Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hey everyone I'm Susan Kaufman and you're listening to Attitude Magazine's ADHD experts audio.

Today's topic is an extremely timely one. It's how to get things done, especially accomplishing our long-term

goals. We all have priorities for each new year. We write out goals like we're going to learn to play the piano

or learn a foreign language, or maybe we just want to get done the things that we want to get done each week.

But somehow we forget what we intended to do, we lose our lists, we're not sure how to break up a big task and you know time just passes before we

know it. Our guest today is Judith Kahlberg. She is a professional organizer, a

speaker and author, but I have to say that she is unique in recognizing the challenges of people with

executive function disorders. Her book ADHD Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life is

I think one of the first books that really focused on the

chronically disorganized and I urge you to take a look at it and to visit her website

www. fileheads.net. Judith, thank you so much for joining us today. Well, thank you for

having me. I so appreciate that introduction. It said that Julius Caesar started

the tradition of making resolutions on January 1st to honor the Roman mythical God Janus.

Janus has two faces, one that allowed him to look back into the past year and forward into the new year.

So the new year has come to represent a time for a fresh start for a clean slate. It also

somewhat seductively lays out what we think is a whole year in front of us to carry out our goals and our

resolutions and also gives us enough time to get back on the horse if we fall off the resolution horse.

Let's say you resolve to get organized in 2015.

Could be you got off to a good start.

Maybe you downloaded a productivity app that keeps your

calendar and tasks all in one place or maybe you cleaned off the top of your desk.

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