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Spring, 2012 - New Programs coming this Spring!
Coming in February / March – a whole new set of powerful, life-changing live classes and programs that share everything I’ve been learning, teaching and living for the past 7 years about healing overwhelm, disorganization, anxiety, depression and thriving with ADHD and other neurodiversities…I can hardly wait to share the details…but alas…I must. However, you can register to make sure you don’t miss anything. You can always unsubscribe if you decide you aren’t interested.
REGISTER HERE FOR THE FREE “Studio Tour”
- April 14 – 30 – will be in Vancouver, Canada! Presenting live at the 2012 Wealthy Thought Leader Conference hosted by creative genius Andrea J. Lee.
10-16-11 I appeared at the ADHD EXPO Online on….
“3 Keys to Designing your Life to Fit so You Can Flourish with ADHD”
ABOUT MY AGILE LIFE DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
- Do you feel like your brilliance and high potential is overshadowed by your challenges with getting things done?
- Do you find yourself getting “stuck” in painful patterns of “OCD” overwhelm, clutter and disorganization?
- Do you suffer from feeling that you could be doing so much more with your life – if only you could manage your time better? or had better people skills? could be more patient? could make yourself go to bed earlier or get up earlier? eat better? or pick one thing and focus on it till it’s done?
You are not alone.
There are millions of us suffering from chronic disorganization and the chronic dissatisfaction, overwhelm and frustration that comes with it. Satisfaction with ourselves, our lives, our careers and our relationships is strongly correlated with how we feel about our ability to design (manage) our time, things, spaces, work, money and relationships.
It’s hard to feel satisfied with anything when we carry around this pervasive sense that we are capable of doing so much more – if only we were improved versions of ourselves who had more time, more energy,more discipline, more self-control, more focus, more money, more support, more sleep, and more organization. If only we had more of “something” we could become as brilliantly productive as we imagine other people to be.
The truth, however, is that having more of anything will not actually increase your productivity or your satisfaction with life. The reality is that having more time, energy, or support, etc, would actually magnify whatever issue you are having today. The paradoxical whole truth is that if you aren’t making the most of what you already have, having more will only make it even harder. What most of us really need is less. The challenge is that cutting back or saying no is often even harder than acquiring more.
Becoming satisfied with what you have now, as well as with who you are now, is the foundation for all future satisfaction. Being able to be satisfied is a skill – like building a house. If you can’t build a house today, what will be different tomorrow? Getting more of the materials needed to build the house is not enough. You must have the know-how as well.
The ability to design satisfaction into the daily self-care and practical functions of your life is what gives you the energy to pursue the greater satisfactions of life, like work you love, and family and friends you feel deeply connected to and supported by.
If you haven’t been able to design a satisfying approach to taking care of the house you have, a bigger house will actually be even more frustrating. If you can make the small house work, then you’ll be ready for the bigger house. Same with time and money. When you have designed a satisfying way to enjoy the time and money you have, you will be ready to maximize your time even more, and welcome ever increasing amounts of money into your life.
Now let’s go a level deeper. Becoming able to design satisfaction into your life, starts with understanding yourself and becoming satisfied with who you are – as you are – right now. When you deeply accept yourself, you learn to cooperate with yourself as you are. When you get that, then you are ready to cultivate and “tweak” or improve both yourself and your environment so that you become ready to naturally grow into your personal potential. As with a garden, you must understand the plant as it is, so that you can give that plant what it needs to unfold into it’s full potential when it is ready. Some plants are fast growing and bloom in 90 days.
Others don’t bloom till their second year of life and take years before they reach their full blooming potential. When you understand who you really are, and become willing to nurture yourself as you are today, trusting that your future potential can’t help but blossom.
Comparing your progress and journey to others can be a source of self-criticism or inspiration depending on how you look at it. Trying to do or be just like someone else never works. That’s why using other people’s pre-designed systems usually doesn’t work either. Expecting yourself to do things they same way other’s do may work at times, if they happen to have similar needs and traits as you, but if their system hasn’t worked for you yet, it’s not likely to. Especially if you are not an average or common kind of person.
Just like a plant that stops growing, procrastination, or feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and frustrated are all signs that you need a different approach to cultivating your best life. Agile Life Design™ provides a unique mindset and set of tools for people who don’t fit the mold, who aren’t “followers” of other people’s systems. Agile Life Design™ empowers you to design and tweak your life so that you can flourish with confidence that whatever life sends your way, you can adapt, evolve and grow with greater ease.
If traditional organizing approaches haven’t worked for you, or have left you feeling dissatisfied and disorganized, isn’t it time to stop “improving” yourself to fit your life, and start making peace with yourself as you are and designing your life to fit you?
Ready to get started?
Before you do anything else, if you resonate with the idea of Agile Life Design™, I suggest getting my FREE Agile Life Design™ ToolKit. We’ll get you started with a couple of my most popular PDFs delivered to your email today. You’ll receive:
Simplifying Your Life: Agile Life Design Strategies for Doing What Matters Most 8 page Printable PDF
Myths, Facts and Agile Life Design Strategies for Thriving with Adult ADHD A 6 page Printable PDF
You will also get first notification of Agile Life Design™ events and programs like the FREE STUDIO “TOUR” coming this spring.
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If you are intrigued by the philosophy of Agile Life Design™ or any aspect of my work, I’d love to stay in touch. Feel free to write to me here or join one of my social networking sites (Facebook is the one I’m actively discussing my book writing process and sharing previews of ideas that will be in the new book. Would love to have you join the conversation.)
I always love getting comments on my blog posts as well and promise to respond as soon as I can.
Wishing you much peace and an ever agile heart and mind,
Resources for Exploring “Agile Life Design™”
A few of my newer articles…
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Welcome to Agile Life Design™ and my Life Design “Studio” (Jan 2012)
- The ”Way of Agile” A “Heart to Heart” introduction I wrote as I’m working on developing a ToolKit for agilizing your life.
- Who are Outliers and What is Neurodiversity?
Below are some of my most popular articles – recently updated
- Are you an adult with ADHD or ADDish traits? Ever thought you might be “gifted”? How about Neurodiverse?“
- “The Truth about Chronic Disorganization: What Causes Chronic Disorganization – How to Heal the Trauma”
- “Is it Adult ADHD or Creative Personality Type?”
You may also want to visit
- Agile Learning Center A few of my popular classes that are now home study courses.
- Neuro-Friendly Reading List Book suggestions which I feel offer empowerment rather than prescribing how you “should” do be or do things.
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