Books I Recommend

There are so many wonderful books on the topics I'm passionate about, so this is just a selection of some of my favorites.

Categories

ADHD – Executive Function   Productivity/Time Optimization   Parenting/Education   Organizing   Relationships/Couples   Personal Development/Health   Career/Workplace   Teen/Young Adult

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ADHD – Executive Function

ADD Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

Strategies that work for the neuro-atypical mind, from an acclaimed professional organizer and a renowned ADD clinician.

You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?

The classic self-help book for adults with ADD. Warm, honest and funny, it offers understanding, practical how-to’s and moral support.

A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults

A research based guide to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of ADHD and executive function impairments.

The Disorganized Mind:
Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks and Talents

Proven strategies to help anyone with ADHD get focused, stay on track, and get things done – and finally get what they want from their work and their life.

Is It You, Me or Adult ADD?
Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love has ADD 

ADHD symptom, ‘selfish’ behavior or both? A look at both sides to help find solutions that work for all.

Organizing for the Creative Person
Right-brain styles for conquering clutter, mastering time, and reaching your goals.

Productivity/Time Optimization

Parenting/Education

A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults

A research based guide to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of ADHD and executive function impairments.

Organization

ADD Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

Strategies that work for the neuro-atypical mind, from an acclaimed professional organizer and a renowned ADD clinician.

Organizing for the Creative Person
Right-brain styles for conquering clutter, mastering time, and reaching your goals.

relationships/couples

Is It You, Me or Adult ADD?
Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love has ADD 

ADHD symptom, ‘selfish’ behavior or both? A look at both sides to help find solutions that work for all.

The ADHD Effect on Marriage:
Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps

A guide to dealing with the impact of ADHD on marriage without making either partner ‘wrong.’

Organization

Personal Development/Health

SPARK:
The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Evidence-based support for the transformative effects of exercise on the brain: Beat stress, lift mood, fight memory loss, sharpen intellect and more.

Career/Workplace

Finding a Career That Works for You:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Choosing a Career

An essential guide for choosing a career or finding a job: From clarifying your interests, aptitudes, personality, and goals to practical tips for each step in the job-finding process.

Teen/Young Adult

This is a book that has ADD-Friendly advice with the ADDer in mind. This collaboration brings forth the best underlying understanding with the most effective and practical remedy from ADD experts in two important fields — professional organization and clinical psychology.

A comprehensive guide to recognizing the behaviors where you least expect them (on the road and in the bedroom, for example) and developing compassion for couples wrestling with unrecognized ADHD symptoms.


You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

This essential guidebook begins by describing how the ADHD brain processes information and how that leads to typical challenges that people with ADHD experience, as well as why certain strategies are effective and others aren’t.

By teaching how to better understand one’s interests, aptitudes, personality, and goals, practical tips are provided on how to find a job in a chosen field—where to search for available jobs, the best ways to prepare a resume, how to write a cover letter, and how to make the best impression during a job interview.

This cutting-edge book pulls together key ideas of this new understanding of ADHD, explaining them and describing in understandable language scientific research that supports this new model.


This book guides couples in troubled marriages towards an understanding and appreciation for the struggles and triumphs of a relationship affected by ADHD, and to look at the disorder in a more positive and less disruptive way.


For the millions of adults diagnosed with ADHD The Disorganized Mind will provide expert guidance on what they can do to make the most of their lives. The inattention, time-mismanagement, procrastination, impulsivity, distractibility, and difficulty with transitions that often go hand-in-hand with ADHD can be overcome.

As a follow-up to the bestseller ‘Now, Discover Your Strengths,’ ‘StrengthsFinder 2.0’ picks up where the original left off. It includes new information for the StrengthsFinder program, making it easier than ever before to apply your strengths in your daily life.

We only have so much time in the day and there are plenty of resources to look into how to best leverage that time. Alan’s book breaks things down to practical actions you can take now, using what you already have at your disposal – the thing between your ears: your brain. Alan offers practical and actionable advice in these pages that will help you process and prioritize better than before.

Whether you’re drowning in clutter or just looking for a new way to deal with the perennial challenge of organizing and managing material things, this fresh and reassuring approach is sure to help. Making Peace with the Things in Your Life will help you cut down on your clutter and cut down on your stress!


This is a completely updated edition of the 1983 classic that introduced a powerful method for gaining freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs. Rick Carson, creator of the renowned Gremlin-Taming™ Method, has revised the book to include fresh interactive activities, real-life vignettes we can all identify with, and new loathsome gremlins ripe for taming.

In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed.


You can dramatically improve life for your child with ADHD. With Parenting ADHD Now! you will learn to set healthy limits, find compassion and acceptance, change your habits, laugh instead of cry, understand instead of yell, and thrive instead of just survive.

The right-brain way to conquering clutter, mastering time, and reaching one’s goals: the first book to show creative people how to arrange their desks, their time, and their lives in a style consistent with their unique way of perceiving the world.

 

Strategies and concrete examples, plus downloadable practical tools for creating your own personalized action plan. Whether on the job or at home, you can get more done with less stress.


Your “smart but scattered” child might also have trouble coping with disappointment or managing anger. Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have great news: there’s a lot you can do to help.


Every year, millions of withdrawn little girls and chronically overwhelmed women go diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder because they don’t fit the stereotypical profile: they re not fast-talking, hyperactive, or inattentive, and they are not male. 


Drawing on Eastern philosophy, Buddhism, Japanese Psychology, Zen, the Samurai, and Martial Arts, Gregg Krech offers an approach to ACTION that guides you to doing what is important for you to do in the time you have available.

In SPARK, John Ratey, MD embarks upon a fascinating journey through the mind-body connection, illustrating that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to menopause to Alzheimer’s.

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