April 30, 2008
Bought a Book
Well, I’m supposed to be staying up late working, and I took a “short break” and checked my email. I saw an email with a coupon for 50% off a book at audible.com, so I clicked it and ended up browsing all over audible. Then, I wanted to see if audible had any of the books in my Amazon.com wishlist, so I went to Amazon, used those titles to search audible, and didn’t find any. Then, I realized I really wanted a book at Amazon.com, but that I thought I might find it cheaper somewhere else online, so I looked on half.com. After browsing all 3 sites and looking at all of the popular books, books in my wishlist, and books that have absolutely nothing to do with anything (and reducing my available awake-time for late-night working by an hour), I settled on this book: Finding Your Focus by Judith Greenbaum and Geraldine Markel
How appropriate that I wasted an hour of time and ended up buying a book about focusing :)
Anyway, I like that the book is written by women and that it has great reviews on Amazon, so I’ll let you all know whether I like it once I receive it and have a chance to read it. Has anyone else read this book? If so, leave a comment and let us know what you thought!
April 23, 2008
Minor Achievement
OK, well I’m really only writing this because I need *someone* to share my minor success with… no one’s here at the office to celebrate, so I figured this type of achievement is an ADD-blog-worthy topic. I overcame a big obstacle in my quest to start exercising again (notice, it’s a quest just to get started, I’m sure you understand) – I rode my bike to work today!!
Google maps says it’s exactly 2 miles, and it is quite hilly. I walked my bike up the ‘big’ hill right outside my neighborhood (that scary hill was the biggest excuse for me not to ride, until my super-athletic sister said “Renee, you could just walk your bike up the hill.” – she disabled my biggest excuse! The nerve!), but I rode the rest of the way, stopping at the several intersections in-between.
I rode on the sidewalk, which is actually illegal here, but I’m too afraid to ride in the street on a small highway – even with a lot of intersections, cars go pretty fast on that road. I’ll leave the road-riding to my spandex-clad tour-de-france-in-training aerodynamic-helmeted friends. It would be funny if I rode an aerodynamic helmet, riding my brakes all the way down the steep hills.
So anyway, all winter I said I’d get outside and exercise when it got warm, then during the last couple weeks when it started warming up, I felt so lazy from being a bum all winter, that it was hard to get started. So, I thought I’d start big, and I made it!
I am in an upbeat mood now, and feel focused, so I think I’ll be able to get a lot done today. I’ve heard exercise helps ADD, and I’ve posted about it before (see the Exercise category), so in addition to helping me get fit, maybe this is the start of a new round of ADD self-treatment, too.
Now let’s hope I can get back home….
Sneak Peek Article
Hello everyone, I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve last posted. Hopefully I will start writing regularly again in the summer. In the meantime, here is some reading material for you courtesy of ADDitude Magazine. It’s a sneak peak of an article coming out in the next issue, with some ‘best practices’ for utilizing planners effectively:
Tame Time
ADD coach Sandy Maynard and her clients team up to create planners that help every adult with ADHD get organized.
http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/3572.html
Kick My ADD 