Leveraging the Asset of ADHD—From Michael Phelps to a Regular Little Boy

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Leveraging the Asset of ADHD—From Michael Phelps to a Regular Little Boy

I wouldn't trade my ADHD brain for anything. Love it. I also love to see high acheivers like Michael Phelps who has ADHD highlighted as it helps remove the unfortunate stigma around a brain difference that I don't see as either a deficit nor a disorder. Sadly most people don't see it as the tremendous asset it can be and only see the deficit/disorder side to it.

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Daily Romance & Valentine's ALL Year

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Daily Romance & Valentine's ALL Year

Whew! You got here before Valentine's Day... OR... Oops! You're getting this too late after Valentine's Day? Either way, great! Because, this post isn't for Valentine's Day, it's for taking care of your relationship with great care throughout the whole year, and not just on one day. For example, for our tenth anniversary, I collected and printed or wrote out 365 love quotes and poems and put them in the jars pictured above. This way she could read have random love note/Valentine every day that year. Further, they are a constant reminder year after year of the time and care I took that Valentine's Day to let her know for many days and many years how much she matters to me.

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Busting Holiday Stress

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It's the most wonderful time of the year! And it can be the most stressful.

In 2004, The American Psychological Association conducted a holiday stress survey and identified the top six stressors as follows:

1. Money
2. Gift-giving
3. Lack of time
4. Families
5. Diet
6. Children’s issues

This guide addresses each of these stressors in depth, as well as many others, with a focus on providing many more solutions than there are problems. That’s the way it should be.

This guide covers hundreds of ways to bust, cool, chill, deal and cope with all the various stresses of the holidays.

Here's what you'll get:

  • Hundreds and hundreds of practical, useful and effective stress-busting tips, strategies, mindsets, and techniques for dealing with every aspect of holiday stress.
  • Worksheets to help you put the concepts into action.
  • The 30-Day Stress Tracker and the 31-60-Day "Overlearning!" Stress-Tracker

Pick yours up today at bardos.net/HolidayStressBusters

Just take a peek at the Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION

  • THE HOLIDAYS ARE NOT THE SAME FOR EVERYONE
  • STRESS 101
  • SIGNS & SYMPTOMS OF STRESS
  • ASSESS YOUR STRESS

WELL-BEING: PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, & MENTAL STRESS-BUSTERS

  • PHYSICAL HEALTH STRESS-BUSTERS
  • SIMPLE PHYSICAL & MENTAL WORKOUTS WORK
  • RELAXATION & MINDFULNESS
  • STRESS-BUSTING ATTITUDES & MINDSETS
  • MOOD STRESS-BUSTERS
  • MENTAL ILLNESS STRESS BUSTERS
  • GET HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT

RELATIONSHIP & FAMILY STRESS-BUSTERS

  • RELATIONSHIP & FAMILY CONFLICT STRESS-BUSTERS
  • BUSTING STRESS WITH THE CHILDREN
  • CONNECTING WITH YOUR KIDS OVER THE HOLIDAYS
  • SEPARATION & DIVORCE STRESS-BUSTERS
  • STEP-FAMILY STRESS-BUSTERS
  • BEREAVEMENT & GRIEVING OVER THE HOLIDAYS
  • MOURNING THE LOSS OF THE PAST YEAR
  • LONELINESS & ISOLATION STRESS-BUSTERS
  • USING SOCIAL SUPPORTS AS STRESS-BUSTERS

TIME & MONEY STRESS-BUSTERS

  • FINANCIAL STRESS-BUSTERS
  • TIME PRESSURE STRESS-BUSTERS
  • GIFT-GIVING STRESS-BUSTERS
  • SHOPPING STRESS-BUSTERS
  • HOLIDAY MEAL STRESS-BUSTERS

ADDITIONAL STRESS-BUSTERS

  • COUNTER COMMERCIALISM
  • EXAMINE YOUR TRADITIONS
  • TRAVELING STRESS-BUSTERS
  • SOME ADDITIONAL STRESS BUSTERS
  • DO ONE THING DIFFERENT
  • HOLIDAY STRESS-BUSTING RESOURCE GUIDE
  • SHARE YOUR STRESS BUSTING TIPS!

Pick yours up today at bardos.net/HolidayStressBusters


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Husband Training 101

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Husband Training 101

I'm giving a presentation called "Husband Training 101.” Some people have recoiled against the choice of word "training" as they think it sounds demeaning somehow--like training a dog (what's demeaning about training a dog? Okay, I know, I get it--the problem is that I'm supposedly comparing husbands to dogs. Am I? No, I are one! Husband, not dog, that is...). My point is that good training in ANY aspect of life tends towards mucho better results (sports, work, school, and yes, marriage, family, parenting AND even husbands).

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