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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
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.2
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8589
ASIN: B002M3SOY2
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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 Not the typical ADHD book October 15, 2009
James Patrick (Madison, WI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I stopped buying ADHD books for some time because I found very little that was new or targeted toward getting things accomplished.
This book spoke to me in ways that other books have not. As someone diagnosed in my mid 30's, I had plenty of time to develop behaviors, strategies, and attitudes that weren't always helpful toward getting things done. This book addresses the dynamics of ADHD behavior and how to tackle them. It's the book I've been looking for over the last 20 years.
While Rately explains her ADHD diagnosis, it is clear, by her writing that she understands ADHD on a personal level. She knows how people with ADHD deceive themselves. She appreciates the problem of memory and how it interferes with long-term goals. The explanation of "premature gratification" and distinguishing planning from doing immediately brought years of struggling into focus.
This book is for those who want to understand their behavior and get things done - and done in priority order. I bought the book because she touched on themes such as honesty, relentlessness, and slowing down that I intuitively know are critical. Rately makes no promises of quick fixes, immediate success, or an easy journey. That in and of itself is refreshing, but her understanding of the dynamics of ADHD when trying to get important things done makes this book invaluable.
I am finding it very useful in developing a plan with my coach.
 So verbose, I was unable to get through it October 3, 2009
Coffee Klatch Reviews (Stockton, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have not been diagnosed with ADHD but often feel that I have many traits of a person with ADHD. I saw this book on the New Books shelf of the library and the front flap and the table of contents both seemed promising. However, after 30 pages of the author telling us how great coaching is and how great self-coaching is I was getting frustrated. It seemed like these pages were the sales pitch the author wrote for the publisher. When are we going to get to the good stuff? I wondered. So I decided to look at the table of contents and skip to chapters like procrastination, time management, etc. Here too, though, were words and words and words that seemed to say nothing. If there is good stuff in this book, I don't have the patience or attention span to get to it.
I wouldn't write off this author. She should simply rearrange the material (assuming that there is good material in here) and put the tips and tricks first thing, and the sales pitch last.
Getting organized September 3, 2009
Arlene Eisenberg (Los Angeles, CA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book contains many very good suggestions on how to organize your life and surroundings if you have ADD. It's a lot to put together, and I haven't done it yet, but I have a feeling some of the ideas will be very helpful to me.
By far the most practical and useful book on ADHD August 13, 2009
Martin J. Hughes (Sunnyvale, California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is by far the most practical and helpful book on ADHD that I have discovered, and I have read many books on the subject.
It provides specific, step by step guidance and coaching to help you live with ADHD and to leverage your thinking style into a fantastically productive life. So many self-help books promise so much. This one actually delivers! I found relevant and useful information for my own life on almost every page of this book. Every page of my copy is covered with my own notes and highlights.
If other books on ADHD have left you feeling somehow unfulfilled, please try this one, you will not be disappointed!
Gave me help... and hope August 4, 2009
A. Bradshaw (San Francisco, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just finished reading The Disorganized Mind and about 3/4 of the book is now dog-eared.
Technically speaking, I don't have ADD/ADHD; I have a brain injury. My attention span and working memory are short and unreliable (at best) and the part of my brain that's in charge of steering me around and getting things done ("executive functions") no longer does its job. So... practically speaking, I experience many ADD "symptoms".
I've tried many types of rehab but have seen little improvement in day-to-day living. This book hit home in so many (MANY!) ways and offered very clear, workable strategies for taking control of specific issues. I really liked the book's explaining:doing ratio. The author offers plenty of insight into why you might be experiencing problem X, without getting bogged down in the whys of it all. For people with a limited attention span, getting to the DO-ing part ASAP is mission critical and the book's author clearly understands that.
For me, the most invaluable part of The Disorganized Mind is the concept of ADD/ADHD coaching. I don't know how it works for "true" ADD/ADHD-ers, but I can read great books all day long and as soon as the book closes - POOF! all that great information is completely lost to me. Never to be thought of again. But having another person play the part of "spare brain" (or attention, or whatever) to help guide me through specific strategies has given me real hope. This is not the only ADD/ADHD book I've read, but it's the only one I can say that about.
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