Complicate vs simplify

Occasionally I get this lesson handed to me and I swear I’ll remember it forever.

Then I forget it.

I think they call that lessons NOT learned. But here we go…

The bottom line of dealing with ADD is to simplify.

Simplify. Simplify, Simplify.

Instead I tend to complicate, complicate, complicate.

Carbs and focus – the connection

“I’ve been gaining weight since I turned 50 and I can’t stay away from the carbs!” a midlife ADDiva told me last week by phone. I can relate. Oh, I can definitely relate.

Yesterday, I picked up my PostIt-filled copy of Mastering the Zone by Barry Sears – the place I turn when I am finally ready to return to a more sane eating pattern. There, on page 37, was a chart that simplified the connection between focus and carbohydrates.

HOPE – ADDiva lessons from an election

It’s been three days since Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States. No matter whether you are ecstatic or bummed about the outcome, the election offers profound implications that should give all ADDivas a dose of that magic elixir: HOPE.

Why? Because we, like Obama, face a world that uses rigid standards to separate “good” from “bad” and “right” from “wrong.”