518 - The Lisa Glossary Part 13: Defining Executive Functions in the Home & ADHD
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible? Can you put enough systems in place to correct or manage ADHD? After diving into ADHD and running all the tests, the ADHD expert was convinced I did not have ADHD. However, when we took a deeper dive into my childhood and who I was before Organize 365®; it was a clear picture of a person with ADHD. The expert explained that all the systems I have put in place, combined with hiring out the tasks that I struggle with…I have masked the fact that I have ADHD!
I didn't always believe in an ADHD diagnosis. When I was young and thought I knew everything, I was convinced children just needed a little more discipline and manners. Some children just had a lot of energy is how I explained it. But then I had one student who put me in my place. I thought it was crazy for mom and dad to try medication for the little girl during the VERY last week of school. But much to my surprise; she was a very bright student and the medication helped ADHD get out of her way! I realized I knew nothing about anything.
Isn't it funny how the more you know, the more you realize that you know very little? Once we adopted children, I loved to play preschool with them. It wasn't until a routine doctor visit that it was brought to my attention that I would be raising a child with ADHD. At this point, I craved information to help my children to succeed. I was lucky enough to attend seminars in Cincinnati with all the best doctors and learn about ADHD!
Now I'm embarking on my PhD journey, where I'll be focusing on the brain and the eight executive functions. That's right! I'm a lifelong learner and am confident that I have the systems in place that I need to be organized and succeed. It has come full circle – and I'm here to share it with all of you!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's mailbag comes to us from Beverly. |
| 0:03.0 | Thanks to last year's holiday blitz, I had all my gift wrapping supplies and cards purchased last December for this season. |
| 0:12.0 | Thanks to this year's blitz, I have made some reductions in what I plan to bake and do. |
| 0:18.0 | Time and money saved. |
| 0:21.0 | Planning to enjoy the holidays and my vacation time instead of returning to work broke and exhausted. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks Lisa. |
| 0:30.0 | Do you have an organized 365 success story? |
| 0:33.0 | If so, we would love to hear about it. |
| 0:36.0 | Please send us an email at Customer Service at Organize 365 |
| 0:40.0 | and tell us how you have taken back your home, your paper, and your life with Organize 365. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome to the Organize 365 podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm your host, Professional Organizer, Productivity Expert, and Motivational Speaker Lisa Woodruff. |
| 1:02.0 | This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection and create lasting functional organizing in your home. |
| 1:10.0 | I have so much to share with you, so let's get started. |
| 1:14.0 | My understanding of ADHD and how the executive function functions inside of our brain has been something that I have been exploring and developing over the last really 20 years. |
| 1:34.0 | I would say the first time that I really heard the term ADHD was when one of my eighth grade classmates was outside |
| 1:44.0 | who had hung up the flag on the flagpole and I was winter and he literally stuck his tongue to the flagpole. |
| 1:51.0 | And yeah, of course, it's stuck. |
| 1:53.0 | Like he'd seen it in a movie. |
| 1:55.0 | And I'm like, wow. |
| 1:57.0 | And that's kind of like what we thought ADHD was like in the late 70s, early 80s. |
| 2:03.0 | It was hyperactive voice doing things they shouldn't do when they were supposed to be learning in school. |
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