ABSTRACT
If you’re like many adults with ADD, you put “getting organized” on your list of odious and impossible tasks-like a starvation weight-loss regime, or a predawn daily exercise plan-something requiring impossible iron will and perseverance. There may be a person in your life who seems to embody all the organizing virtues-“early to bed, early to rise,” combined with “a place for everything and everything in its place.” Modeling your behavior after someone who is very controlled, perhaps over-controlled, can rarely work if you’re an adult with ADD. Those few adults with ADD that are super-organized, who probably also have some degree of obsessive compulsive traits, typically consume every waking moment in their organizing efforts. Most adults with ADD should not set their sights on being perfectly organized, but rather on reaching a level of organization that helps them function with more productivity and less stress as they go through each day.
