Visited Nancy Ratey's website and linked to her blog here on Blogger! Actually found additional links to YouTube to view a couple of interviews with Nancy. One was done at the 2011 CHADD Conference held at Disney World. I suspect this was the interview she was doing prior to the dinner, which I was so generously invited to by Nancy, with her Mom, assistant Jessie, and four other friends (fellow coaches) at The Wave Restaurant there at The Contemporary. As we waited for Nancy to join us and the question was asked as to her whereabouts, Jessie explained that she was doing an interview with someone. BINGO! I think this was it! : )
Her blog for Tuesday, October 4, 2011 couldn't have been more perfect to encourage me on to my New Year 'Intentions': Get Your House in Order; how perfect! God continues to prove that His timing is always right in my life.
After reading her blog I linked to the video interviews and heard a tip which I haven't previously. Nancy suggests printing out a whole year's calendar to be viewed daily. As the day comes to an end mark through that day as 'a done deal' leaving a visual of the remainder of the week/month/year yet to come.
Nancy puts it this way: "People have a hard time seeing themselves in time and space so a lot of times I have them think of each day of the week as a 'domino'. Each domino is an action. If you say "yes" or "no" to one action on one day (say Tuesday) what consequence will that action have on a project that is due, say on Thursday (or whatever day). Every choice that we make has an impact on the next hour, the next day."
She goes on to explain the usefulness of a full year calendar, which she encourages should be a simple matter of printing off monthly calendars from one of many available websites, pasted in order of month to a large display backing then placed on the wall (or any place) where you will visit it daily. This 'visual time marker' will be helpful in reminding you of the time available for intended projects. As each day, then each month that has passed is marked through this will serve those of us with AD/HD as a necessary reminder of available time of which we are so often blissfully unaware.
That is until...REALITY DAWNS and we can't understand where the time has gone! PANIC sets in and we hate ourselves for our ineptitude. But Nancy is quick to remind us in her October blog that there is No Time for Shame:
"The only way to truly overcome the "messy closet" syndrome is to come out of the
closet! That means accepting that your struggles are not a character flaw. It's not you;
it's your ADHD. This doesn't mean, however, that you don't have to take responsibility
for doing something about it. In order to take the first step you must acknowledge it's a
problem and stop blaming yourself."
My enthusiasm is bolstered by this new tool: The Yearly Calendar 'Visual Time Minder' (self-titled)!
Time to get busy creating and assembling!
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