Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 3rd Edition offers cutting-edge strategies for anyone who wants to improve their physical space, time management, and peace of mind.
This revised and updated version also includes helpful assessments of the latest digital tools for organization and new research on the ADHD brain.
About 4.4% of the adult population—over 13 million Americans—have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD.) Yet four out of every five are not even aware of it, and how it can affect their professional and personal lives if not managed well. Written by professional organizer Susan Pinsky, Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 3rd Edition outlines a practical life management approach that emphasizes easy maintenance techniques and maximum efficiency, catering to the specific needs of the ADHD population.
Divided into two easy-to-read sections, the first covering this life-changing new method and the second showing how to implement it in each part of the home, Susan’s practical solutions address the most common organizing dilemmas among her ADHD clientele, while also drawing on her own personal experience as the mother of a child with ADHD.
The projects section, organized by the type of room or task, consists of practical organizing solutions for people living with ADHD:
At work: prioritizing, time management, and organizing documentsAt home: paying bills on time, decluttering your house, scheduling and keeping appointmentsWith kids: driving them to various activities, grocery shopping and meals, laundry, babysitters, organizing drawers and closetsAt leisure: organizing time for your social life, gym, and various other hobbies and activities
Color photographs are featured throughout, as well as sidebars and testimonials from adults with ADHD, providing numerous organizational tips, such as the importance of dividing time into minutes or moments, task completion, how to avoid procrastination, asking for help, and minimizing unnecessary stuff.
Get your life in order with this witty and sympathetic guide to organization.
ASIN : B0BT86X32Q
Publisher : Fair Winds Press
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : May 16, 2023
Language : English
File size : 13.0 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 223 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0760381632
Page Flip : Enabled
Chelsea –
My favorite resource book
Seriously my new favorite book. Myself and kids are all neurodivergent so it’s been great to set our house more conducive to us. Even my neurological hubby has found it useful.
Devin –
The key to efficiency
I feel so validated! Iâve only been reading it for a week, have implemented some changes, and am already noticing results. She unlocks the key to efficiency!
Kendra Indeed –
Gaining knowledge, not motivation
I’ve read through it and learned a lot of the “why” reasons and solutions for many things like when the coats get dropped on the floor instead of the hook 3 feet above it and what to do about it. It also talks about if you have a large family of mixed ADHD and normals. I did not notice any notes about ADHD and OCD families. I didn’t realize we had someone dealing with OCD until very recently. I’ve had this book for a couple or few months and I was able to use it to reorganize my kitchen, my medicine cabinets, and got halfway through my children’s bathroom. On my own with 4 kids in the home. So I feel like this would be great if I had a week with some motivated adults to help and ship the kids off for that time and we could fix the whole house. But I cannot make that happen at this time so I was a little hard on myself when I optimistically thought all of the suggestions made sense and that I could execute them. Nope. I still have ADHD so it’s still really hard and I would need help that I don’t have at this time for this book to help me the way I wanted it to. But if you are buying this because your children or spouse have ADHD and you want to help manage their chaos, you can probably pull a lot from this. But you have to be willing to not be a perfectionist and not want that magazine perfect home organization. This helps you set up your home to have things where they can be found and managed by ADHD members who have stuff trailed everywhere and no system has worked for you yet. Due to the severity of my ADHD as the mom with children with ADHD and a child with OCD, I’ve set up therapy sessions for a little bit of guidance how OCD will play into our chaos, and I am in the process of switching medications around so I can be on real ADHD stimulant medications before I can make this book really work. But I’m looking forward to gaining enough mental function to utilize it in the future.
Toni-Jan I. –
Best book for ADHD organization simple and straightforward
As a mom and wife with ADHD in an ADHD household this book was exactly what we needed!!Has a principled approach and is very compassionate with the methodology
Danae_say –
Like your fav picture book
Great book. I finally ordered it after renewing it at the library like 10 times, lol. It was well put together, like a childrenâs picture book for adults.
Heather Worthington –
I lost the book
I can only give this a 3 stars. As soon as I bought the book I misplaced it. So much for organizing
Clara Maria –
i always recommend this book
It is a new way to think about cleaning and making your space work for you and not the other way around. Really great tool for anyone with a disability not just adhd, and for their family members, anyone can benefit from making this philosophical switch in their cleaning/organizing habits
Mary –
invaluable
I found this book invaluable for setting up simple systems to keep house with adhd. It is probably the most helpful book I’ve read on the topic and I’ve already implemented some strategies in my bathroom to make my life easier. It has also given me a look back on my childhood and a way to understand my kids and their struggles and given me ways to help them. The editing was imperfect but I am not going to downrate the book for it. For example the book mentions the sticky finger method and how useful it is but then doesn’t actually tell us what it actually is. This is an exception- it really doesn’t happen elsewhere in the book. And I am grateful to have read this book. It has given me a lot to consider and I have a lot of “brutal purging” to do.
Fannie Fortier-Tougas –
Read so many books on organization. None of them were as helpful as this one.
Debi J –
I have read SO many books on organization. Watched so many YouTube videos. Read so many blogs.But still I could never seem to actually impliment the various techniques. It was heartbreaking to always be disorganized despite trying so hard.Then I found this book. I read it first on Kindle Unlimited, then bought a physical copy because it was so useful.This book offers ideas and solution that make sense! Instead of trying to create storage solutions that look pretty, it offers ones that actually work everyday.I have already implimented lots of them, and yes, they do work!For example, I used to keep my various hats in my bedroom. They were in a nice box, and this seemed a good storage solution. But I was always forgetting to put them back in there. So when I wanted a hat… I had no idea where it actually was.I take my hats off when I come in the door. So that is where, according to the book, they should live. Now my summer cap is hanging on a hook in my porch. When I come home, I hang it there. And I can grab it when I go back out. My rain hat and sun hat are also there. In the winter I will swap them for my bobble and other winter hats.I forgot to hang the cap up a couple of times, but I soon got into the habit. Clearly this makes far more sense than storing them in the bedroom! Why didn’t I think of this??I am so grateful to the author of this book. I will never be super-organized, I know that. But at last I am actually making some headway. Thank you!
Family Man –
About 1/3 of the way in I noticed the varying fonts. Very clever in keeping the adhd mind interested (novelty). Also the repetition in smaller chunks, absolutely tailored to our minds.Then thereâs the concrete practical and precise advice, such as how many bins, which type of container, and why good enough is fine.Encouragement to do things the way that suits you and not âsocietyâ or how we would have learnt in our childhood, at school or in an NT home.Though I personally have a strong liking for pretty and aesthetical solutions, I understand the push for efficiency over design and will take this on board while continuing my decluttering/sort-my-life-out adventure.As other readers have mentioned, I too couldnât find the meaning of the Sticky Fingersâ method, so if anyone knows what this is, please share.All in all a very good and helpful book written by someone who clearly has a lot of knowledge and experience of adhd.Thank you 🙂
shortybooty –
I love this book, which is no non sense, practical, down to earth and above all ADHD friendly and it has pictures of before and after who help to visualise. Organized by room. I even prefer this one over ” add ways to Organize your life” by Nadeau and Kolberg which is very good, and helped me a lot but is more for ADDers who don’t mind reading.They both complement each other, and have the same thickness.
K. Gladwin –
Easy to read and digestible ideas. Many ideas will help any home whether you have people with ADHD or not. For me recently diagnosed with ADHD at 56, it gave me some new ideas to try and gave me some validation for things I have been doing on my own as now I can see why they work. It helped me explain some things to others I live with about why some things in our home work and why somethings I never seem to be able to do. Looking forward to more organised home for all of us. I wish it just a step or two further with ideas, as some things were just obvious if you have lived with ADHD for any length of time.