Insist on yourself; never imitate. With your own gift… (4847)
ADHD Quotes
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. With your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You live in a world of uniformity, conformity and standard mandated ways of learning and doing things. When you try to be someone that is your natural self, by following rules and regulations that tell you how we should act, you become frustrated and demotivated. You are under constant pressure to perform predetermined standards which do not play to your strengths while trying to be somebody else you are supposed to be.
You were born with a unique brain wiring like no other in the world. You are possessed with an inner greatness which can only manifest based on the different strengths you possess. When you have barriers that are placed in your path, which you are required to imitate, you are acting out someone else's idea of who you should be and how you should do things. You remain stagnant and your own personal growth becomes difficult, if not impossible. -David Giwerc
Dr. Hallowell’s Response to the NY Times Opinion Piece “Ritalin Gone Wrong” NY Times January 28,2012 (841)
ADHD Education
Regarding the opinion piece "Ritalin Gone Wrong" written by Alan Sroufe, Ph.D., (NY Times, Jan. 29, 2012): As is usually the case when the use of stimulant medications like Ritalin makes it into mainstream media, the piece pushed emotional hot-buttons in a way that would scare the daylights out of uninformed readers and lead them to avoid ever using such medications or allowing their children to, thereby giving up on a class of medications with enormous potential benefits.
Let me offer a different point of view. I'm an M.D., a child and adult psychiatrist who's been treating children who have what we now call ADHD for over 30 years. I was on the Harvard Medical School faculty for 20 years, and I still see patients in my offices in Sudbury, MA, and New York City every day. I have both ADHD and dyslexia myself. I've co-written, with John Ratey, the best-selling books on the topic of ADHD. I know this condition, and its various treatments, inside and out.
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Do You Know Your Value? (985)
ADHD Education
"If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." ~Author Unknown
No one is going to make you more valuable than you already are. How can they? No one knows your inner value, strengths and power better than you do. How can you expect others to tell you how valuable you are when they don’t live inside of you? They don’t think, act or live like you? Only you know you based on the choices you make every day.
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When You Become an ADHD Coach, Your Life Will Change (654)
Free Intros | Become an ADHD Coach
Individuals with ADHD need the support of a well-trained ADHD coach who can educate them about their unique brain wiring. It will significantly improve the quality of their lives. As a well-trained ADHD coach, you can empower your ADHD clients to identify their strengths, talents, and sense of purpose to create the life they truly deserve.
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Attention Talk Radio presents “ADHD Awareness Week,” - Press Release (1329)
Announcements
Attention Talk Radio, the ADHD Information Station, Presents "ADHD Awareness Week," Sponsored by the ADD Coach Academy.
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ADHD: Defining Your Life by Your Choices (1067)
ADHD Education
If you define yourself by what you can’t do, what you can’t do grows.
If the majority of what you pay attention to is about: the challenges you face, your weaknesses and the things you can't do, then those negative thoughts will continue to show up as a major part of your life.
In every situation, and in every moment of our lives, we are given the divine right and choice to think whatever we want.
When given the choice to think about what we want more of in our lives, isn’t it better to think about what we CAN do?
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The Impact of ADHD on Business (477)
ADHD Education
If you do not understand how your ADHD impacts your performance at work or in your business, it will continue to impede your ability to create progress.
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Attention Deficit Is in the Office, Too (1496)
ADDCA In The News | ADHD Education
New York Times
Business Section
Executive Life
By Anne Field
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Two years ago, Andrew Hearn felt as if he was going nowhere fast. He was 45 but couldn't hold down a full-time job in his field, social work, instead doing part-time stints at Planned Parenthood of New York City and Beth Israel Medical Center.
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Office Messes (2003)
ADDCA In The News
New York Times Magazine
By Lisa Belkin
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When Vivienne Sales finally broke her silence, she did so loudly, losing her temper in the hushed library where she worked. It was August 2003, and she had been hanging on to her job as a reference librarian by the most fragile of threads. For more than a year her supervisors at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz., had been warning her that she was sometimes sloppy and inaccurate. She was late for work too often, they said. She didn't dress neatly and appropriately. Her desk was always a mess.
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Is it ADHD that’s Eating the Boss? (4670)
ADDCA In The News | ADHD Education
London Times on-line
Good job? Can’t concentrate? Lost your keys? Then you may have ADHD, which, as Abigail Rayner reports from New York , is no longer suffered only by children
EVERY TIME Lauren Webber, a 49-year-old sales manager from Boston, left his house, he had to go through the same frustrating ritual of trying to find the keys or mobile phone he had been holding in his hands only minutes before.
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