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The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancy A. Ratey
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0312355335
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8589
EAN: 9780312355333
ASIN: 0312355335
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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For the millions of adults diagnosed with ADHD The Disorganized Mind will provide expert guidance on what they can do to make the most of their lives. The inattention, time-mismanagement, procrastination, impulsivity, distractibility, and difficulty with transitions that often go hand-in-hand with ADHD can be overcome with the unique approach that Nancy Ratey brings to turning these behaviors around. The Disorganized Mind addresses the common issues confronted by the ADHD adult:
“Where did the time go?”
“I’ll do it later, I always work better under pressure anyway.”
“I’ll just check my e-mail one more time before the meeting…”
“I’ll pay the bills tomorrow – that will give me time to find them.” Professional ADHD coach and expert Nancy Ratey helps readers better understand why their ADHD is getting in their way and what they can do about it. Nancy Ratey understands the challenges faced by adults with ADHD from both a personal and professional perspective and is able to help anyone move forward to achieve greater success. Many individuals with ADHD live in turmoil. It doesn’t have to be that way. You can make choices and imagine how things can change – this book will teach you how. By using ADHD strategies that have worked for others and will work for you, as well as learning how to organize, plan, and prioritize, you’ll clear the hurdles of daily living with a confidence and success you may never before have dreamed possible. Nancy Ratey has the proven strategies that will help anyone with ADHD get focused, stay on track, and get things done - and finally get what they want from their work and their life. For information and resources, please visit www.nancyratey.com
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Outstanding Resource! July 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As an AD/HD Coach and Family Team Builder I have to say this is a terrific resource for Coaches as well as AD/HD Sufferers themselves! All the important information is there and easily available to the reader. Specific and immediately useful action steps are clearly outlined and presented in a way that makes sense to the brain with AD/HD.
My only "fear" is that it may take away some of my clients who may want to take charge of their own treatment. They really could do it with this book!
Of course, that's our goal, to get our clients to make it on their own, and Nancy's book will do just that!
I'll be getting several for gifting and using and have recommended it to my clients.
 I truly found this book limited and limiting June 17, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I am familiar with nearly every popular book written on the subject of ADD/ADHD, and I have to state I did not particularly like this one. I make the proviso that if you are newly diagnosed with ADD (and I'll assume it's an accurate diagnosis), and you don't know anything about the syndrome from a factual perspective or are not clear about the nature of or the way to address your own behaviors, perceptions, and thoughts, I suppose this book is OK. However, if you read it from cover to cover, it is, to me, quite paradoxical. Here's briefly why. The author provides so many behavioral suggestions--both technological (external) and cognitively-based (internal)--that to set up an environment to accommodate them all would be impossible. Notes on your computer, timers, signs, noises, reminders, calendars, diaries: the list goes on. Although the author begins by stating you have to find your own means to organize your life, this recommendation is soon swallowed up by a cacaphony of suggestions that no working person, at least, could follow. Another problem I found is that the book is very proscriptive regarding what is 'normal.' For example, if you have ADD and have a penchant for going into narratives instead of getting to the point, well, there's a mental reminder to change your communication style. But maybe the narrative IS an essential part of the point.
I understand that the book is meant for the educated, affluent (the author states that these make up the bulk of her clientele) and therefore must conform to a corporate style of managerial behavior, but there's too much and/or thinking in the suggestions. A book can be written that way, but a life is rarely lived that way. Anyone who works with others knows the best time managers are at the mercy of the unexpected. Things break down, people break down, society changes, politics change constantly. The idea of 'future shock' that has been around for maybe 40 years (?) suggested that things occur so rapidly in our culture, you cannot keep up with them. If you agree that everyone is in that situation, then certainly a series of behavioral/cognitive cues is not going to do much to alleviate the relentless march of information and the drive for improvement. A newer phenomenon--which is the growing isolation of the individual (think of the book 'Bowling Alone' that showed that statistically most people in bowling alleys are bowling by themselves)--belies the idea of finding a friend/relative to serve as an informal 'coach.' I can just imagine calling up any number of acquaintances and saying, "By the way, would you mind having a 10-minute phone discussion every night about 8 so I can get a reality check on my ADD?" I don't know about the authors' social network or yours, but the people I know sure wouldn't be too keen on the idea. It's hard enough for family members to even see one another considering our overloaded schedules. I'll stop here; I could probably write a book in response to this one, but I'm not getting paid--unlike the author.
One more thing, though, has there ever been an objective study to test empirically whether coaching (either by an ADD coach or self-coaching) for someone with ADD works? You know, double blind research between a control group and a treatment group? Or as people in the field like to say, evidence-based success in treatment? I said I'd stop. OK. There's some great books available that address the issues in this book although they're not necessarily for people with ADD.
NOTE: A number of people have asked about recommended books/materials. I'll give a few here, since an entire list would take a bit of time, but perhaps I can get to it soon. I am not connected in any business way to any of them:
I highly recommend 'The Creative Habit' by Twyla Tharp, a renowned choreographer. Read the book and I think you will find out why I think it's great. I also recommend 'The War of Art' by Steve Pressfield, which is a book about writing and creativity, but again, it really can be applied to focusing, distraction, life style, etc. Pressfield is a novelist; his most famous book is probably 'The Legend of Bagger Vance.' Then you could try 'Stop Whining...' by L. Winget (not the whole title but it's here on Amazon). This book is a bit harsh but I think has some good points. Here is a management consultant who says that time management is an illusion, and explains why. I would also recommend 'Man's Search for Meaning' by Victor Frankl, or any of his other books. He is a man who survived Auschwitz, and knows something about coping in a harsh environment. He re-popularized the expression-attributed to Nietzche, "He who has a 'why' to live can live with any 'how.' In terms of a 'technology', you can find a free planner if you search the net and type in 'emergent time management.' You can print out as many copies as you want and create your own planner. The concept behind this simple planner is that what one does and what happens to someone during the course of the day will decide how you spend the rest of the day. It's a heuristic concept, and you just start with 3 things you need to accomplish and try to complete them. As you go through the day, you add things based on new developments. There's even a section of each page for 'doodling.' That's it for now. Sorry for any typos. I'm running late (but having fun doing so ;)
Sandy Corbin :Senior Certified ADD/ADHD Coach and Teacher. MOM of ADHD Teen girl and woman with ADHD June 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a GREAT BOOK on so many levels!!!!!
As A Coach, I find this book extremely useful as an introductory tool for Coaching. I use it to help educate my clients about what I will be doing with them, and as a Coach, I utilize as much of Nancy's forms and/or ideas as I can especially when I feel I am stumped and need a path to venture down.
As a Mom with a teen going to college , I find this book a life saver.
I gave my daughter a copy of the book to use to Coach herself!
She has been diagnosed with ADHD and since 2nd grade has learned about ADHD, Coaching, by watching me, and by attending many CHADD conferences and work shops. From all this, she has developed her own learning system and methods for handling her own ADHD.
Yet, there are always those situations which pop up which pose problems she is totally unprepared for, and
this fall, her first semester in college, will pose such an obstacle.
Being the strong minded young woman that she is , my daughter loves using this book and being her Own Coach. OMG!
Nancy provides charts, and walks you through how to do Coaching on your own!
My daughter likes and uses most of the things Nancy supplies, and what she doesn't like, using this book provides her with the spring board by which she is able to create her own forms and tools. It empowers her, and she loves not having to go "SEE" someone. By this age, she is totally tested out, psyched out and done with other people telling her what to do.
Which is another plus!!!!, Teens who like being their own boss, now have a structure devised for them by an experienced successful Coach by which to follow or model to devise their own system.
Finally, I find this book helpful for the clients I am currently coaching.
I can use this book with my clients something as an easy reference tool should they forget or not understand an idea, or just need more time to digest a concept, we may have just spent time coaching around.
Though Nancy has her own Coaching method, her own vibrant style, basically the "process" she follows, the way she empowers her clients, and the information regarding ADD/ADHD issues are still fundamentally the same as what other ADD/ADHD coaches are employing.
So, a Coach, no matter their style, may still incorporate the use of Nancy's book in conjunction their own Coaching to help make ideas more concrete and clear for their clients.
Moreover, anyone can thumb through Nancy's book and understand what the purpose of coaching is, as it offers some valuable information along with tools for improvement with the issues surrounding the ADD/ADHD mind.
This book as become one of my very valuable tools that I am quick to introduce my clients to and give away.
Thank you Nancy!
!!!!!! This book should have a place next to the family Bible. May 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is for ANYONE! It's not just for people diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. Male or female, young or old, organized or disorganized, you will see yourself in this book. No matter who you are reading this book, Nancy Ratey knows you and understands you better than you know yourself. I've told so many friends about "The Disorganized Mind," because I don't know anyone that shouldn't buy it! Nancy's own diagnosis of ADHD, her upbringing with her military father, her struggles academically, her eventual educational successes; and not to mention, being married to husband,John Ratey, M.D., who wrote three books on distraction, qualifies her beyond and back!!!! You have to be trained and coached to do just about everything in life. To play a sport requires training and coaching, to learn Algebra requires training and coaching from a qualified teacher, to start a new job of any kind requires training and coaching (coaching, as far as, "yeah, you're doing a good job, you're ready for the next level"); therefore, when ADD/ADHD is getting in the way, Nancy Ratey's coaching strategies are the answer.
Wish I had more time to really absorb all this info.! May 2, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am too busy and too disorganized to take adequate time to take in everything this book shares.
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