Great Side-Gigs for Busy-Minded Teachers
Some people have described living with ADHD as having a constant noise in their heads. Others say it’s like a perpetual feeling of being off-balance. Whatever ADHD feels like to you, you may constantly feel the need to keep moving or bounce around from project to project. As a teacher, you can maintain your focus […]
Easy Workplace Management with ADHD at Home
Easy Workplace Management with ADHD at Home Traditional office workplace environments can pose quite the challenge for those of us who deal with ADHD. There’s a ton of stimuli being thrown at you at any given time, and it’s your responsibility to prioritize and maximize your workload efficiency. Of course, the same is true, perhaps […]
You Are Not the Boss of Me … or Are You?
How to Shift the ‘Attitude” and Have More Fun In Your Job In my twenties I worked for a big corporation as a legal secretary. Now imagine an off-the-chart ADDer doing this job in the first place. After being shuffled around the legal department to various attorneys who the company thought I could work with, […]
Excel In Career and Life with ADHD
A Few Career Fields of Fascination that Can Be Magical To Us Some of our peers in the workplace may view ADD/ADHD as a curse, placing us at a disadvantage because we may not always methodically perform otherwise menial tasks. Depending on the career path, though, some may say the opposite: that ADHD can be […]
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. […]
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 […]
Understand Your Value at Work with ADD
In my practice, I often hear, “I do the work of three people and no one understands what I do.” So when asked to provide an explanation, the only answer we can come up with is “It’s complicated.” This happened to me in my own company as a franchisor with KidzArt. For me, it got […]
TIME TO PLAY and REJOICE
Quit Being So Serious OMG – I have been listening to the Love Afformation by Noah St. John and I am feeling so good and inspired that I wanted to refocus us all on PLAYING and to stop trying to figure it all out. I drove my son to his job this morning, and […]
What Creates Inspired Action – A True Story
You might be familiar with the term “Compelling Vision”, or creating a compelling vision of your future. If you have ever attempted to “visualize” your Compelling Vision before you have a crystal clear direction, you may find it a daunting process. In this post, I am sharing the Compelling Vision of my client Jonathan. If […]