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The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents | 
| Author: Nancy A. Ratey
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 4071
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0312355335
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
Wish I had more time to really absorb all this info.! May 2, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am too busy and too disorganized to take adequate time to take in everything this book shares.
Groundbreaking Self Coaching Guide April 26, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a groundbreaking coaching book. Nancy speaks to readers directly and guides them step by step with self-coaching strategies that can be implemented immediately. She inspires the reader by telling her own story, and shares success stories of clients who have been coached with her unique model. Readable, enjoyable and user-friendly.
A life changer April 20, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As a senior executive transition coach for 14 years, I happen to work with a number of clients with ADHD. In this business, the coach's success is largely dependant on their ability to affect sustainable attitudinal and behavioral changes. If done right it can change lives. Nancy has done it right! The Disorganized Mind is brilliantly simple and actionable. Few books are so clearly written and catered the individual reader so personally. I believe Nancy's book will change lives.
Not Just Another 5-Star Book on ADHD April 12, 2008
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Nancy's book is a quick and easy read without being shallow or overly simple. It shows both how and why (self-)coaching can help an adult with ADHD come closer to realizing their full potential. It is hopeful and realistic with a plethora of concrete tips and strategies. Along the way it subtly but surely gives a good overview of daily life with ADHD. It even does the seemingly-impossible: It shows how someone for whom structure and consistency come unnaturally can create just enough of both to be liberating and supportive rather than restrictive and confining. Finally, it is one of the few books to explain some of the key do's and don'ts(!) of supporting an adult with ADHD. Highly recommended. Go. Read. Do.
Hope for control April 7, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
In "the Disorganized Mind," Nancy Ratey convinces the reader that an Adult with ADHD can gain control over his or her brain and actually enjoy life rather than feel overwhelmed by it. This hopeful message comes by way of personal narrative, detailed descriptions of how coaching works, and client accounts. Ratey provides the reader with a philosophical foundation of coaching - not only by description but by reflections on coaching from early life. She offers the reader a clever and simple way to remember the steps required for deep change, an acronym for six vital steps of coaching. Forms and questionnaires help the reader get through the steps. In the five client accounts, a progression of change occurs for common ADHD challenges: time mismanagement, procrastination, distractibility, impulsivity, and transitions. Each account explores the nature of the challenge, strategies that work, and coaching application along the six vital steps of coaching. All through each account, Ratey reminds the reader of the basic tenets of coaching. She also reiterates the need for commitment and patience for the process of growth. Toward the end of the book, more strategies- strategies for the home environment, spiritual and mental wellness, physical health, living/working with someone with ADHD. Ratey covers every base - truly fulfilling her statement that coaching is holistic. In the end, I am convinced that coaching is a universal phenomenon that an individual with ADHD must undertake for optimal perspective and success. Though Ratey is clear that the process of change through coaching is not easy, the chapters relay hope with sobriety. I would recommend this book to all adults (and significant others) dealing with ADHD - whether being coached or wanting to coach themselves. Also recommended to coaches as a guide and an affirmation of a practice that does help individuals with ADHD take control of time, tasks, and talents.
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