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Lessons from Anthony Hopkins

http://www.successmagazine.com/anthony-hopkins-oscar-winner/PARAMS/article/981 Anthony Hopkins acknowledges that Attention Deficit Disorder and dyslexia are factors in his life. What can we glean from his abundant life as correlates to his success? Sanctuary - “a place that allows him to do all the things he needs to do” Tension -”I think it’s very necessary to have a tension in life that keeps us moving. If we become totally peaceful, we die.” Anger -”“I believe that there’s something good in nature, in that if you have something that you think is a problem, which I thought I had as a kid, it turns into a great gift if you use it that way. Because it gives you enough GRRRR to help you rise above it, or it sucks you down into the mud. Sometimes a good degree of constructive anger can get you going. And I was a pretty angry kid.” Self-doubt - “Self-doubt–and I’m...

Reading Before the Lines

Do you need a strategy that helps you read more effectively? I offer one that is all about the questions. First, why are you reading?  PLEASURE?  WORK? SCHOOL? TO LEARN? Second, before you pick up the book, what do you think it will tell you? What are your questions? What are the categories of information (if non-fiction)? Write them down. Go hunting for them. Make a drawing to fill in the pieces. Keep a pen going in the margins (or on stickies) if you have questions, thoughts, tangents. Third, if an article, what is the first paragraph about? What is the last paragraph about? Now go read the details if you need to. If a book, what are the contents, what is the first chapter about, last ? Now go read the rest of the chapters if you need to. Fourth, who wrote this? What is their angle? Why should...
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Coaching for Learners of All Ages

Coaching for Learners of All Ages

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How do I get my ADHD child to spend more time on homework?

Guest blog entry by Candace Taylor of Addmirable Women Coaching http://web.mac.com/candace_taylor/addmirablewoman/Welcome_Home.html A common, and usually heartfelt question for sure.  But I confess that my off the cuff answer is, “You don’t!” There are some some words on my No Fly list in coaching, and parenting, adolescents.  “Get” is one of them.  Parents who persist in...
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