This ability to stay above the emotion allows me to give clients a fresh, empowering perspective.  One that only comes from the outside in.  Many people can not do this on their own when under stress.

Many of my clients are not naturally disorganized or scattered people.   They can feel in charge of their lives, and manage their time and space with intention.  However, it’s an understatement to say they are “busy”.  Some live like a circus contortionist, spinning 10 plates on sticks while riding a bicycle backwards on a tightrope. Raise your hand if you can related to that feeling.

The piles of papers and unopened mail, the missed appointments and botched deadlines, the disappointment and the embarrassment. It weighs on you, and makes you want to just close the office door and work somewhere else.

Now, I can empathize with your feelings as a caring person should, but:

• I haven’t been living with your situation for weeks, months or years.
• I don’t feel guilty, embarrassed, or daunted by it.
• Nothing unpleasant has happened to me because of it.
• I haven’t tried and failed already many times to fix it.
• I’m not at my wit’s end.

Take the stress out of the mess by bringing in someone who isn’t bothered by it.

Have an outstanding day!

If you’ve been following my blogging launch in 2008, you may have noticed a sudden nose-dive in posts. It’s disappointing, to say the least, to feel “left hanging”. I’m here today to tell you that I’M BACK! and to let you in some personal experiences I’ve grown through recently. Keep reading – this is to your advantage!

We all know someone who thinks the world would be a better place if only we (or they) could “fix” our weaknesses. True, in theory.  In reality, trying to “fix” ourselves or someone else often leads to disappointment at best, conflict, low self-esteem and  dissolved relationships at worst.

The hallmark of my organizing and coaching services is that they are strengths-centered. What does that mean? Strength-centered services focus on leveraging your strongest skills and abilities to compensate for your areas of challenge. I also affectionately call this “the path of least resistance”.   Meaning, rather than try to fix you, we look at the challenging task, to see if it can be made more easily manageable, delegated or (best of all) eliminated!

What does this have to do with my recent vanishing act? While I have been away from blogging and tweeting, I have been focusing on learning the therapies to treat our youngest son, recently diagnosed with PDD-NOS, or Autism Spectrum Disorder.

I’ll spare you the gory details on the disorder, and skip to let you in on the life-altering fact I  learned in 2008:  Just as we human beings are, for the most part, very similar but somewhat different on the outside, so too are our brains very similar, but individually unique.  This is no secret to people familiar with neuro-science, occupational therapy, education (especially Special Ed), and many more “neuro-professions” (I coined that myself – what do you think?).

The bottom line is that people with major neurological differences (like ADD/ADHD/LD) experience aspects of life and living differently from “typical” people.  They hear, see, feel, smell, and relate differently to our shared environment.  It’s up to us: parents, teachers, friends employers and co-workers, to help people with differences adapt to face challenges and leverage strengths.

If you are struggling with organizing or time management, and have failed at “tried and true” methods, you may consider that your brain is just “wired differently”.  You probably don’t have anything diagnosable, but even if you do, you should know that there is a productivity consultant who won’t make feel inqdequate because of it.  I don’t want to fix you – I want to help you discover the systems that match the way your brain works. 

Don’t think that because nothing has worked up until now that no one can help you.  Contact me for a complimentary phone consultation and find out how getting ARoundTuit can change your life!

With best wishes,

Lauren

“-then assist those around you”.  

Why so selfish?  Well, look at you.  You may be taking better care of your pets than you do of yourself.  That leaves you overtired, crabby (that’s the nice word for it), malnourished, forgetful to an extreme, and feeling like a pinball (remember those?) being flipped from bumper to bumper.  You might feel like you aren’t doing anything well these days, that you’re just treading water.  Career, family, friends, finances, future, my blood pressure rises steadily with each word.

Putting on your own oxygen mask first means taking reasonably good care that your own needs are met, in order to be able to meet the needs of others.  This is as true at work as it is certainly true at home.  We are the best people we can be, for ourselves and others, when we take care of our own basic needs first.

Get to bed earlier

Get outside for some fresh air

Get healthy with a balanced diet and wellness routine.

Get laughing with positive people who inspire you

Get going: set goals for yourself, and get things done!

The first step towards living the life of your dreams is being in condition to see it and handle it.  If you don’t know where to start, there’s no one like a personal coach to help you.

Isn’t it time you got ARoundTuit?  Have an awesome evening!