Diary of our “Focus, Control, & Balance” Live Retreat

May 7, 2013 by 4 Comments
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Diary of our Focus, Control, & Balance Live Retreat: mark kawate Marcia Hoeck Jacqueline Sinfield Inn on Ferry Street entrepreneurs with ADHD business owners with ADHD ADHD business retreat ADHD & business ADHD ADD by Jacqueline Sinfield

Tuesday, April 30th
12 noon
Flew from Montreal to Detroit. It was a painless flight, no delays or hold ups . . . even my suitcase got there safely.

6 pm
Marcia met me at the Detroit airport and we ran errands. We bought gifts for our retreat participants as well as water and tons of apples for refreshments. We both were excited, because our first ever live event was just days away after 6 months of planning!!

8 pm
Arrived at Marcia’s home and I saw Todd (Marcia’s husband) for the first time after his quadruple bypass heart surgery. Despite it only being 6 days after the operation he was doing really well. I also got to see [Read more...]

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Why Celebrating is Vital as an ADHD Biz Owner

March 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Why Celebrating is Vital as an ADHD Biz Owner : success self talk Marcia Hoeck Jacqueline Sinfield celebrating success ADHD ADD Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard brain scientist, was just 37 years old when she suffered a stroke. It took her 8 years to make a full recovery and she documented the process in the book,  My Stroke of Insight. Jill had to learn all the basics again, like how to sit up, walk, talk, and feed herself.

This inspirational book has some amazing pearls of wisdom. One is to celebrate EVERY achievement, no matter what the size. I would love all business owners with ADHD to  adopt this principle.

Jill didn’t say, “Oh, I can sit up on my own now, big deal, I could do that when I was one year old.” That would have been discouraging after all the mental and [Read more...]

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Start the New Year with Positive Changes to Your ADHD Health

January 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Start the New Year with Positive Changes to Your ADHD Health: Marcia Hoeck Jacqueline Sinfield healthy ADHD habits change habits ADHD self care ADHD health ADHD ADD The start of a New Year usually brings an enthusiasm to look at yourself, your life, and your business. You can reflect back and see what is working, what isn’t, and make some positive changes. While there’s a lot of research to show that New Year’s resolutions don’t work, there’s also plenty of evidence that creating habits and setting goals DO work.

Make an easy change

Instead of making New Year’s resolutions this year, why not make some positive changes using goals and habits in your life? If you aren’t sure what area to address, I suggest starting [Read more...]

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How Can I Improve My Executive Functions? Part 2

December 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Today we had the second part of our executive functions subject. Even though research has found executive functions don’t work as well in adults with ADHD, there are lots of things to can do and have in your environment to support yourself so you can thrive in your business and in life.

If you missed this special program, or want to listen to it again, click on the link below to download the MP3:
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We gave you tips on:

  • emotional control
  • enduring frustration, thinking prior to speaking or taking action [Read more...]
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How Can I Improve My Executive Functions?

December 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Executive functions are high-level cognitive processes that take place without us having to think about them. There is a growing amount of research showing that adults with ADHD have a weakness in how the executive functions work. But don’t be alarmed, there is lots you can do to help yours so you can still excel.

If you missed this special program, or want to listen to it again, click on the link below to download the MP3:

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On today’s call, we talked about what exactly executive functions are, and then went into detail on the following four (we will cover the others in our next call):

We gave you tips on:

  • Working memory and recall
  • Keeping facts in mind, manipulating information, and retrieving stored data from long-term memory

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How to Deal with Unsupportive Family and Friends

November 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Yesterday’s call was all about how to deal with unsupportive family and friends, when you have a business and ADHD. Here’s what Brenda had to say about this call:

“Phenomenal call! Your calls are what help me more than anything — to know that someone understands me, even if I don’t remember all of the strategies. You guys help me keep my sanity.”

If you missed this special program, or want to listen to it again, click on the link below to download the MP3:
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Marcia and I covered lots of points, including these listed below. As always, Marcia shared her tips as a business coach and as someone who fairly recently discovered she has ADHD. My tips and suggestions come from my years of coaching ADHD adults, and the solutions I found worked for my dyslexic brain.

We gave you tips on:

  • How separate what other people think you should do from what you know is right for you.
  • How to ignore unsupportive family and friends so they don’t affect your business. [Read more...]
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How to Improve Communication to Build Strong Relationships

November 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Thank you to everyone who joined us live yesterday for our “Improving Communication” program. We were very pleased there were no technical hitches this week!

If you missed this special program, or want to listen to it again, click on the link below to download the MP3:
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The call was all about how to improve communication when you have ADHD and your own business.

We gave you tips on:

• How to ‘look’ like you’re listening to the people your life, even if you can’t maintain total focus

• How to stop talking and listen, even though you think you know what the person is going to say

• What to do if you interrupt people because you get ideas, and think if you don’t say it now you will forget  [Read more...]

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ADHD in Business Survey Results: What Are You Most Interested in, As an Entrepreneur with ADHD?

October 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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In Monday’s call, Marcia and I shared the results of our ADHD in Business Survey! If you think that sounds boring . . . it wasn’t. Participants loved the survey (so did Marcia and I), and they gave us wonderful feedback.

If you missed this special program, or want to listen to it again, click on the link below to download the MP3:

 

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As well as sharing the results about what you’d like us to focus on, we also read some comments and questions you left in the open-ended sections of the survey. We couldn’t answer every one, but were able to answer some that stood out to us, such as:

• Where do your ideas come from?

• How did you start forgiving yourself for making so many ADHD mistakes? [Read more...]

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Take Control of Worry

October 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Today, Marcia and I talked about worry.

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
— Leo Buscaglia

Did you know that ADDers worry more than the average person? And that the very same traits that make you an entrepreneur also make you a great worrier?

If you missed this special program, or want to listen to it again, click on the link below to download the MP3:

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When you are smart, creative, and imaginative, you can come up with great business ideas — but you can also conjure up worst-case scenarios. AND your busy ADD brain keeps playing them over and over in your head.

In the call today, we shared tips for controlling your worries so you can keep your worrying to a minimum and enjoy your life and your business. [Read more...]

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How Shame Affects Your Business Success

September 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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How Shame Affects Your Business Success: Welcome to our first newsletter after our August break!

Back to school has come and gone and its officially autumn now. Summer seems a distant memory already!! Thank goodness for photos.

Here’s one of Marcia and me during time we spent together at Marcia’s cottage last month. I’m wearing jeans to protect my legs from more insect bites — apparently I am very tasty.

While we were together, we planned lots of exciting things for Working with ADHD, the first one being a survey. Have you taken it? If not, then we would love it so much if you could. It only takes a few minutes:

Click here to take the survey now.

Enjoy today’s article . . . it’s all about feeling shame, and how not to let it get the best of you.

Wishing you a wonderful week!

How Shame Affects Your Business Success:

 

 

 

How Shame Affects Your Business Success

Shame is one of those topics people hate to talk about. Unfortunately, shame and ADHD often go hand in hand.

Many ADDers feel ashamed of themselves and their behavior. Both of what they did or didn’t do. They feel they aren’t good enough and don’t match society’s crazy ‘norms’. However, like anything, when you address it head on, it isn’t nearly bad as you thought.

Shame affects all areas of your life

When you feel ashamed of who you are, it affects all areas of your life — the quality of your relationships, your health, and your business.

How does it do that? Well, when you feel shame about yourself, you [Read more...]

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