Please enjoy these ideas gathered from 'The Disorganized Mind. Coaching your ADHD brian to take control of your time, tasks, and talents' by Nancy A. Ratey. Forward by John J. Ratey, co-author of 'Driven to Distraction'  

This truly informative and inspiring book has a lot of great insights and strategies to share. Today I would like to share some great strategies taken from Nancy's chapter on 'Time Mismanagement'. I encourage everyone to check this book out soon to learn more on time and task management and to share it with others.

Hear the Passing of Time
Try wearing a sports watch that is set to beep every hour. You can also use a PDA and consider the vibrating feature if you like a silent alarm instead. This technique will help you become more conscious of time and the length of an hour.

Divide your day into 'Quadrants'
Sometimes too much detailed schedule planning is not the answer. If you don't react well to detailed time management systems try dividing up your day into sections and then plug in a list of a few goals to acomplish in each. For example, these blocks could be 9-11, 11-2 and 2-5.

See both the big and little pictures
Keep a monthly and a weekly calendar. This way you will see the larger picture while still having a view of your more pressing weekly commintments.

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.


Click here to find Ken Robinson on TED.com

and even before that, try watching 'Changing Education Paradigms'  An RSA Animate presentation featuring Sir Ken Robinson and his ideas.
This artistic and thought provoking video gets to the heart of it and will have you riveted, I guarantee it!

1. Choose your best calendar and stick to it  
2. Enter tasks to Tiger Tables or Time Matrix to get priorities in order 
3. Enter all 'important' tasks over 20 minutes to your calendar  
4. Break down larger tasks to smaller bite sized pieces            
5. Create work schedule for each day 
6. Do your best work during times of day you are most creative and focused
7. Time your tasks to get realistic timelines to work within
8. Ensure that 'ALL' tasks & appointments are entered to your lists
9. Determine physical needs for organizing your paperwork and resources
10. Get documents organized into holders and sorters as needed

& Reward yourself along the way!