![]() ![]() Unlike these authors, Cilley recognizes that sometimes your family won't help, most people can't afford professionals to take care of things, and in the end you have to find tactics that will allow you to do what you need to do anyway. I was initially put off by that book's cheesiness, but I'm now inclined to bump it up a star. I recently gave a so-so review to Marla Cilley's Sink Reflections. And for a fair number of people, a library book is as close as we will ever come to a professional organizer. As for my circle of friends, we're friends because we are all eccentric in our own ways and none of us have the capacity to write a budget or schedule for each other. Not all of us have supportive family and, as other sources on this topic have pointed out, toxic help (the kind of help that comes with nagging and ridicule) is worse than no help at all. ![]() Over and over again, the authors say, "You will not be able to do this, so ask your counselor/professional organizer/time tutor to do this for you." I want to believe they didn't intend it this way, but the message is repeatedly hammered home, "If you aren't upper middle class, you are doomed to fail at life." The book continues with the assumption that you have an abundance of helpful friends and family who will cheerfully take on the roles of "Time Tutor" and such as well. They also seem to operate under the misapprehension that everyone can afford professional organizers and counselors. They are not only of the opinion that such services are the best way for someone with ADD to succeed (and they're probably right there), but that such services are the only way someone with ADD can succeed. The two authors are a counselor and professional organizer. However, I am very glad this was not the first book I read on the topic or I think I would be in a state of despair now. The authors clearly understand their subject matter. This book has some good ideas and helpful suggestions. ![]()
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