Carol Gignoux
M.Ed., SCAC
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ADHD Coach, Business Consultant and Speaker Expert
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- Corporate Training, Seminars, ADHD Coaching, ADHD Coach Training, Teleclasses
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- Author, Speaker, Business Owner, Life Coach
Carol Gignoux, M.Ed., is Boston’s longest-serving ADD/ADHD Coach and Coach Trainer and the founder of Live ADHD Free (formerly ADD Insights). Her approach is focused on the individual, with tailored strategies for long-lasting success. Carol serves her client base of children, teenagers, students, adults, couples, and executives with sincerity and support. Combining her four decades of experience with cutting-edge research, Carol is also available as a business consultant and family counselor, bringing out the best in an ADHD group. Nationally recognized as a public speaker, Carol conducts seminars and workshops throughout the United States, spreading her message: ADHD is not a handicap, but a different learning style that can become a valuable asset. She also provides her expert advice through her popular blog (http://liveadhdfree.com/blog/) and newsletter (http://addinsights.com/newsletter-archives/). Reach Carol today at 617-524-7670 or carol@liveadhdfree.com.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Top Three Ways to Live Successfully with ADHD
http://addinsights.com/featured/top-three-ways-to-live-successfully-with-adhd/
Is ADHD a Myth?
http://addinsights.com/articles/is-adhd-a-myth/
Solving Workplace Challenges for People with ADHD: Time & Task Management
http://addinsights.com/articles/time-and-task-management-for-adhd-in-the-workplace/
Solving Workplace Challenges for People with ADHD: Distractibility/Impulsivity
http://addinsights.com/articles/solving-workplace-challenges-for-people-with-adhd-distractibilityimpulsivity/
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Solving Workplace Challenges for People with ADHD: Organization
Because of how the ADHD brain functions, people with this condition commonly experience several workplace challenges that can negatively impact their performance. These challenges include: Time/Task Management, Distractibility/Impulsivity; Working Memory; Organization; and Communication/Building Relationships. So the question is: How do these proven brain challenges effect real work accomplishments on the job? In this article we’re gong to talk about: Organization
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Don't Let Vampire Thinking Steal Your Dreams
I knew I needed to come up with a better name for this thinking type. It is a habit of mind we tend to take for granted as part of our mental make up and how we do things. But it has a powerful pull on our minds, sort of like a magnet the size of King Cong. I work consciously to identify this issue both in my own life and the lives of my clients. So it was no surprise when an image came to me that I feel best describes it: the image of blood sucking vampires.
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Vampire Thinking Tricksters
Last week I introduced the concept I recently coined called Vampire Thinking. Vampire Thinking is the compulsion we all have to suck the juice right out of our possibilities and opportunities. Instead of acting on a good idea, we excel at finding a slew of reasons we should kill it as soon a possible and move on to continuing our “safe” existence. I’m sure you can relate to this idea because you engage in vampire thinking more frequently then you know. How often do you talk yourself right out of what you really want in order that you may choose for the safe option? And your reasons?
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The Importance of Self Acceptance
Karen is a 23 year old woman who felt extremely uncomfortable around people. She originally contacted ADD Insights for coaching services, because she felt she had nothing to offer. By her own admission, she felt she was unattractive and had nothing interesting to say. Karen did not attend social events when she could avoid them and stayed in the background when she was forced to appear by virtue of appeals from friends or family. She was not making new friends in college and did not date.
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Solving Workplace Challenges for People with ADHD: Working Memory
Because of how the ADHD brain functions, people with this condition commonly experience several workplace challenges that can negatively impact their performance. These challenges include: Time/Task Management, Distractibility/Impulsivity; Working Memory; Organization; and Communication/Building Relationships. So the question is: How do these proven brain challenges effect real work accomplishments on the job? In this article we’re gong to talk about: Working Memoryr Working memory enables one to hold facts in mind while manipulating information.
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You Can Heal Yourself: Trust and Relationships
For many of us trust is not necessarily an easy thing. It can be a big word - loaded with disappointments and few happy memories. We hesitate when we are faced with the desire or need to trust someone and are not comfortable when they trust us. We fear what may happen by making ourselves that vulnerable and then we worry and obsess about it. Many of us feel trust is impossible and in fact we have taken a vow never to trust certain relationships and situations ever again. We can’t imagine allowing that kind of pain to hurt us in the future.
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Solving Workplace Challenges for People with ADHD: Time / Task Management
Because of how the ADHD brain functions, people with this condition commonly experience several workplace challenges that can negatively impact their performance. These challenges include: Time/Task Management, Distractibility/Impulsivity; Working Memory; Organization; and Communication/Building Relationships. So the question is: How do these proven brain challenges effect real work accomplishments on the job? In this article we’re going to talk about: TIME/TASK MANAGEMENT
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Is ADHD a Myth?
Is ADHD really a legitimate brain condition? Or is it a made-up diagnosis used to explain aberrant behavior? Is the ADHD label an opportunity for some people to slough off responsibilities and get a pass on completing necessary tasks? Does it give people an excuse for their mistakes and their behavior? These are examples of frequently heard comments and questions from people who question the validity of ADHD. They are often heard to say: “Oh, yeah, everyone now-a-days seems to have ADD”.
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Solving Workplace Challenges for People with ADHD: Distractability/Impulsivity
Because of how the ADHD brain functions, people with this condition commonly experience several workplace challenges that can negatively impact their performance. These challenges include: Time/Task Management, Distractibility/Impulsivity; Working Memory; Organization; and Communication/Building Relationships.
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File Like a Champ: ADHD & Taxes
It’s tax time! Are you ready? If your answer is a loud “NO” – you’re not alone. Tax season seems to be one of those universal experiences that makes everyone grumpy and anxious. The whole system seems especially designed to confound ADHDers: first, keep track of every little expense for 365 days, then slog through pages of confusing and redundant paperwork, all to fork over a check of your hard-ea ed money – and don’t forget, you’ll get slapped with penalties if you make a mistake. What a nightmare.
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Abandon These Four Marriage-Killing ADHD Habits
Left unchecked, there are a handful of pretty normal bad habits that can turn into relationship killers. The patterns of communication listed below can start innocently enough. You probably just don’t know any better. And for a while these cycles let out some tension and can be laughed off later. But given enough time, these bad habits can corrode the bond between spouses to the point of disrepair. See if your “harmless” habit made the list, and if so, start working towards a healthier and more respectful union today. 1. Putting Words in Each Other’s Mouthr
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Lasting Motivation for ADHDers
What do you want? This might be one of the most loaded questions in the English language. What is your long-term, big-picture, no-guts-no-glory goal? Not to be morbid, but what is the accomplishment you would be proudest of in your obituary? For adults with ADHD, it’s common for those dreams to fall along the lines of healthier interpersonal relationships, steadier success in the workplace, or a deep and healing sense of self-confidence. These are beautiful goals. These are the sorts of accomplishments that can turn lives around.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Carol Gignoux
"The best way you can predict your future is to create it"
Stephen Covey
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself
to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader"
Paul J. Meyer
"Are you BORED with your life? Then THROW yourself into some work you BELIEVE in with all your heart, LIVE for it, DIE for it, and you will find HAPPINESS that you had thought could never be YOURS"
Dale Carnegie
"Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy"
Earl Nightingale
"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active.Show up more often"
Brian Tracy
'It is always your next move"
Napoleon Hill
"If you truly want to make a big change, you've got to tolerate the "in-between" time.That's the period in which we let go of who we know ourselves to be in order to allow for the possibility of who we might become"
Katherine Woodward Thomas
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder"
William Joseph Slim
"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with or friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce"
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step"
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery"
James Joyce
"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way"
Dr. Seuss
"Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in something or someone outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it cmes from the way you think"
Wayne Dyer
"When you create something, you always create it first in thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioing pleasure, satisfaction, and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations and events which conform to our positive expectations"
Shakti Gawain
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them"
Kahlil Gibran
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."
Robert J. Collier
"Working hard overcomes a whole lot of obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, endearing characteristic of successful people"
Marsha Evans
"There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only, single individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts"
Steve Chandler
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Please visit www.addinsights.com for more information regarding Attention Deficit Disorder and ways in which I teach individuals to better manage their ADHD. I also work with organizations teaching managers, supervisors and employees how to better manage ADHD in the workplace.
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ADHD Coach Training Program
ADDinsights' unique ADHD coaching curriculum goes beyond managing the effects of ADHD. Our coaches are also trained to focus on the personal transformation of their clients. They learn to help their clients uncover and adjust the foundational, core problems preventing them from seeing themselves as confident and capable. With these core issues resolved the coach can focus on the client stepping into a whole new way of being that’s far bigger and more powerful than they could ever imagine.