ADD and ADHD golf lessons

A big part of life is learning to live in the moment while focusing on the future. The choices we make about what we remember can help or hurt us. There is no rule or law that says we have to remember our mistakes or “bad swings”. When you look toward the future and allow yourself to focus on the moment you can create ideal results. Everyone will have challenges to overcome. The important thing to remember is that you can create your own future. You can imagine your ideal outcome and repeat this vision in your mind and your subconscious mind will take over if you relax and let go.

Once we accept that we have control over what we allow to stay in our memory we can begin to constantly improve and grow in all areas of life. Charles Barkley is one of the greatest basketball players of all time. He obviously had a tremendous amount of mental strength and athletic ability. However, he has struggled with his golf game. I was watching the Hank Haney project as he works with Charles to get back on top of his game. It is a great show that should prove inspirational to anyone. He is working on letting go of past experiences on the golf course as he changes his swing. Barkley has made great strides. He is working as hard as anyone and is putting his discipline to work at becoming a better golfer. The reality is that when he gets his club in the right positions on his back swing his brain will release the breaks. Hank Haney said that Barkley did not have a mental block; he said it was an issue with his swing. I agree with Haney 100%. The combination of preparation, practice and relaxation will release the power of our subconscious mind and the infinite creativity of our brain. There is a tendency for people to blame their unwanted outcome solely on lack of will power or mental strength. The golf swing or any athletic endeavor can reveal that success is always a combination of harnessing the power of our mind in combination with hard, hard work. Preparation can be done in the mind and on the course but the quickest way to success is to do both. If you can get your club in the right position at the top of the back swing you body and mind will take over and allow you to create a beautiful swing.

When your back swing is suspect your mind knows it. Anything you do on the down swing is really just your subconscious mind trying to get the club on the ball squarely. A square hit produces solid contact. Frustration with a bad golf swing should be taken as a sign that your brain wants to hit good golf shots. If you take a lesson and the instructor put club in the right position at the top you will then be able to freely release the club on the down swing. Our natural hand and eye coordination is always working on getting the club to the ball square. If we can get in position to allow a more natural path to the back of the ball our mind will release the breaks and no longer need to bombard us with warning signals that are telling us we are off course.

Get yourself in the right position in anything and your brakes will release themselves.

Medication won't do it all

Medication used in treatment of ADHD is often highly effective and necessary. However, we all need to continue to work on our concentration. Medication can help us lead more productive and healthy lives but it really just a primer that allows us to develop our coping mechanisms and focus. Our work lives typically give us countless opportunities to learn, grow and improve. We have to carefully monitor our activities and results. If we are not achieving our desired results we can gives us clues that something is not working. There is nothing wrong with evaluating our situation, being somewhat unhappy with a particular result, accept the reality of the situation, and then set out to try a different method. Stress at home, depression or being over tired can make manageable ADHD turn the corner to unmanageable. I we are experiencing an abnormally high level of stress we need to make an extra effort to "pay attention" at work before we add to our problems. Impulsive tends to increase, long term planning tends to decrease and decision making me become more inconsistent. When things like this happen it is time for a vacation or an additional visit to therapist to talk or change medication. Once action is taken to address an issue it will immediately relieve some of the pressure we are feeling and we will be on our way back to normal. Our medication will not tell us if we are slipping so push yourself to pay attention and be sure to evaluate your work without fail. We will see better results at work and at home and eventually we will see that we can make small course corrections instead of waiting until we need a extra large course correction.

Job Choices and Preparing for Recessions with ADHD

If you are anything like me you will be interested in highly stimulating jobs. People with Adhd are often attracted to fast past, highly stimulating jobs because those are those the ones that keep our attention. There is nothing more enjoyable than having a job that stirs your brain and allow you to easily get into your peak performance state with ease. However, often the qualities that lead you to your price profession can get in the way of success in your field. The need for high stimulus often leads to the desire for instant results. There are few jobs that provide instant results on the job and ever fewer that provide instant results when you consider the degree and length of training to qualify to perform ion such lines of work.
For example, choosing to be a stock trading can be perfect to hold your attention. It can also be exciting because if you do well you can make large amounts of money seemingly in an “instant.” Yet the tendency to act impulsively to fix problems, change direction or just to stop the pain of seeing losses may be much stronger in someone with ADHD. There is a common “syndrome” regarding stocks know as over trading. It is stems from fear of loss and lack of discipline or impulsivity. As most people learn throughout life that it is much harder to maintain discipline or long term perspective as pressure of a situation increases. As losses mount before our eyes we all have to make a number of critical decisions in an instant before we make a move. In stocks and in live technology has added to the volatility or rate and duration of change in all things. Instant access to data has a dramatic effect on life. Years ago stock trading was done over the phone and stock values were seen once a day in the business section of the news paper. Today we watch the stock values changing by the second. Success in stocks and most endeavors, especially in our current environment, calls for strengthening of focus and our ability to put blinders on at times in order to block out the micro fluctuations of data. The best thing anyone can do for themselves is to start early on in life to put a safety net in place so you can give yourself time to prepare for a new job if necessary. One way to do this is to start only on building up your sources of passive income through real estate or having a website or online business that will generate income without constant minute by minute monitoring. Our current recession has brought the necessity of having a safety net even more clearing into our sightline. The old rule of thumb for having a nest egg or reserve account with 6 or 12 months might need to be revised to 12-24 months. Our current crisis will, hopefully, remain rare but it is worth considering a change in common wisdom. It might be necessary to combine the 6-12 month reserve with your tried and true methods of generating passive income in case our “typical” recessions start to become less “typical.”