Ever Feel Like your Drinking from a Fire Hose ? (Passion Pause)

Have you ever been around an AD/HD person who has found their new Passion? We want to know everything . . . NOW! We are relentless! “Sleep? What’s that? “

We are driven . . . with all else falling by the wayside. Eating, kids, spouse, shelter (no door knobs being fixed, kids noses being wiped, or honey-do lists being checked off at this stage of the game) very little else gets done once an AD/HD person finds their new Passion and starts to “Hyper-Focus”. And then, after a few days,weeks or months (depending on our age) we finally hit the wall. The crash can be messy. Then is when we say ” I feel like I have been drinking from a firehose”.

Ah Yes . . . This can be the point at which the AD/HD person has come to an ever so familiar crossroad . . . once again. Will we “Burn Out” or continue on and fulfill our dreams (as Leonardo, Edison, or Churchill? ) Or will this be yet another “Thing” left undone or “Phase” we are going through.

I think the older I get the more I want to MAKE SURE I am following my TRUE Passion (My Calling) and not getting sidetracked with things that SEEM new and exciting . . . God Help me to be who you made me to be.

Come back for my next Post . . . where I will uncover a few secrets for ADDers to better handle the Fire Hose.

Fish Out of Water? Ever wonder Why some people just Don’t . . . “FIT IN”

Do you ever feel like you just don’t fit in with the “normal” people? Labeled “irresponsible”, an “underachiever” or a “Dreamer” (usually by a teach or Boss). There is actually another word often used for we “abnormal types” and that is: “MISFITS” . . . Guess what? . . . You are not alone! If you have lost more than one job or just don’t fit in with the crowd at work . . . join the club! There are allot of us misfits around. I just read a great article posted by a well known Internet marketer check it out here:Misfits in Charge

A misfit who finds their Passion . . . is sometimes considered . . . a bit to aggressive.

Creativity . . . Kids . . . Finding your Passion! ADD in Action!

Creativity . . .. thou art a jewel! How often have you told yourself that you are going to sit down and write . . . and then . . . something else came up. If only we needed to write like we needed to eat or sleep . . . at some point in a 2 day period . . . you would be sure to get it DONE . . . or writing starvation would set in! But as important to a parent as eating is investing in the lives of our kids. I have been busy helping my son Jesse Vere (his real name . . . first and middle . . he uses as his stage name for his custom painting business/passion. I have always told my kids to go after their passion and not to settle for a mediocre life and work with no meaning. I am proud of him for going after his dreams. I have really enjoyed side by side with him over these last few days (days I will always cherish as a father). It has been a joy. We will be launching several videos over the next few days that will be the start of his Internet marketing campaign. Here is the first one . . .

(Jesse did not really like this video . . . . to unpolished for his taste . . . and of course I made it!)

Ohhh, for the Great Outdoors! Hiking, Camping, Site Seeing

Y’all,

I don’t know about you but I just love going on a Hike in the great outdoors  . . . not only is it great exercise (extra good for us ADD ers) but it is a great way to bond with your family.  In this case South Eastern AZ is the setting.  We went from a hike in Cochise Stronghold (an amazing place) and then on to Tombstone for a picnic Lunch and then drove 40 miles to the Cheracawa Mountain range (breathtaking spires of Rock) and hiked around this beautiful area for about an hour and a half.  Then on our way back down a most beautiful winding road we came upon several deer. They were right up at the side of the road and did not even seem afraid of us as we drove up close to them and rolled down our window to get a picture. We had such a fun time and by the end of the day . . . we were completely worn out. But it was well worth it. Take your family on a hike or go camping this weekend . . . you will be glad you did!  Check out this slide show (below) of our fun day and a few other photos thrown in just because I wanted to.  lol

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HyperFocus . . . One of our (AD/HD folks) Greatest ASSETS!

Hew!

I just got finished with a long and very tiring day of HYPERFOCUSING . . . an AD/HD Asset I have come to Love . . . and hate. I spent almost the entire day uploading an advertising Video I created for A+ Roofing Solutions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GiIA3iKlu4 onto multiple video sites. I’m sure glad its over. Just as I started writing this post I decided to Google the word Hyperfocus and ran across a wonderful website worth checking out. Pete Quily has a great Blog with some really helpful information for ADD AD/HD folks. He is also a certified Coach and has found his life’s mission in helping ADD AD/HD people with toxic job liberation! A very worthy goal . . . from my perspective. You can find Pete’s Bio at:
http://www.addcoach4u.com/whoispetequily.html

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Top 10 plugins for WordPress newbie

Posted 10 February 2007, by Aaron Russel

Aaron Russell is a multimedia creative designer and miLienzo.com is his creative canvas.

I am officially a WordPress ‘noob’. My site has been live for eight whole days and I’ve a staggering two previous posts under my belt. “Steady on there,” I hear you say. Well that’s not the half of it – I’ve already got 10 plugins installed. And activated!

The WordPress Plugin Database can be a daunting place for the uninitiated. There are hundreds of the little PHP scripts just waiting to be bolted on to your site, and it can be a mystery what half of them do. Even if you know exactly what you need a plugin for, often there can be dozens of them doing seemingly the same thing.

So where does the newbie start? I personally just jumped in, spent hour upon hour of searching, experimentation and trial and error. To help save you the hassle I have gone through, I am listing below my top 10 WordPress plugins one week in.

10. PingFix

As a WordPress noob, I didn’t know what a ‘ping’ was, or what it did. Now I do – WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a ping each time you create a post.

PingFix enhances the built-in ping functionality by pinging only when publishing new posts, not when editing older posts. This prevents excessive pinging which many Update Services may interpret as spam.

Get PingFix now.

9. FeedList

FeedList is a simple little script that allows you to insert any RSS stream anywhere into your site. For instance, you can include your del.icio.us bookmarks, your Diggs, or even the BBC News in your site. This can be used as part of your template (in your sidebar) or placed directly into a blog posting.

Get FeedList now.

8. Another WordPress Meta Plugin

For some reason the standard WordPress install puts no meta data (keywords and descriptions) in your HTML headings. No good if you want people to be able to find your site through search engines.

The rather imaginatively titled Another WordPress Meta Plugin allows you to specify keywords and descriptions for every blog post or page. For category pages keywords are made up of all the keywords from every individual post on that page, after removing the duplicates. This should ensure a unique set of keywords for every page.

Get Another WordPress Meta Plugin now.

7. Ultimate Google Analytics

If you love stats, and who doesn’t, then you’ll love Google Analytics. It crunches numbers like you’ve never seen numbers crunched before. There are pie-charts, bar-charts, and funky little maps that tell you how many people from Azerbaijan are visiting your site. Best of all, it’s free!

The Ultimate Google Analytics plugin automatically inserts the tiny bit of code that allows Google to count all your visitors and create all those lovely charts. It also allows tracking of outgoing links and downloads, which some of the other Google Analytics plugins don’t.

Get Ultimate Google Analytics now.

6. Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form

I love it when I get an email from a complete stranger. I really do. That’s what the Internet is all about – connecting with people. I don’t like it so much when that complete stranger then sends dozens of emails trying to sell me pharmaceuticals of a dubious nature.

The Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form allows you to effortlessly slip a contact form into your site to enable those strangers to get in touch, whilst preventing those pesky spammers from peddling their wares. It offers 16 individual abuse countermeasures and is also customisable, so you can make it fit in with your site’s ‘look and feel’.

Get the Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form now.

5. WP-Print

Don’t you hate it when you try to print a web-page and the first page comes out blank, the second page only displays the navigation column, and then the main content comes out but is so wide that the last word on every line doesn’t fit on the sheet? You can guarantee your readers will hate it when it happens to them on your site.

The WP-Print plugin enables you to insert a link to a printer-friendly version for each of all your blog entries and pages, with all navigation and styling stripped down.

Get WP-Print now.

4. Google Sitemap Generator

More search engine goodness here. XML-Sitemaps were invented by Google in 2005 as an easy way for webmasters to inform Google of pages on their site that can be indexed. In November 2006, Yahoo! and Microsoft also decided to support the XML-Sitemap format, making it a pretty important standard.

The Google Sitemap Generator creates and keeps updated the all important XML file, and automatically pings Google and Yahoo! each time you add a new post.

Get Google Sitemap Generator now.

3. ImageManager

As mentioned in this previous post, image management in WordPress sucks. No two ways about it.

ImageManager provides an interface for browsing and uploading image files, and integrates simple image editing capabilities such as crop, rotate and re-size. So say goodbye to the native WordPress upload tool.

Get ImageManager now.

2. Category Tagging

Categories are soooo 2005, man. Today it’s all about the tag.

WordPress’ categories can actually be used like tags simply by applying multiple categories (or tags) to each post. The Category Tagging plugin allows you to easily slip a tag cloud into your blog. It also offers a cool little hook that displays related posts containing the same tags as the post being read.

This is an excellent way to enable your visitors to browse deeper into your site in a relevant and useful way to them.

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1. Sociable

Today in this world of Web 2.0, social networking is all the craze, and the way people search for and consume news and information increasingly revolves around social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and Digg. A completely democratic system for delivering news where popular and reputable articles receive more ‘votes’, and consequently move to the top of the news roster.

Like young rock stars dream to be on Top of the Pops, young bloggers dream to be on the homepage of Digg. For this to happen you need to enable your readers to quickly vote for your post with the minimum of effort on their part.

See those cute little icons at the bottom of this post? They are links to various social bookmarking sites and they are powered by my number one plugin for a WordPress newbie, Sociable. This plugin supports an amazing 61 individual sites and is an essential plugin for all WordPress users, new or not.

Get Sociable now.

Have you got a BUG . . . Like me? . . . CABIN FEVER?

Hey, are you like me the older I get the sooner CABIN FEVER starts to set in every YEAR! I have been battling a severe case of this Nasty Winter time BUG for the last 3 weeks! It has been clouding, misty, snowy and rainy most of the last 3 weeks and frankly I am ready to get out of here and go some place warm. Maybe someplace I have been before . . . . that I really loved . . . ST. Martin, Tortola, St. Kits, etc . . . NO! . . . I am thinking someplace much less touristy where the people DON”T all know your name. . . . Watch the VIDEO (BELOW) and see if you agree with me.

Overly Frustrated . . . a sign that I might have ADD AD/HD

I was talking to Paul (not the persons real name) today about his child’s recent struggles in school. Paul had just described to me classic ADD symptoms and he mentioned how frustrating it was to see his own offspring go through such difficult times with his teachers. Noting the emphasis on “FRUSTRATION” in Paul’s voice, I mentioned that I had noticed that it was my own reaction (feeling overly Frustrated) to my sons struggles that should have been a sign to me that I might have Adult ADD as well. Seeing our own shortcomings, struggles and frustrations in our kids is often too painful for us to admit (our over-reactions should tip us off). So, we live in denial or worse yet fail to see that we too are suffering from the same symptoms of ADD AD/HD we see in them . . . to be continued.