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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Getting to Know Yourself | |
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| Understanding ADD | |
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| Recognizing Symptoms | |
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| Getting a Diagnosis: How to Tell If You Have ADD | |
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| Some Treatment Options | |
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| The Role of Attention | |
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| ADD and Organizational Abilities | |
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| How This Book Can Help You | |
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| Identifying Your Strengths and Weaknesses | |
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| Identifying Your Strengths | |
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| Understanding Your Weaknesses | |
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| Distinguishing Between Helpful and Difficult Environments | |
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| Identifying Strategies That Work for You | |
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| Using Self-Awareness to Prevent Problems | |
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| Your Personal Tool Box | |
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| Important Rules for Using the Tools | |
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| Self-Talk | |
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| Visualizing | |
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| Hearing, Touching, Smelling, Tasting | |
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| Routines | |
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| Checklists | |
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| Stop! | |
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| Practical Strategies for Everyday Problems | |
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| Help, I Can't Find My Keys! | |
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| Why You Keep Losing Things | |
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| Preventing Items from Getting Lost | |
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| How to Stop Losing Your Keys | |
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| How to Stop Losing Your Glasses, Wallet, or Cell Phone | |
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| How to Remember Where You Parked Your Car | |
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| How to Stop Misplacing Your Money | |
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| How to Stop Getting Lost | |
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| When Something Is Already Lost: Finding Misplaced Items | |
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| Guidelines to Help You Locate Things Without Panicking | |
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| My House Is a Pigsty! | |
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| Barriers to Neatness and Organization | |
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| Is All Clutter Bad? | |
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| Action Steps to Get Organized | |
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| Steps to De-Cluttering and Organizing Your Room | |
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| Attacking a Pile of Papers | |
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| Organizing Your Kitchen | |
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| Tips for Maintaining a (Relatively) Neat Home | |
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| No Matter How Hard I Try, I'm Always Late | |
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| Poor Time Management Can Cause Multiple Problems | |
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| Manage Attention to Manage Time | |
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| Increase Time-Estimation Skills to Manage Time | |
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| The Importance of Planning for Better Time Management | |
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| Completing a Grant Proposal on Time | |
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| Dealing with Common Time Wasters | |
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| Perfectionism | |
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| Plan on Improving Slowly | |
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| I Have Things to Do, but I Don't Know Where to Begin | |
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| Procrastination | |
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| Overcoming Procrastination | |
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| Planning a Trip | |
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| How to Develop Checklists for Complex Tasks | |
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| Giving a Dinner Party | |
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| Making a Presentation at Work | |
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| The Satisfaction of Getting Things Done | |
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| People Get Irritated with Me and I Don't Know Why | |
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| What Makes Them So Angry | |
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| How to Read Cues from Other People | |
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| Talk Less | |
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| Listen Better | |
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| Renegotiate Relationships | |
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| Follow Through on Commitments | |
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| Work to Become More Self-Aware | |
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| Looking Ahead to the Future | |
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| Medication: Should I? Shouldn't I? | |
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| What Medication Can Do | |
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| The Medication Decision | |
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| Types of Medication | |
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| Monitoring Your Medication | |
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| Guidelines for Taking Medication | |
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| Strategies for Keeping Track of Your Medication | |
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| Reevaluating Medication | |
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| Making Decisions and Setting Goals | |
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| How ADD Affects Decision Making and Goal Setting | |
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| Skills Required for Effective Decision Making and Goal Setting | |
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| Problem-Solving Checklist | |
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| Decision-Making Checklist | |
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| Diagrams to Help You Solve Problems and Make Decisions | |
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| Setting Goals | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |