Ten Ways to be Happier When You Live/Love Someone With ADHD
I write a lot about how to be a better everything with ADHD. Whether that’s a better father, husband, wife, friend, boss, manager, or employee. But I don’t often focus on what it must be like from the other side. If you have the fortunate circumstance of loving or...
How Wunderlist Saved my ADHD Butt in China – Multiple Times
Heard of Wunderlist yet? It's a simple list program, where you can store whatever you'd like - ideas, thoughts, blog post concepts, things to do, you name it. This past week in Asia, it's been saving my life on numerous occasions, and no doubt it will for the...
Yet another reason waking up early will save the world
When you have ADHD, you live and die by scheduling. If you schedule something, you get it done and get it off the table. If you don't, it never gets done. Remember, for those with ADHD, soon isn't an actuality. But, when you schedule something yet you're at the mercy...
What happens when you lose your zone?
Last week, I took my daughter to San Francisco on her first business trip with Daddy. She's three years old, and I couldn't wait for all the fun she was going to have - going on an airplane, exploring new places, finding the best ice cream... And by and large, she had...
Why Hiring the Damaged is your Smartest Business Strategy
When I was 10 years old, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, and a motor-visual impairment that made it difficult for me to copy the lessons teachers would write on the blackboard into my notebook. (My ADHD diagnosis would arrive twenty years later.) To counter my...
Faster Than Normal Featured on FOX News!
Welcome to all of our new readers who are Faster Than Normal, who found us through this weekend's FOX News piece with Dr. Manny. We're thrilled you're here! If you haven't already, please subscribe to the podcast, and leave us a review on iTunes! We're glad you're...
The Right Tools for the Job
Remember the phrase "use the right tool for the job? Well, when you're ADD/HD, that's never been more true. For someone with ADD/HD, tools can be the difference between productivity and a wasted day. For me, I know that I'm able to control my Faster Than Normal...
Three Ways to “Fast Reboot” the ADHD Brain
Ask any techie the #1 way to cure a slow or sluggish computer, and they'll all agree: Reboot it. Rebooting a machine cleans out all the RAM, starts you fresh, and bumps up speed and processing power, all of which can slow down after being used for long periods of time...
Thoughts on being the “loud kid.”
Growing up, "calm" was rarely used to describe me. Quite the opposite. I was hyperactive, always ready with a comment or a question, asked "why" probably 200 times a day. I had a constant goal of making people laugh, of being the class clown, of not being normal....
Are you Faster Than Normal?
Last year, I had two weeks left on deadline for a book I was writing. My publisher was getting antsy, as I hadn’t sent her anything yet. I’d done all the research, the problem was sitting down and getting the writing done. But I wasn’t worried. I’d been here before....