Relationships and Adult ADD - Adult ADD ADHD and Relationships Relationships and Adult ADD All relationships present challenges at some point in time. ADD / ADHD can certainly have a unique impact within relationships. Kate Kelly, founder of ADDed Dimensions Coaching and author of You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! 10 Things I, As a Developer, Wish More Entrepreneurs Knew A few weeks ago, Stephen Anderson wrote a piece entitled “29 Things I, as a designer, wish more tech startups knew.” It is a bold contribution to a greater discussion of building better startups. I’m David Pierce, one of the developers at Startup Weekend, and I love studying developer teams in young companies and seeing what we can learn about building better companies.
Brain Foods Pictures Slideshow: What to Eat for Better Concentration (1) Liv Friis-Larsen / iStockphoto (2) Christopher Robbins / Digital Vision / Getty Images (3) Tom Grill / Photographer's Choice / Getty Images (4) Lew Robertson / Photographer's Choice (5) Rauzier-Riviere / StockFood Creative / Getty Images (6) Creativ Studio Heinemann / Getty Images Social skills activities for children and teenagers Social skills activities for children and teens: Evidence-based ideas to help kids communicate, connect, empathize, and read minds © 2015 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved Social skills activities put to the test Get Organized At Home With A Home Managemen So you think businesspeople are the only folks who need a personal planner? Think again: families need an organizer, too, to keep life moving smoothly on the home front! A planner for the entire household allows anyone--child, visitor, babysitter--easy access to the information they need. It's a one-stop information center for busy families. How will you use it?
Startup Therapy: Ten questions to ask yourself every month by In the last post I beat you to death about ditching your business plan but failed to provide an alternative. Okay okay, “Planning == Bad,” but the supposed benefits of planning are still important: designing for profitability, understanding your customers and competitors, focusing your attention, deciding what’s worth doing next, changing directions, and ensuring the founders agree on important issues. To help you, I’m stealing a trick from therapists. Cartoon by Andertoons Therapists don’t tell you what to do.
How Do I Love Thee? Experts Count 8 Ways Credit: DreamstimeWhile the rest of us trade pink teddy bears and chocolate hearts, some scientists are putting love under the microscope – and the magnetic resonance imaging machine. But what is it they are studying, anyway? For this Valentine's Day, LiveScience decided to ask the experts a question once left to early-'90s chart-topping dance hits: What is love? Here's what they said. Author Bio Stephanie Pappas
5 Sure-Fire Ways to Keep From Ruining Your Perfectly Healthy Relationship A study published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology says excessive worrying can be a detriment to a perfectly happy communion. (Great, now I can add that to my list!) It makes sense to me that focusing on the negative can turn a plum of a relationship into a sour apple, but what else should we NOT being doing if we want to keep things healthy?
Founders: You don’t own your employees [Ed. note: This is in response to a post by David Hauser entitled, "The Startup Side Project Bubble" which you can read here: So many founders forget something simple: You do not own your employees. They are human beings with their own passions, interests and lives. The Neuroscience of Romanticized Love – Part 1: Emotion Taboos True love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love…it is correct to say, ‘Love is as love does.’” ~ SCOTT PECK Romanticized ideals for love, and romantic love that leads to long term healthy companionship love with all the trimmings, produce two dramatically different outcomes. Many of the futile attempts of partners to get the love they want in their couple relationships today have to do with “romanticized love” ideals, infused into Western society during the Middle Ages. These ideals, in effect, impose unfair expectations on men and women alike, with regard to what it means to be a “successful” man or woman. A few decades ago the idea of love as an addiction seemed absurd and controversial. “Most all relationships harbor some elements of addiction,” Dr.
14 Revealing Signs You Love Your Startup Job You may not be frequently giving out an embarrassingly gushing smile and you might not write little love notes during your lunch break. But, there are ways to tell if you love your job. Of course, no job is perfect -- even the best of relationships have their down days. We all have to do things we don’t like. ADHD/Special Needs ... Misunderstood Kids Outside the Box! Not everyone fits inside the box we call the classroom and classroom structures--students and teachers included. Learn to allow students to hang out of the box a little...and allow yourself to do the same, when appropriate. As a teacher, I am called to advocate, not judge; I am called to encourage, not predict; I am called to learn my subject--my students .
How do you stay motivated when you’re not making any money? In the comments for my previous post, two totally different people asked me what appears to be the exact same question: “How’d you get past that initial period when you weren’t making any money? How’d you stay motivated?”