How ADHD Affects Home Organization: Understanding the Role of the 8 Key Executive Functions of the Mind

Do you walk in a room to organize and find yourself paralyzed and overwhelmed? Do you find yourself spending money on organizing solutions that don't work? Do you feel like you put in effort but never make any progress? Or maybe you know exactly what you want to do, and yet for some reason, you just can't get started. That means: Understanding how your mind works Recognizing your strengths and weaknesses Finding the strategies that work for you In her latest book, Lisa Woodruff explores the executive functions of the mind that directly affect your ability to organize your home: flexible thinking, working memory, self-monitoring, task initiation, planning, and organization. And having ADHD doesn't make it any easier. But it doesn't have to be impossible. Organizing isn't easy. As a professional organizer, productivity coach, and former teacher, Lisa Woodruff knows that organization is more than just 15-minute daily tasks or cute ways to use fun containers. Along the way, she provides tips and strategies for overcoming obstacles - tools you can use to get the organized house you've been

Worth it Some great tips and apps. Definitely learned a few things I can apply to my life and to my teen son's life as well. Definitely worth the time to read it.. Clarity, support, and guidance on every page! Kathy Vines, CPO® How does someone without ADHD write a book that is completely relatable to those who have it? She gives clear explanations, real-world examples, and a solution or resource on just about every page. When an organized person wants to help disorganized people, we need to get fluent in their language. And there are a thousand dialects of the language of the disorganized. T. Horne said "How ADHD affects Home Organization" gives you the what, where, why and how of organizing with ADHD.. Many organizational programs are laid out so detailed that I get lost in the steps. I would start going all out and then end up in even more chaos than before I began the program. Lisa's book "How ADHD affects Home Organization" and her podcasts on the same topic helped me understand what the problems of ADHD and organizing are, where I might be struggling, why I st