How ADHD Affects Home Organization

Understanding the Role of the 8 Key Executive Functions of the Mind

By: Lisa Woodruff

Narrated by: Lisa Woodruff

Do you walk in a room to organize and find yourself paralyzed and overwhelmed?

Do you find yourself spending money on organizing solutions that don't work?

Do you feel like you put in effort but never make any progress?

Or maybe you know exactly what you want to do, and yet for some reason, you just can't get started.

Organizing isn't easy. And having ADHD doesn't make it any easier.

But it doesn't have to be impossible.

If you have ADHD and you've been struggling with organization, it doesn't mean there's something wrong with you.

It just means it's time to try working with your brain instead of against it.

That means:

• Understanding how your mind works
• Recognizing your strengths and weaknesses
• Finding the strategies that work for you

In her latest book, Lisa Woodruff explores the executive functions of the mind that directly affect your ability to organize your home: flexible thinking, working memory, self-monitoring, task initiation, planning, and organization. Along the way, she provides tips and strategies for overcoming obstacles - tools you can use to get the organized house you've been dreaming of.

As a professional organizer, productivity coach, and former teacher, Lisa Woodruff knows that organization is more than just 15-minute daily tasks or cute ways to use fun containers. She's successfully parented, taught, and professionally organized people who struggle with ADHD, and she has been able to help hundreds of women in Cincinnati, Ohio - and thousands of women around the world - get their homes organized and keep them that way.

©2017 Lisa Woodruff (P)2017 Lisa Woodruff

The right kind of information for my needs!

Lisa Woodruff has saved me so much time. I am grateful for her to the point information for organizing and all the tips I have now has made it easier to actually make the progress I needed to. 🙌

Short, Sweet, Helpful, and To-the-Point!

Thank you!!! For making sense of my ADD habits for me so I can use them to the best of my abilities. I am signing up for 100 Days. Also, Lisa, you remind me of my sister, also Lisa, who lives in WI...I am in CO. She is also a teacher and excellent at organizing. I had always wished to be more like her that way. Maybe there’s hope after all! Thank you, again!!!

Helpful

This book is helpful for understanding, managing and accepting the difficulties for people don’t know how to successfully maintain compartmentalizing tasks, declutter, organize and where to start.

Okay - good for encouraging you to start

There was a few good tips that I will use but over all nothing you couldn’t get from googling the same topics. It did encourage me to start and get back in to the groove of this so if anything…that’s worth the time to pick this up.

ADHD Mom of 4 With ADHD

Being a mom with ADHD and having four children with ADHD and one also struggles with High Functioning Autism, this book has given me light at the end of my Chaos Tunnel! I felt like she was talking to me giving me personal instruction to help me with my overwhelming life. THANK YOU!

not for everyone

the narration is good, but I don't think 4 chapters -no matter how short they are- should come before the content. she even says something like "you're thinking- get to the point, already" and then doesn't. my main complaint is that there is no indication that this is geared towards a middle aged mother home life type. (refers to kids and sports and such examples) but she did mention some important aspects of adhd and she differentiated types of issues instead of putting us in a box. that is something I've never heard someone without ADHD do.

Encouraging—- attainable!

Lisa has her homework done and knows what it takes for anyone to feel it’s attainable! Love her passion for living an organized life!

Awesome Book

For someone that suffers with adult ADHD I have found it challenging to start and know where to start. Lisa puts this into perspective and guides you along the way. I've looked into the podcast and youtube videos as well.
Lisa, thanks for putting in all the effort that it took to write this book. I will continue to recommend it and your services to others.

Excellent!!! Listen to it twice !!!!!!!

I would put this book on to listen to while I cleaned/decluttered. It helped my adhd so much and she was so informative. Great book !!!!

Slow start.

Slow start but ended up with tons of notes on future plans. Even cleaned while I listened. The voiceover was not my favorite.