One of my favorite resources for people who say “I must have ADD, I can’t remember where I put my last nerve” is a book called CrazyBusy and its accompanying newsletter (free). I subscribe and I love it.

Lief Hansen challenges his brain by spending the day writing with his non-dominant hand – and then blogs about it.

Want to know how to get inspired to start organizing? Remember where you came from. In this article I wrote, you’ll learn how to organize by remembering what’s really important.

Learn how mind games can help you increase your ability to remember things in this article from the Auburn Journal.

Or, better yet, try out some of these mind games at Sharp Brains.com.

Wishing you a safe and happy Memorial Day.

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I subscribe to Hallowell’s CrazyBusy tips feed and was notified of a free conference call – happening today! – featuring Dr. Hallowell and others, including Joe Polish of Piranha Marketing.

Here is the email text in its entirety:

What I want to share with you are the secrets to keeping your life simple and keeping your business profitable. And, you can find them here –> www.SuccessWith Sanity.com

Joe Polish of Piranha Marketing, is hosting a teleseminar on Thursday, this week, March 27th. The experts on this call are great fun to listen to but this call is really an incredible gift because these guys are going to deliver over 90 minutes of valuable strategies you can use right now to get control – “CrazyBusy No More!” – quit “working” when you’re out of your office or on vacation, or when you’re trying to spend quality time with your family.

Please – join us on the call this Thursday – just listening can change (and maybe even save) your life. Here are the call in details:

Date: Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Time: 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern
Phone: 1-507-726-3343
Passcode: 32708#

(For those of you who really are insanely busy there’s a replay at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern – same phone number and passcode.)

Not sure? Check out LifeHacker’s eval of Dr. Hallowell’s book: CrazyBusy: Overstretched, overbooked, and about to snap.

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For some people, the flip side of this creative streak is the propensity for getting distracted. Easily.

Now, I’m no clinician (and I don’t play one on television) but it’s my theory that there are a ton of entrepreneurs with out there with “attention deficit disorder” that don’t know it. Say what you will about over-diagnosis of ADD in kids, but a some Gen Xers and Boomers missed being diagnosed entirely.

I’m a perfect case. My whole life I got harangued with, “You’re so smart, why can’t you finish…(insert task)?” When I started my business, I felt paralyzed by my disorganization, poor follow through, and the nagging dread that I would forget to do something important. I proceeded fearing that someday my house of cards would fall – along with my business – because of some fatal omission. Learning I had ADD helped immensely.

You might hate being labeled, but folks with ADD are known to have above average intelligence and make rapid-fire mental connections. ADD brains are cool.

In my organizing business, I love working with entrepreneurs with ADD because the smallest tweaks to their physical environments help them capture their lighting-speed ideas – and then actually put them into action. Doing this also has a huge, positive impact on their business. They can prevent visual distractions and other annoying stimulus from derailing their creative spurts.

If you got labeled as “hyperactive” or a “space cadet” as a kid, I highly recommend the book Delivered from Distraction. It’s the tome on what’s good about ADD and how to get more from your life if you’ve got it. Ironically, both the authors have ADD.

Check out Delivered From Distraction for a ton of great ideas that apply directly to your organized biz.

Once you read it, you might not be distracted by whatever that chicken’s doing.

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