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By Keath Low, About.com Guide to ADD / ADHD

Adult ADD and Treatment - Mutual Life Coaching

Monday August 18, 2008

Though individuals with ADD/ADHD have the talent and skill to reach their goals, they often have a difficult time sustaining the arousal and motivation to accomplish them. It can be a real struggle to maintain focus on a longer term goal or to even remember that goal, especially when it is so easy for those with ADD to get distracted by anything that is more stimulating at the moment. Sometimes it is beneficial to have an outside source to help keep focus and accountability.

An About.com user recently wrote in to share how a strategy he calls “mutual life coaching” saved him and got him back on the right path.

Click on Partnering with an ADD Friend to read more.

Do you think mutual life coaching would be helpful for you? Please respond in the poll below.

If readers are interested I will set up a folder on our ADD / ADHD Forum so people can connect. Please feel free to post your thoughts in the comments section below or you can email me at add.guide@about.com.

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Comments

August 24, 2008 at 1:22 pm
(1) concentrate says:

This article really hit home. That first paragraph is the story of my life. A friend and I are giving this a try starting this week. I’ll check back in here in a month (I put it on my calendar!) to report how it worked.

August 24, 2008 at 9:14 pm
(2) add says:

Concentrate,
I am so, so happy that you are giving this a try. Please do let us know how things work out. I am going to post a “Partnering with a Friend” folder in the forums soon, so others can connect with a partner if they don’t have one locally.
With warm, happy wishes.
Keath

August 26, 2008 at 3:03 pm
(3) add says:

Here is the link to the “Partnering with a Friend” folder in our ADD / ADHD Forum.

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-add&lgnF=y

Good luck everyone!
Keath

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