In my experience as a professional organizer, creative types – also often labeled as disabled – have a hard time creating systems and boxes to organize stuff into.īUT, if the boxes are explained to them and customized to their way of thinking, they LOVE the boxes! So now that we have established that your creative chaos is amazing, let me help you see inside of the box for just a minute. I think you're reading this post because you WANT to be more organized. Here are 5 tips to help you stay organized. Unfortunately, this world operates on time clocks, schedules, and routines.
I am in awe of your ability to see outside of the box. List makers like me blend into the tapestry. Source Can you imagine the world without electricity, our Constitution, the telephone, or Disney World? Me neither. Kennedy, Benjamin Franklin, Walt Disney, Alexander Graham Bell and more had disabilities. George Washington, Thomas Edison, Thomas Jefferson, John F. It seems like having a disability is almost a prerequisite to the Presidency of the United States. Because Dave was always making money from one job or another, his family called him the "25-cent millionaire."Īt age 21, Dave finally graduated from high school. He ran the projectors at the local movie house, too. As a youngster he worked in a grocery store, shoveled snow, delivered newspapers, mowed grass and hauled trash. His family was economically disadvantaged, he stuttered so badly people had difficulty understanding him, and he had epilepsy in a time when the condition was not widely understood.ĭave's liabilities did not stand in the way of his ambition, however. Early in life, Dave had three strikes against him. Last night, I just read the biography of Dave Longaberger, who started the Longaberger Direct Sales Company. Some say he may have had Asperger’s Syndrome. life changing discoveries are often made by people who society would define as having DIS-abilities.Īccording to NSCC Disability Services, Albert Einstein didn’t learn to talk until he was four, couldn’t learn to tie his own shoes, and was way behind his classmates in learning to read. What is the difference between a DIS-ability and an ABILITY? I think it depends on your point of view and the task to be completed. I’d like to address the definition of a disability first.
Now, there are a lot of different disabilities. Let’s talk about ADHD and “disabilities.” DIS-ability definitions Women feel like they are broken if they can’t do this organization thing on their own.
TOO often when women call me asking me to help them get organized, they end up whispering to me… um, well… “I have ADHD,” or “I’m depressed,” or “I can’t stay focused.”
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