The ADD hiker: an organized hike is a safe hike

A lot of people with ADHD find that they love being outside.  Personally, I feel like my ADD vanishes the minute I leave civilization.  I’m usually the first one to spot wildlife, catch birdsong, or to notice a change in the weather.  Maybe there’s something to that whole Hunter/Farmer thing.

However, heading outside can be also [...]

Organizing An Entryway, Step 3: Sorting

This is the third post in my Organizing an Entryway series. I’m breaking it down into steps that are as small as possible to prevent ADD overwhelm.

Now that I can actually walk in my entryway, I’m ready for the third step of the process (and the first step of the SPACE process): sorting.

Sorting actually [...]

Organizing an Entryway, Step 2: The Pre-Sort

This is the second post in my Organizing an Entryway series. I’m breaking it down into steps that are as small as possible to prevent ADD overwhelm.

The second step in my organizing process is a quick pre-sort.  This is a quick way to get rid of two categories of stuff: things that don’t belong [...]

Organizing My Entryway, Part 1: Taking Stock of the Situation

I stared work on my entryway today.  I’ll be posting a series of entries on how I’m going about it, step by step, so you can see how a Real Live Person with ADD starts and finishes an organizing project.

I basically use Julie Morgenstern’s five-step SPACE system (“SPACE” stands for Sort, Purge, Assign a home, [...]

How to Avoid Shopping Overwhelm

I’ll give you a hint: make someone else do the work

I detest shopping. I especially detest shopping in malls. They seem deliberately designed to be mazes, made all the more confusing by the fact that each one of them, nationwide, has all the same stores only in different configurations. I [...]

How to Use Gmail Calendar

In case you’re not up with the gmail these days,  it’s a free, web-based e-mail system with unlimited storage that is run by Google.  One of gmail’s many (many) features is its calendar, which you can tweak to your heart’s content.  You can create as many calendars as you want — for home and work, [...]