Ask Dr. Svec

• The ADHD Work Week
  2012-01-23
  
  

  Just how many hours do you work each week? I get asked this question a lot. I usually respond by saying that I work from 40 to 80 hours a week, and sometimes it goes up to 100 hours a week. It can be difficult to explain, given the fact that I just got back from a skiing week up north and still managed to put in my 40 hour minimum work week. Since I started using the self-task focus matching strategy that we discuss in our book www.theadhdfix.com, I have been able to increase my productivity and quality of life significantly. Here is how it works:

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• Don’t Make New Years’ Resolutions
  2012-01-09
  
  

  It happens every year. You start feeling guilty about your money management skills, diet, lack of exercise, or lack of commitment to your partner. So you decide that January is the time to make changes. You decide to save 10% of your earnings each month, eat health food, exercise at least 4 times a week, quit smoking, or spend more quality time with your spouse. You make these promises as part of your annual New Years’ Ritual. One big problem; you’ve done this every year for the past ten years, but nothing changes. As an adult with ADHD it is even less likely to happen. Here’s why, with some suggested solutions.

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Dr. Svec’s Health and Wealth Newsletter

• Change this Newsletter?
  2011-08-22

  After my last discussion on “umbrella parenting” and judging by some of the emails I received, many of you had questions, comments, and suggestions of what I can do with my ideas. Some time ago, my article on Tiger Woods likely garnered the majority of negative emails in my career when I suggested that we should not be surprised by his womanizing, because he was “just” a golfer, and after all golfers are not real athletes anyway, and being good or great at one thing does not mean you will necessarily be a great father or husband. If you are wondering, I still feel the same way, and unfortunately bad “karma” has put a bit of a stall on his golfing career as predicted. When you do bad things to good people “karma” or whatever works for you, likely evens things out.

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• Are You an Umbrella Parent?
  2011-08-11

  The radio announcer could not stop talking about something you have likely heard and witnessed many times. A child in public was having a hissy fit, assaulting adults because they did not get their own way. In this case, the story was of an 8-year old girl, pepper sprayed by police because she refused to settle down when they asked. You have likely witnessed many situations such as this where children are used to getting their own way ALL the time, and therefore, unable to handle the realities of being told “no” or stop. I call the parenting strategy that is nurturing this generation of “entitled” children, Umbrella Parents. Umbrella parenting has as its goal the sole purpose of protecting a child from the realities-failures of life. Not even rain should fall on their pristine styled hair. Here are some characteristics of this parenting style. Is this you?

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