ADHD Professionals in the Corporate World
Challenged to keep the fires burning? With or without ADHD, navigating your professional career can be daunting. This is particularly true if you have a great deal invested in an education, years in your field, and are now working in a corporate environment on the executive track. I knew my corporate years were numbered when […]
Details, Details
Piecing together your life’s work Argh! Cringe. That is my first response to the word “details.” When I hear sayings like, “The Love is in the details”, the first thing I want to do is hire someone to take care of them …. Whatever they are! Yet when it comes to piecing together the elements […]
Career Uncertainty (Certainty) in Today’s Climate
Disclaimer: This is not a political article. It is an article of hope and clarity. How many times have you heard stories about folks who thrive during the darkest times in our history – 2008 economic crash perhaps comes to mind. There were companies and individuals who lost their shirts. Then there were individuals and […]
How to Love Your Means-to-an-End Job
In my twenties I worked for a large corporation in San Francisco as a legal secretary. Imagine, if you will, an off-the-chart, inattentive ADDer doing this job in the first place. This is a job that requires organizational skills, minimal ego, ability to take direction with a smile, learn new processes and technology, whether I […]
Your Emotions and Right Livelihood – The Devine Connection
I just finished watching a series of videos by Brendon Burchard, who is a genius and multi-zillionaire in the internet marketing world. His program is only one example of the “find your passion and make money at it internet business” opportunities to learn how to make a fortune in this industry. Clearly, these programs are […]
ADD/ADHD COACH OR A NEW LIVELIHOOD?
As I was about to finish a blog post for my website, I saw that I started this post several months ago, but never finished it – or even started it at all for that matter. So in true ADD form, I got distracted by a shiny object and quickly moved on to another topic. […]
Steps to Enter Your Inner Career Game
How often have you heard that defining your career is an inner career game? If so, or even if you have not, ask yourself these questions: Are you now looking for work out of desperation? Are you more concerned about getting the job just because you have the skills or because the job appeals to […]
The Entrepreneurial ADDer – The Ultimate Freedom
So the elephant in the room is that most of my clients with ADD seem to end up creating a business that capitalizes on their authentic gifts in an entrepreneurial capacity. I have to admit that I have likely been dancing around this fact because I don’t want to give the impression that if you […]
Synchronicity and Career ADD
A few weeks ago I received an email from the “Twilight Zone.” It read, “Are you the Shelley Mendelson I met in Europe in 1980? Actually it was 1981, but I digress. In fact, he was a friend that I had gotten to know while traveling and living in California and came up to visit […]
Nine Essential Career ADD Strategies
I am reposting this article as a reminder to fall in love with the work you do and make it a priority! Those of us with Career ADD have special challenges that are necessary to address if we are to live well and find Career Happiness. I consider these things “must dos.” I have heard […]