Oct05

Would you like to have the benefits of coaching but can't fit it in your budget? Try Group Coaching For many ADDers money can be a problem. In order to allow as many as possible reach the help they want at a price that can fit in most budgets I am offering group coachingThe group forming now will be held by phone each Monday for 8 weeks.We will spend an hour and a half together on Mondays from 8:00 PM EST to 9:30 PM EST. Each person will be responsible for their own long distance charges. We can work out what goals you want to reach and set out the steps to reach those goals. With small goals you can reach several in the 8 week period. Larger ones may take longer. You set your own pace. I will give information about how ADD affects us and what we need to give us the best chance of success.The fee is $300.00 for the 8 week series.To sign up use the plans page on the web site and go down to the groups button. After your payment has been received you will be sent the information you will need to join the group call.

If you learn easiest when you can hear the content spoken to you then you are an auditory learner. For you it might help you recall what you need if you make a recording of yourself reading the material. This can help on several levels. You will get some of the information as you read the material .You will hear the material as you record it. You will have the recording to listen to as you drive, jog or work in the yard

This is a combination issue because I wasn't able to get one out last month. This September I had too much on my plate and made the choice to let the newsletter slide. Besides what I had going on with my coaching business I became very involved with getting information out about ADD Awareness Day for September 14th this year. It was only the second awareness day to be set by the United States Senate and I wanted to spread the word in my community.I'm in recovery mode at the moment LOL. This is so important for those of us who tend to take on too much at one time. When we make the choice to add that extra serving to our plate of responsibilities we want to keep in mind that there are limits to what we can effectively handle. We need to take into consideration the time it takes for us to recover after a period of overload. If we don't have time available to recoup we have to decide which things are most important and step back from the ones that come out on the bottom of the list. It seems that I didn't step back quite far enough and have had to deal with the consequences. Another lesson for me and maybe one or two of you if you have the ability to learn from the missteps of someone else. Unfortunately I usually have to learn this type of lesson first hand and several times before it sinks in completely.I think I'll put a note on my calendar for next Awareness Day to be better prepared. Meantime let's try to keep the purpose of that day in mind all year. To help people understand what ADD really is and destroy the myths that keep people from getting the help they need.

This is an article that many of us can identify with. It's good to have the reason for some of the things we blamed on a lack of will power. It's more like self medicating. So grab your coffee and cigs and read on : -)ADHD a Predictor of Future Smoking <http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0%2C1854%2C578375%2C00.html>

The CHADD conference is being held in Dallas Texas October 27-29 for more info www.chadd.org <http://www.chadd.org> and for those in the Seattle Washington area ADD Resources has a conference this weekend www.addresources.org <http://www.addresources.org>

For those who are not aware ADDA has a series of tele-classes going on. You may have missed a couple but there are many great ones coming up. For more information go to www.add.org <http://www.add.org>