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    ADD and Nutrition: Can You Get To The Finish Line?

    ByMarla Cummins ADHD Treatment Options, Blog

    When you do not eat properly you lose focus and find it hard to attend. Sounds familiar? Like other self care issues, lack of a proper diet can worsen an already compromised executive function system for an ADDer. Likewise, a balanced diet can help you in these areas. Common wisdom suggest and studies have shown that consuming the recommended amount of protein can help you to be more alert. Also, there is anecdotal evidence to suggest that taking Omega 3 can help you focus better. At the same time, eating too many carbohydrates can lead to increased tiredness. The bottom line is that the dietary needs and impact of different foods and supplements is going to change from person to person. For more detailed advice…

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    Entrepreneurs and ADD: Are Your Business Relationships Working?

    ByMarla Cummins ADHD Communication, Blog

    When you are a small business owner / entrepreneur with ADD the way in which your ADD symptoms manifest themselves can absolutely have a positive effect on your relationships with others. You may be outgoing and able to talk to many different people, for example. This ability allows you to easily integrate into a variety of social and business situations which may serve you well in building and sustaining your business. However, many of you recognize that, depending on the context, your ADD symptoms may also prove to be a challenge in creating the types of quality relationships upon which the success of your business rest. While the degree to which you can choose with whom you want to create business relationships varies depending on…

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    ADD – ADHD: Do You Want To Be More Awake?

    ByMarla Cummins ADHD Treatment Options, Blog

      Occasionally, I will provide a recording of my post in order to provide the information in a format that is as accessible to as many people as possible. My goal is always to help you learn and apply the information in whatever way is most useful to you. Toward that end, I have also included a link to a PDF of the transcript. If I can do anything else to help, please let me know Hello and Welcome! I am Marla Cummins of Cummins Coaching Training. I had such a great response to including audio along with a transcript in my last posting and newsletter. I’m glad that you found it helpful. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help…

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    AD/HD and Doing It Your Own Way…

    ByMarla Cummins ADHD Symptoms & Diagnosis, Blog

      The quote below, which was sent to me from a client, serves a powerful reminder of the power of perseverance, as well as the need to find your own way to accomplish what is important to you. …every now and then even streams and rivers have incredibly tough obstacles between their starting points and where they want to meander (like mountains!) but over the years they just keep on chipping away and turning and finding other ingenious ways to access where they’re going. So I’m not fluid like an established flowing river, but I’m slowly carving out a crooked sort of flow… Ok off to do some eroding. As the above quote suggest, by taking into consideration your areas of weakness and strength in…

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    Are You Really Going To Do That?

    ByMarla Cummins ADHD Time Management, Blog

    One of my promises to my clients is that I will remind them of what is important to them when they forget. I keep track of their “larger life goals,” as well as the daily tasks that they need to accomplish in order to reach these goals. Most people want to live a balanced life, which includes having fun. Summer is a time that many people look forward to as a time to travel, explore locally and enjoy various outdoor activities. While it has been raining for almost two straight weeks here in Boston, I still know that it is summer. In fact, I also know that there are 73 days until Labor Day, which in the States is often recognized as the end of summer. So,…

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    Do You Want To Know How Stop Procrastinating and Start Exercising?

    ByMarla Cummins ADHD Treatment Options, Blog

    For many of us, it is the lack of motivation that is the roadblock to creating a workout routine. One step to creating that motivation is envisioning what exercise will give to you. If you started a routine tomorrow, how would your life be different six months from now? Hold on to that vision. Now that you have a vision of how your life would be better, what are some possible excuses for not executing your plan? not enough time can’t get outside to run/ can’t get to the gym too out of shape never been able to keep to a routine. If you have used the above excuses, and I think we all have, you may thinking “this is the way it is.” Making…

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    ADD – ADHD: Do You Want To Hook Up?

    ByMarla Cummins ADHD Communication, Blog

    No, I am not referring to dating. Though, if that is what you are looking for, by all means, go for it! Rather, I am asking you, if you want to make positive connections with people who through their actions or just their presence in your life provide you with support. It is all too easy in the hurriedness of our daily life to forget the value of nurturing our important relationships with family and friends. Though we may say that these people are important to us, the “task” of maintaining these relationships is often the first that goes by the wayside. Hmm… The last few weeks I have mentioned the tendency of those with AD/HD to get caught up in “the here and now”…

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    ADD – ADHD: Goals and Medication

    ByMarla Cummins ADHD Treatment Options, Blog

    When you have identified a goal that is important to you, you may find that you do not practice good self-care, even though you know that doing so will allow you to be more effective and efficient in working toward your goal. There are many reasons related to your ADHD that may make it challenging to plan for and follow through on taking care of yourself. It may be helpful to view the practice of self care as being part of your goal, rather than separate from it. One way to do this is to integrate self care, like taking the correct medication, into your plans for reaching your goal by making it one of the performance goals you set to reach your end goal….

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    ADD – ADHD: Got Goals? What’s The Plan?

    ByMarla Cummins ADHD Organization, ADHD Time Management, Blog

    Your ability to reach your goals is directly related to your commitment to the detail of your plan. Now, before you throw up your hands in despair, let me explain. First, of course, I know that attending to details are not likely your strong suit. I will continue to cover strategies for working with your AD/HD in order to create and focus on the details of your plan in this newsletter and in my blog, ADDed Perspective. For now, I want to point out that planning out all of the details of how you are going to reach your end goals allows you to break it down into manageable parts in order to keep moving forward. So, in creating a plan to be able to…

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    ADD – ADHD: What Was Your Peak Experience?

    ByMarla Cummins ADHD Organization, Blog

    The objective in this exercise is to pinpoint the values that made each experience a “peak experience.” After looking at the example below, come up with at least three of your own peak experiences. You may notice in my example that some of the values that are important to me are independence, achievement, acknowledgement and connection. I would be curious to hear what values your discovered while doing this exercise. Feel free to leave a comment below. Peak Experience: Working full time in my own business. Description of Peak Experience: I had been working for a few years while trying to start my own coaching and training business. Then one day I walked away from my full time job. I felt a sense of pride…