“Filled with tools, strategies, and checklists and written with a fine understanding of the problems adults with ADD face daily. This book is a gift to all who read it.” ―Edward Hollowell, M.D., bestselling author of Driven to Distraction Written by two expert ADD coaches with more than 30 years experience, this practical handbook offers adults with ADD practical techniques for coping with common everyday challenges. These simple proven strategies can help you focus attention, organize your thoughts, and manage time―so you can avoid missing appointments and deadlines, handle social situations, and improve memory skills. A safe alternative to prescription medications, it’s a complete home program that anyone can do.

Finding Your Focus: Practical Strategies for the Everyday Challenges Facing Adults with ADD

Business & Money

Geraldine Markel

Judith Greenbaum

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Solving the College Admissions Puzzle: A Guide for Students and Families About College Selection, Essay Writing, and High-Stakes Testing Are you stressed to the max when you: <ul>
<li>Tackle those daunting college applications? </li>
<li>Try writing those mystifying application essays? </li>
<li>Procrastinate studying for those nerve-wracking college admissions tests?</li>
</ul> Read this friendly, step-by-step guide to: <ul>
<li>Decide on the right schools for you </li>
<li>Find your unique voice to write a compelling application essay </li>
<li>Score your best on high-stakes tests such as the ACT and SAT </li>
<li>Develop a plan using worksheets </li>
</ul>Get practical advice about interactions between students and their parents, counselors,  teachers, college personnel and tutors.  Discover the strategies that three experts use to help students and their families fit together the pieces of the college admissions process.

Solving the College Admissions Puzzle

Test Preparation

John B. Boshoven

Debbie E. Merion

College & High School

Managing Your Mind, LLC

On average, dealing with interruptions at work consumes more than two hours a day or 28% of your whole workday. For many, it feels like there are mysterious forces that thwart your best efforts to be productive at work and beyond. These forces are labeled demons of distraction. And, these distractions deplete your psychic energy and divert your attention from important tasks, creating a barrier to being productive. You don't have to let your life spin out of control; you can take action against your distractions now. Increasing productivity by reducing distractions is a skill everyone can learn and improve. Confronted with today's uncertainties and challenges, banning distractions from your work/life can help manage your scattered, disorganized and forgetful mind. Drawing on the author's years as a trainer and coach, Markel's Actions Against Distractions: Managing Your Scattered, Disorganized and Forgetful Mind provides a step-by-step guide to banning common distractions from work/life. It provides a 5-step plan of attack and 7 strategies to implement an action plan against common distractions such as technology, interruptions, an unruly mind, stress and fatigue. With amusing stories, readers are guided to adapted research-based strategies to their individual needs and style. Ample examples and exercises allow the reader to answer the question, how do I change ineffective habits and move from good intentions to positive actions. Actions Against Distractions can be used alone as a workbook or in tandem with Defeating the 8 Demons of Distraction: Proven Strategies to Increase Productivity and Decreasing Stress.

Actions Against Distractions: Managing Your Scattered, Disorganized, and Forgetful Mind

PHD.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

"Defeating the 8 Demons of Distraction," has proven strategies to increase productivity and decrease stress. Are distractions sabotaging your efforts to get ahead? Do you feel like you're constantly plagued by technology or interruptions by others? Lurking around us are forces labeled demons that interrupt our flow of attention and psychic energy and it's time to fight back! This book is designed to arm workforce employees, independent professionals, and family managers with simple, yet powerful strategies to defeat the 8 Demons of Distraction. Whatever your special life circumstances, you can use this book to reduce everyday distractions and needless mistakes. Find an in-depth description of each Demon, its sources, and insidious effects. Learn to: reduce distractions, increase productivity, enhance work/life satisfaction, and decrease stress Practical step-by-step strategies will help you rid your life of formidable enemies such as the "Technology Demon," the "Unruly Mind Demon," the "Activities Demon," and five others. Find a research-based, proven plan of attack to decrease stress and increase your daily effectiveness at home and on the job.

Defeating the 8 Demons of Distraction: Proven Strategies to Increase Productivity and Decrease Stress

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