Articles from Carol Gignoux | Selfgrowth.com
- Abandon These Four Marriage-Killing ADHD Habits
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Submitted on Apr 11, 2013 from Carol GignouxLeft unchecked, there are a handful of pretty normal bad habits that can turn into relationship killers. The patterns of communication listed below can start innocently enough. You probably just don’t know any better. And for a while these cycles let out some tension and can be laughed off ...
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( 1 vote) - File Like a Champ: ADHD & Taxes
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Submitted on Apr 11, 2013 from Carol GignouxIt’s tax time! Are you ready? If your answer is a loud “NO” – you’re not alone. Tax season seems to be one of those universal experiences that makes everyone grumpy and anxious. The whole system seems especially designed to confound ADHDers: first, keep track of every little expense for 365 ...
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( 1 vote) - Life After the ADHD Diagnosis
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Submitted on Mar 12, 2013 from Carol GignouxWhen your ADHD diagnosis arrives, it can be overwhelming. Hopefully most of your feelings about it are positive. In some respects, years or decades of frustration and missteps suddenly make a lot of sense. There is also comfort from the revelation that many of the bad habits and problem ...
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( 1 vote) - Have you ever wondered if you might have ADHD?
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Submitted on Mar 12, 2013 from Carol Gignoux“I am so ADHD today.” We have all heard that phrase and know what it means. It is shorthand for someone who is feeling absent-minded, and makes a joke of it that his or her brain is in the grip of distraction issues beyond their control. But have you ever said it about yourself, and wondered if ...
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( 1 vote) - Lasting Motivation for ADHDers
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Submitted on Mar 12, 2013 from Carol GignouxWhat do you want? This might be one of the most loaded questions in the English language. What is your long-term, big-picture, no-guts-no-glory goal? Not to be morbid, but what is the accomplishment you would be proudest of in your obituary? For adults with ADHD, it’s common for those dreams to ...
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( 1 vote) - ADHD in 2012: A Cause for Celebration
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Submitted on Dec 07, 2012 from Carol GignouxA month from now, you will be powering through your New Year’s Resolutions, well on your way towards achieving feng shui in your living room, or better upper body strength, or all-around inner peace. But for now, take a victory lap in honor of 2012 (whether or not last year’s resolutions all ...
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( 1 vote) - Office MVP: The ADHD Team Player
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Submitted on Nov 12, 2012 from Carol Gignoux“What is my role in life? How do I fit in?” These are questions that everyone on earth has given some thought to in their lives. For some, the answers are harder to find than others – especially when some intangible difference separates people into “us” and “them,” making those searching ...
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- The ADHD-Friendly Recipe for Holiday Success
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Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Carol GignouxA holiday party is less than fun when you’re the one arriving late, or forgetting the gifts, or – worst of all – scrambling in the kitchen and wishing you had never volunteered to play host while hungry guests sit in the living room. As the nights grow frosty and the dreams of sugar plums ...
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( 1 vote) - Maintaining Peace within Ourselves
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Submitted on Sep 21, 2012 from Carol GignouxIt is especially hard these days to maintain a center of equilibrium amid the pressures and stresses of daily life. It’s difficult to escape reading or hearing stories and murky pieces of information that bring us down, making us question the sanity of the world and the viability of our own ...
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- Remove Your ADHD Vampire Thinking
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Submitted on Jul 10, 2012 from Carol GignouxTo live as an asset, we must live fully in the present. Most of us live as if we were half alive. The Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, observes that we walk around more dead-like than alive-like. He says we tend to live in the past where life has already happened or we live in the future where we ...
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- Recommendations for ADHD Friendly Colleges
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Submitted on Jun 14, 2012 from Carol GignouxThere are many Colleges and Universities throughout the nation that offer excellent services and support to students with the ADD/ADHD brain type. That means offering personal assistance and mentoring, innovative teaching styles, tips and strategies for better organization and, above all, ...
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- ADHD Couple Relationships: Three Signs it’s Time to Get Help
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Submitted on Jun 05, 2012 from Carol GignouxI have found that for many ADHD couples it is hard to see the true warning sings that their relationship may need outside help. When immersed in our own conversation and behavior patterns with each other, it would be unusual for us to be able to see the larger perspective of what is really going ...
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( 1 vote) - Top 3 Practices for Successful ADHD Couples
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Submitted on Oct 20, 2011 from Carol GignouxToday it is more important than ever to learn good strategies for having meaningful and happy relationships. For couples where one or both of the partners have ADHD, this can prove to be particularly challenging. With ever increasing demands on our time and energy, it is easy to neglect ...
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- Attention Deficit Disorder Means Innovation!
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Submitted on Aug 24, 2011 from Carol GignouxI recently heard that there is a new program being funded that is designed to inspire and teach innovative thinking to students in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades. Since this is where new generations of innovators get their start, I believe this is an idea well worth supporting.If we can reach kids ...
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- The ADD Tipping Point
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Submitted on Jul 26, 2011 from Carol GignouxWhat is the deciding factor for a rapid-fire thinker? Is it education? Is it peer relationships? Is it the right meds? I believe that the tipping point between solid, grounded life success and shaky, scary failure is how you feel about yourself. Self-esteem is the core issue of ADHD and ...
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- Meditation Successful at Calming and Focusing the Brain
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Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Carol GignouxMeditation is a great way to calm and focus yourself if you have the ADD brain type. In fact, research has shown that mediation has the power to not only calm you down, but retrain your brain to work better. Meditation is also good for gaining perspective and helping you make better decisions ...
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- Can ADD be an Asset?
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Submitted on Jun 01, 2011 from Carol GignouxThe truth about what exactly is ADD can be confusing. There are many interpretations out there each claiming to be the right one. ADD is a disability. ADD is a brain type. ADD is an executive function disorder. So how does one navigate the confusing waters of these competing definitions? How do ...
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- Eleven Key Answers for Organization when you have ADHD
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Submitted on Apr 23, 2011 from Carol GignouxStructure gives you the ability to follow a routine and daily agenda; get your bills paid, keep up with your professional tasks at work, manage your relationships, get places on time, know where you put things, etc. A lack of structure causes the opposite result. So there is great importance in ...
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- Are you someone with ADHD?
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Submitted on Feb 01, 2011 from Carol GignouxThen your greatest asset is your rapid fire thinking! With this asset, you are able to come to the best conclusions quickly, effectively, and way ahead of the people who don’t have ADHD. Let other people around you do the organizing, paperwork, and the detail managing. Your job is to create ...
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- Moving from Vampire Thinking© to Being an Asset
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Submitted on Jan 07, 2011 from Carol GignouxTo live as an asset, we must live fully in the present. Most of us live as if we were half alive. The Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, observes that we walk around more dead-like than alive-like. He says we tend to live in the past where life has already happened or we live in the future where we ...
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- You Can go from Fear to Fearless: Getting Fear under YOUR Control
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Submitted on Nov 18, 2010 from Carol GignouxVampire Thinking Series # 6 So many of us don’t realize how fear drives our everyday world. Fear is often behind our lack of authentically loving relationships, unsatisfying jobs, disappointment in our selves, bad money management, and lackluster lives. Take a few minutes out of your ...
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( 2 votes) - You Can go from Fear to Fearless: Getting Fear under YOUR Control
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Submitted on Nov 18, 2010 from Carol GignouxVampire Thinking Series # 6 So many of us don’t realize how fear drives our everyday world. Fear is often behind our lack of authentically loving relationships, unsatisfying jobs, disappointment in our selves, bad money management, and lackluster lives. Take a few minutes out of your ...
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( 2 votes) - Being True to Yourself
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Submitted on Nov 04, 2010 from Carol GignouxI am so encouraged by the positive reaction I am receiving to my “Vampire Thinking©” series of articles. Many of you have written to me to share your personal stories about the positive changes you are making as a result of understanding your self-incriminating behaviors. You are becoming ...
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( 3 votes) - Drive a Stake through the Heart of Your Vampire Thinking
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Submitted on Sep 06, 2010 from Carol GignouxThis is the third in a series of articles that focuses on a new concept I recently conceived of called Vampire Thinking©. In a nutshell, Vampire Thinking© is the thinking we do that short circuits our growth when we second guess ourselves and rationalize ourselves out of great opportunities and ...
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( 2 votes) - Vampire Thinking Tricksters
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Submitted on Aug 01, 2010 from Carol GignouxLast week I introduced the concept I recently coined called Vampire Thinking. Vampire Thinking is the compulsion we all have to suck the juice right out of our possibilities and opportunities. Instead of acting on a good idea, we excel at finding a slew of reasons we should kill it as soon a ...
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( 4 votes) - Don't Let Vampire Thinking Steal Your Dreams
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Submitted on Jul 14, 2010 from Carol GignouxI knew I needed to come up with a better name for this thinking type. It is a habit of mind we tend to take for granted as part of our mental make up and how we do things. But it has a powerful pull on our minds, sort of like a magnet the size of King Cong. I work consciously to identify this ...
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( 1 vote) - Solving Workplace Challenges for People with ADHD: Organization
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Submitted on Jun 18, 2010 from Carol GignouxBecause of how the ADHD brain functions, people with this condition commonly experience several workplace challenges that can negatively impact their performance. These challenges include: Time/Task Management, Distractibility/Impulsivity; Working Memory; Organization; and ...
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( 1 vote) - Solving Workplace Challenges for People with ADHD: Working Memory
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Submitted on May 30, 2010 from Carol GignouxBecause of how the ADHD brain functions, people with this condition commonly experience several workplace challenges that can negatively impact their performance. These challenges include: Time/Task Management, Distractibility/Impulsivity; Working Memory; Organization; and ...
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( 7 votes) - The Importance of Self Acceptance
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Submitted on Jun 04, 2010 from Carol GignouxKaren is a 23 year old woman who felt extremely uncomfortable around people. She originally contacted ADD Insights for coaching services, because she felt she had nothing to offer. By her own admission, she felt she was unattractive and had nothing interesting to say. Karen did not attend ...
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- Solving Workplace Challenges for People with ADHD: Distractability/Impulsivity
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Submitted on May 10, 2010 from Carol GignouxBecause of how the ADHD brain functions, people with this condition commonly experience several workplace challenges that can negatively impact their performance. These challenges include: Time/Task Management, Distractibility/Impulsivity; Working Memory; Organization; and ...
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( 3 votes) - Is ADHD a Myth?
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Submitted on May 10, 2010 from Carol GignouxIs ADHD really a legitimate brain condition? Or is it a made-up diagnosis used to explain aberrant behavior? Is the ADHD label an opportunity for some people to slough off responsibilities and get a pass on completing necessary tasks? Does it give people an excuse for their mistakes and their ...
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( 3 votes) - Solving Workplace Challenges for People with ADHD: Time / Task Management
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Submitted on Jun 18, 2010 from Carol GignouxBecause of how the ADHD brain functions, people with this condition commonly experience several workplace challenges that can negatively impact their performance. These challenges include: Time/Task Management, Distractibility/Impulsivity; Working Memory; Organization; and ...
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( 1 vote) - You Can Heal Yourself: Trust and Relationships
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Submitted on Jan 06, 2011 from Carol GignouxFor many of us trust is not necessarily an easy thing. It can be a big word - loaded with disappointments and few happy memories. We hesitate when we are faced with the desire or need to trust someone and are not comfortable when they trust us. We fear what may happen by making ourselves that ...
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