Carol Gignoux
M.Ed., SCAC
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ADHD Coach, Business Consultant and Speaker Expert
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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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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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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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Maintaining Peace withi Ourselves
It is especially hard these days to maintain a center of equilibrium amid the pressures and stresses of daily life. It’s difficult to escape reading or hearing stories and murky pieces of information that bring us down, making us question the sanity of the world and the viability of our own futures. We long for supportive connections with others, loving communities, and homes where we can escape from the chaos and bad news.
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Being True to Yourself
I am so encouraged by the positive reactio I am receiving to my “Vampire Thinking©” series of articles. Many of you have written to me to share your personal stories about the positive changes you are making as a result of understanding your self-incriminating behaviors. You are becoming committed to ending your self-sabotage once and for all. Many of you want to bring into your life the wonderful opportunities and relationships you have been missing.
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Top 3 Practices for Successful ADHD Couples
Today it is more important than ever to learn good strategies for having meaningful and happy relationships. For couples where one or both of the partners have ADHD, this can prove to be particularly challenging.
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Moving from Vampire Thinking© to Being an Asset
To live as an asset, we must live fully in the present. Most of us live as if we were half alive. The Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, observes that we walk around more dead-like than alive-like. He says we tend to live in the past where life has already happened or we live in the future where we don’t know what will happen and we ignore being in the moment where all of life happens. So in other words, we are not alive to life.
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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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Office MVP: The ADHD Team Player
“What is my role in life? How do I fit in?” These are questions that everyone on earth has given some thought to in their lives. For some, the answers are harder to find than others – especially when some intangible difference separates people into “us” and “them,” making those searching questions present themselves more often. For better or worse, having attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is one of those categories that makes a person wonder more than once, “What is my place in my community?”r
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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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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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Are you someone with ADHD?
Then your greatest asset is your rapid fire thinking! With this asset, you are able to come to the best conclusions quickly, effectively, and way ahead of the people who don’t have ADHD. Let other people around you do the organizing, paperwork, and the detail managing. Your job is to create optimum solutions to important problems and trust that you can do that. Creativity! Inventiveness! Quick problem solving!
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You Can go from Fear to Fearless: Getting Fear under YOUR Control
Vampire Thinking Series # 6 So many of us don’t realize how fear drives our everyday world. Fear is often behind our lack of authentically loving relationships, unsatisfying jobs, disappointment in our selves, bad money management, and lackluster lives.
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Live ADHD Free, LLC
Carol Gignoux, founder of Live ADHD Free, LCC is committed to the concept that anyone with ADHD can manage their limitations and nurture their talents to achieve a full, successful and satisfying life. With adaptable strategies and a variety of services, this team can help any ADHD’er achieve his or her dreams.
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ADDInsights.com
Find achievement and fulfillment through learning to manage ADHD, cognitive belief change, empowerment through habit change, and re-training your brain to attract the results you really want, all from a coaching and psychological point of view.
June 3, 2009
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ADDinsights
ADHD Coaching, Speaking, Consulting, Coach Training, Tele-class Leading
February 24, 2009
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Attention Deficit Disorder Specialist
Increase in understanding, appreciating and successfully implementing better practices with Attention Deficit Disorder
January 24, 2008
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ADDinsights
ADHD Coaching, Speaking, Consulting, Coach Training, Tele-class Leading
September 23, 2007
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ADDinsights
ADHD Coaching, Speaking, Consulting, Coach Training, Tele-class Leading
September 23, 2007
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ADDinsights
ADHD Coaching, Speaking, Consulting, Coach Training, Tele-class Leading
September 23, 2007
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ADDinsights
ADHD Coaching, Speaking, Consulting, Coach Training, Tele-class Leading
September 23, 2007
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ADDinsights
ADHD Coaching, Speaking, Consulting, Coach Training, Tele-class Leading
September 23, 2007
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ADDinsights
ADHD Coaching, Speaking, Consulting, Coach Training, Tele-class Leading
September 23, 2007
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ADDinsights
ADHD Coaching, Speaking, Consulting, Coach Training, Tele-class Leading
September 23, 2007
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.