ADD Coaching - while at the airport!

I am at the airport, and while I am here, thought I would share a few thoughts. Reason I am here on the internet is due to the flight being cancelled. Called a friend and she was asking about my new ADD Coaching skype course on AD/HD Coaching.

In this coaching course, I am obviously going to be doing ADD Coaching! I will cover things like distraction, procrastination, failure to complete tasks, lack of focus, or is it lack of intention? Intention (which is what ADD Coaching is about) is how come attention becomes deficit - i.e. attention deficit disorder!

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The plane arrived sooner than I thought, so had to leave off there! Subsequently I have been to the AD/HD Seminar, it was held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The seminar wasn't actually about ADHD Coaching, but rather about ADHD - about managing ADD whether it is in the family, or if a person has been diagnosed, or simply for parents and teachers who want to know more.

I gave a talk called "My Story, the gifts and disadvantages of ADD". I will write it here, in another post in the next week or so. Again, I mentioned little about ADD Coaching, and more on my story, and I couldn't help myself stopping and comparing the story with a typical ADDers experiences and relating back to ADD Coaching! This is the way forward, not only for the ADD person themself, but for partners, parents, and me too! I wouldn't be without a coach for anything, and sometimes not necessarily an ADHD Coach.

The gifts that I bring up in the ADD Coaching are: the fast thinking, and sometimes 'winging' our conversation when we need to - and mostly under pressure becuase we haven't thought about it until 5 minutes before the event! Others think we are marvellous! That fast thinking can also be an advantage when something goes wrong (like a fire or flood), and the ADD person is able to run different scenarios three times faster than a non-ADD brain. We are great at starting new things, of having grand ideas, of also being friendly and unassuming.

Imagine that - being able to start something, and not having to finish it! You may well say that is impossible - but consider this: you pay someone to do it for you! Or you do somehting that does not require finishing, like a Star!