When you have ADD, one thing you’re probably not great at is keeping your living space together. You might have piles of stuff everywhere, including laundry, which is all over the floor of the bedroom. We know what we need to do, but just can bring ourselves to do stuff that’s boring. Looking around at the mess can get a little depressing.

Just remember that you’re not the only one with these issues. All ADD people have the same stuff to deal with. We just hate being bored, and cleaning and straightening bore us to death. That’s just how it is. There are so many more interesting and fun things to do in life that we just don’t worry about that kind of thing, but we really do want more ordered life. How can we get it?

ADD-friendly systems can help you. Try doing one load of laundry a day, for example. It’s much easier to put one dryer load of clothes away than 7 at one time.

You can clean the same way. Do one chore each day, like sweep one day, dust the next. And leave the huge jobs, like window cleaning for somebody else. Pay them. It’s pretty inexpensive, and it’s better than never having it done at all.

But if this system doesn’t fit with your ADD, try thinking of big jobs in chunks. Like, clean off the kitchen counter. Then, go to the refrigerator and throw old food that you don’t recognize away. Then, empty the trash. Then, worry about the kitchen table. Do things one area at a time.

Maybe the best way for you will be doing the boring stuff 10 minutes at a time. Do some straightening or cleaning for 10 minutes and then, do something you like to do for 50 minutes. Then, start over again. You’ll be amazed at what you can get accomplished with this routine.

Everyone with ADD has real approach-avoidance issues over doing boring things. We want a neat, organized place to live, but just can’t bring ourselves to do what we need to do to have things that way. Try one of these systems, one you think will fit in with your personal brand of ADD. If it doesn’t work well, try another. Nothing says that you can’t have things the way you want them to be. You just have to find a system that suits you.

If you are a student who is trying to bring up your grades, there are a list of tricks that will help you to amplify your capacity to focus your concentration, absorb the data that you study, and bring it back to consciousness during an exam without being subjected to mental blocks or test anxiety. Here are the best ways that I know to establish good study habits:

(1) Create a place for study and study only in that place! Establish a peaceful room that will make possible concentration without any distractions. Some usual examples would be a library, a vacant classroom, or your home office. You will want to establish the habit of studying when you are in this place. So it is best to not use this place for other activities like daydreaming, watching TV, or playing music, etc.

BE SURE YOUR SPECIAL PLACE HAS:

(a) A comfy seat, but not excessively comfortable

(b) Your writing desk or table

(c) Excellent illumination

(d) Sufficient air flow

BE SURE YOUR SPECIAL PLACE DOES NOT HAVE:

(a) Views that will be distracting

(b) A telephone

(c) Distracting music

(d) A large screen television

(e) A companion who talks a lot

(f) A refrigerator filled with snacks

(2) Split your work into small, short-range projects.

(a) Set up small highly specific projects like, “I am going to study my English from 1 PM to 2 PM. Or else you will be setting yourself up to fail.

(b) Set a doable homework goal for the amount of time you are able to allocate. For example: finish reading chapter ten in my chemistry text, or complete a final version of my chemistry paper, etc. Set your goals when you you are ready to study but before you actually begin. Set realistic goals. You may do more than reach your goal, but set a reasonable goal even if it seems far too easy.

(3) Test Anxiety

(a) Some students experience physical symptoms for the most part, like feeling hot or cold, nausea, or faintness, etc.

(b) Other students experience mostly emotional symptoms, like feeling irritable, crying, or getting frustrated quickly.

(c) The main difficulty with anxiety is that it can make one have a memory block. Or it could make one have thoughts that are racing out of control.

(d) Although you may currently experience some level of anxiety while taking a test, you can learn to diminish that anxiety, or even completely eliminate it!

(e) Anxiety and the resultant stress are as a rule the main causes of a lack of the ability to focus your concentration. Stress can also trigger a mental block when one tries to remember information.

(f) Hypnosis CD’s can be utilized to relax your mind and focus your concentration. As your mind calms down, your ability to stay focused will increase. Similarly, a calm mind enhances your ability to retain information, and recall it when it is needed.

(g) Hypnosis and NLP CD’s can be utilized to program your mind for the positive expectation of tranquility and the ability to bring back to mind the information during an exam. This is effective at diminishing or eliminating test anxiety.

(h) There are a number of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques that can quickly do away with a test phobia!

Nowadays, the easy meditation techniques can be considered almost essential, if wanting to relax and to detach from stress. We all tend to get caught up in tensioned environments, be it the case of professional or personal ones and forget how to spend quality time and how to basically rediscover ourselves and enjoy our lives.

This happens simply because the world is evolving around dynamism and we all want to keep up with our times. But sadly, all this can cause a lot of stress and a wide range of emotional and physical problems. And this is precisely why we need the easy meditation techniques.

The first target of the easy meditation techniques is to bring us to a calmer and more peaceful state. Considering this, the easy meditation techniques need to be applied in a friendly, beautiful place, where no disturbing external factors can be found. We can either go to a loved place, in the middle of the nature, for example, or we can build our own private meditation space in the comfort of our homes.

Basically, this ambient needs to stimulate all our senses, to induce a state of calm and relaxation. Therefore, we can use quiet music, scented candles, diffuse lights or other such particular elements that can create a welcoming and suitable meditation space.

After creating our space, we can start the easy meditation techniques with a few breathing exercises that allow us to relax. Breathing through the nose, long, deep and slowly is very important in order to achieve that sensation of detaching from the real world and entering an imaginary world, full of welcoming sensations and full of beauty and creativity.

As long as we apply these breathing exercises correctly constantly, we can be sure that our meditation session will be a successful and fulfilling one. While breathing, we need to focus on all the changes that occur in our body when we inhale and exhale. This helps us know our bodies better and to actually enjoy the breathing session, thus feeling that it charges us with the needed pure air.

The position of the body is another relevant element for an enjoyable meditation session. In order to apply the easy meditation techniques correctly, we need to either lay down with our head on a pillow or we can sit flat on the floor. Still, there are no strict rules when talking about the ideal position, since we can find our own personalized position that makes us feel safe, calm and comfortable.

The next step of the easy meditation techniques presupposes the relaxation of the muscles. We should do this while breathing and we should enjoy how our body loses the tension step by step, thus allowing us to relax. We can image sinking in the couch, floating or being very light, in order to help our body release all the unnecessary tension. After managing to complete this step, we are ready to let our mind and imagination flow and to enjoy the actual meditation.

One of the easiest meditation techniques presupposes thinking about certain meaningful phrases that bring positive emotions and feelings. We can choose religious facts and ideas, philosophical concepts or simple words that have a symbolic relevancy to us. The basis of these easy meditation techniques is to repeat the selected words or phrases for minutes, while concentrating on the breathing and relaxation exercises. Furthermore, with every repetition, we should try to attach new and deeper meanings to our concept or phrase.

The meditation sessions should end at the point where we feel completely relaxed and free of stress and tension. Repeating these easy meditation techniques every day for a few minutes can bring a wide range of benefits in our lives, from increasing our energy levels, to stabilizing our blood pressure and helping us avoid stress and tension.