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ADHD Awareness Week 2010

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September 12 – 18, 2010 is ADHD Awareness Week.  The theme of this year’s campaign is ADHD is Real!  There is Hope!  Where’s the Help? And I am so proud to be part of it.

As an Attention and ADHD Coach, my goal is to help you, my clients, overcome and manage your specific attention challenges while focusing on the goals that are important to you.  To help support your quest to learn and accomplish more, check out a few of these wonderful resources!

http://adhdawareness2010.org A collaborative effort of the ADHD Coaches Organization, CHADD, ADDA and ADDitude Magazine.  Download a poster that you can post at your business, school or community location.

http://adhdexpo.com An on-line ADHD Expo where you can research various resources and find support.  Look for the classes and chats coming up!

Turmoil to Tranquility:  Helping Students with ADHD Achieve More If you live in the Metro Detroit area, please join me Tuesday, September 14, 2010 from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Eastern for this interactive workshop at the Birmingham Community House.  Registration details are on the right side of this page.

Twitter Chat with @CoachForADHD and @TheCoffeeKlatch:  Join us Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m Eastern for the #tck Twitter Chat.  Our focus will be ADHD Awareness Week!

Leave a comment or contact me if you have any questions or further ideas about how we can increase ADHD Awareness!

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Be Realistic for SMART goals that get Results

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Over the last few weeks, I have been discussing the importance of setting SMART goals. If you haven’t already done so, be sure to check out Mid-year Tune Up, Set Specific SMART Goals, Measure for SMARTer Goals and Achievable, Ambitious, ADHD or Attention – what does the A mean in SMART Goals. They will all get you motivated to work on improving your goals!

It is time to discuss the R in SMART goals. The R stands for Realistic, and it is so important to be realistic when you are setting your goals. If your ADHD tends to make you impulsive, it is especially important for you to focus on setting realistic goals. You can help prevent yourself from setting goals that may set yourself up for failure. Being realistic, you can help push yourself towards success in smaller increments.

When developing your goals, always start with a draft and use the SMART methodology to refine them. For R, consider your goals and think about whether they are realistic. The following questions can help you evaluate them:

  • How likely am I to achieve the goal?
  • How can I split the goal in to smaller, more realistic steps?
  • What would make this goal more achievable?

After answering these three questions and revising your goals, I am confident you will end up with more realistic goals that you can achieve with huge success! What other questions do you ask to ensure your goals are realistic? Leave a comment and let us know how you are doing with your goals!

Look for the importance of timely goals later this week!

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Achievable, Ambitious, ADHD or Attention – what does the A mean in SMART Goals?

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I hope you are learning from the series of blog posts on SMART goal setting.  The goal setting part of the ADHD coaching process is critical to achieving your goals. Last week, I wrote about setting Specific and Measurable goals.  The A in SMART goals is a little harder to capture because it can really stand for a few different concepts.  I think they all have validity and usefulness for my attention and ADHD coaching clients, but don’t take my word for it.  Keep reading and let us know your input by leaving a comment.

Achievable:  Goals need to be achievable.  Many times, my new clients are frustrated because they have been unable to meet their goals.  As we talk, I learn that their goals are often set in a manner that makes them unachievable.  As you probably know, this can be frustrating.  When looking at your goals, look at them to make sure they are achievable.  If they do not seem achievable, I encourage you break them into smaller steps.  For example, it may not be achievable to get your entire house organized in the next week.  You can, however, get one specific area of your house organized in the next week.

Ambitious:  Your goals need to be ambitious to move you forward in the spirit of continuous improvement.  Without ambition behind the goal, you may not achieve anything new or implement real change with your goal. This may sound counterintuitive to the idea that goals need to be achievable.  I propose that you can meet both aspects as long as you consider both of them.

ADHD and Attention:  I bet this is the first time anyone proposed ADHD and Attention as the A for SMART goals!  If you are setting goals to overcome your ADHD or other attention challenges, be sure that they are addressing the challenges you want to overcome or the behaviors you want to change.

To summarize, you can cover all of the potential A’s by answering the question, “How will the Achievement of this Ambitious goal help me overcome my ADHD and/or Attention challenges?”  What do you think?

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