD trying to get organized.

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Practical Help

I am a mental healh therapist and found this book extremely practical for people coping with ADD as well as professionals working with them. The tips are excellent and relevant to life in our fast paced world. The book could also be helpful for those who simply have trouble being organized and who are not ADD.

The top organization book for ADD

I bought over 10 books on ADD and organizing, and only kept two: this one and 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD. This book's format and prose was written with ADD readers in mind, and the solutions are spot-on. Other books had overly simplistic or complicated ideas that seemed absurd or impossible. This book's ideas are very specific to the way an ADDer's brain works. I refer to it time and time again.

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