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PANCAKE!!…

and 12345

12345 pancake goes boom

have you seen a pancake pc it happens hin you run it over with a truck or a car or maybe a sinder block:)

great video chris pancake

why is everyone saying “PANCAKE”? :) yet another great vid Chris. Keep em coming!

PANCAKE!

..damn pancakes..i think i might have ocd..

GTD?

Owner of a Lonely pancake.

!EKACNAP

PANCAKE

I see in vista on microsoft’s “gadget gallery” someone has made an electronic version of post-it-notes.

I like pancakes!

pancake are good lol

Pancakes are good yes? :D

and why do you people give me thumbs down?!?
i was wondering cause someone who lives in america isn going to post a video at 8pm nz time!!

Whenever I have to get something done, I always use electronic sticky-notes on my desktop. They’re small, green, and reusable!

By the way……… pancakes.

Think you’re right Chris, mild OCD does help with organizing stuff! :0)

Mind you, I did forget the batter for Pankakes on Pancake day, so it doesn’t always help…

Cheers
Web_wiz from the chatroom

In addition to using your INBOX as a natural To-Do list, my calendar is an essential part of my personal life sustainment systems.

EVERYTHING I do goes onto my calendar. Period. No exceptions. In fact, if it’s not on my calendar, I don’t do it. So, when I know something needs to be done, I immediately make room for it on my calendar (often times moving other lower-priority things around a bit), estimate how much time I will need, and jot any notes required to job my memory right in the appointment. This technique also ensures that I have adequate time to finish things before others book-up my days with their meetings.

If I have a presentation to do on Friday at 9:00am, I make sure to place 2 blocks of time (say, Tue at 11am-Noon and Thu at 3pm-4pm) to actually prepare my notes, build a PowerPoint, conduct my research or whatever is necessary for me to be ready for that Friday morning meeting.

One more thing about meetings: I don’t attend any meetings that have no agenda. Their a waste of time. (Of course, this “rule” doesn’t necessarily apply to meetings with my bosses). So I use my calendar to make sure that I have an agenda ready for every meeting that I call. A quick 30 minutes the day prior to think about what I want to accomplish in the meeting and what the outcomes will be is all it takes (that, and filling-out a template for an agenda in Word). This sets the right example for my staff and peers, and you wouldn’t believe how many positive comments I get for having a prepared agenda. (Like, wouldn’t you EXPECT people to have THOUGHT about what they want to accomplish in the meeting and WRITE IT DOWN to make sure they DO IT in the meeting?)…

Of course, my calendar is sync’d everywhere – Work PC, Home Macs, iPhone. Since the iPhone is flaky syncing with Entourage and iCal to Exchange Server, I’ve taken to printing my week every Friday before leaving the office for a hard-copy record. Too extreme? Maybe. But if I lost my calendar appointments I think physical paralysis would be the natural result! (I don’t want to find out).

On the Mac, there is a simple free app called Think (http://www.freeverse.com/think/) that blacks out every other window than the live one you’re working in.

This is a great thing for an ADHD guy like me.

It removes distractions. It “unclutters”.

The other big issues I have yet to sort out are diet, sleep and fitness, all of which are critical to people with any kinds of mental health challenges.

Lastly, it’s all about taking a strengths-based approach. OCD/ADHD/whatever… if you can engineer your life right, these can reflect your greatest strengths, even if they can also reflect your greatest weaknesses.

I like to think of it like a coin. The most impressive, eccentric, fabulously interesting people often have a pretty unfortunate, crazy, debilitating flipside to their “coin”.

So focus on your strengths, but be wise to compensate for your weaknesses with other people’s strengths. We’re humans, after all, and created for community, for dovetailing with other’s strengths.

-Alister

Alister Cameron // Blogologist
http://www.alistercameron.com

lol, Love watching chris flip out over things that are weird, like pancakes..

Dear Mr Pirillo,
I found this video very interesting i and wanted to say that i also found it very helpful. I also suffer from another disorder very similar known as Tourette syndrome.

PS Pancake.

i had a pancake for breakfast today…

Hey Chris,
Being a “victim” of both of these disorders such as yourself, I understand completely how these can affect your life. I have learned to deal with it more as time ticked on, but it is still increasingly hard to not look off into space or realize that my monitor is a millimeter off to the left. OCD tends to affect my life more, but ADD is definitely still there. Since I am a geek, power user, and programmer, OCD also affects my life on the computer ( 1 2 3 4 5!). For example, I’m on my Macbook right now(I code for both Windows and Mac, but I was never a switcher, just had always used both) and if the number of items on my Dock is not even, I go crazy. If the volume bars on the volume control is not an odd number, I go insane. In Windows, it’s even worse. The transparency in Vista drives me mad! If I see the desktop and another window through the top of one, I start twitching. Anyway, thanks for this video.

Sincerely,
Max

I, personally, not only have ADD/ADHD, I also have OCD, ODD, EI, Severe Depression, and High anxiety, so I have a LOT to deal with all at once, plus the family line of Bi-polar, that I’m waiting to hit me in my late 20’s, and I’m already turning 23 this year… doesn’t that sound like fun and something to look forward to? (major sarcasm)

For those that don’t know, ODD is oppositional defiant disorder, basically I do things to purposely irritate people, I defy logic with my own common sense, and I apparently am very good at arguments, the odd part about ODD, is that by definition it’s optional, which is defiant in itself, cause.. when have you ever heard of any disorder being optional? Plus, I don’t like arguing so it’s not that I chose to have this. Another thing many people don’t know about is EI, Emotional Impairment, this basically means that I have emotions like everyone else, but in some ways I feel them a lot more strongly, or in some cases, I don’t know how to control the intensity of how I express my emotions, for example, if I found something funny, people without EI would just laugh slightly and continue their day, people with EI (mostly depending on their sense of humor though) may not laugh at all, may laugh histarically, even to the point of not being able to breathe and so on, if something worrying us, a normal person would just feel worried, a person with EI can “over exaggerate” but not on purpose, it’s just how they feel.

Now a lot of people confuse (ADD+EI=Bi-polar) this is not true, Bi-polar is completely different, ADD may make you lose concentration in something, and EI can overly express your emotions, but Bi-polar, has absolutely NOOOOO control over their emotions, not even what they may feel next. EI has some control on what they feel, just now how they express it.

I deal with all my disorders, (try to at least) one at a time, if I have something that desparately needs to be done, well, mostly I’m nagged at till I do it, but if it’s something that I want to do, I do it right then and there, and that way I don’t have to be constantly reminded, if there are things that need to be repeatly done, like chores? I set a day out of the week to do nothing but those, this clears up the rest of my week, to do other things, and keeps people like my mother from nagging at me all the time. Some things I can easily make a schedule for a one month schedule that I can just easily print out per month, not mentioning any days or anything like that just a sunday through saturday schedule.

This way, I have all the repeated stuff on the same days every month, and anything else i can fill in with a pen or pencil, I even save all my records in a notebook due to my short term memory lost, and a past complication that involved my ex, being a hacker, and the police, and lost of 4 days cause my ex hit me to the head.. I really started keeping notes on what I did everyday, cause that was a nesseccity to find out what was going on those four days and court issues and yeah it was hecktic… But because I also keep a daily journal, incase something like that happens again, or if some other random reason I wake up from a coma, or whatever, I have records showing what I did, and what happened, and even in some cases what I thought, last thing I need is some random stranger telling me they are my BF… I know, this sounds paranoid, but it also keeps track of how sick I get, from what things I tend to end up possibly being allergic to, how often I pay bills, on average what I spend each month so I know what to save for the next month, it helps with organizing a lot, and prevents future questions.

So, I have one “calendar/schedule” that I write in every month and follow, and I have a daily journal that I write in to keep track of everything i have done, accomplished, future goals I’ve made, and yes, even things I’ve failed. (god news is, I seem to be achieving more than I fail at things, so this keeps me in check) The one thing an ODD person hates, is being proven wrong… and being OCD as well, it’s very hard to prove me wrong when I write everything in such detail. I also keep a “back-up” journal on the net, so that incase a: my journal ends up missing, I can write in it later, but with the hand journal b: if the net goes out, or I forget my passwords, my hand journal will be my back-up, so the are a benefit both ways.

I also say depending on if you’re having problems with money and what not, only save all your bank records, and bill/receipts for up to 2 years. any Job information I keep in a separate file on it’s own and let that collect up as long as I think it’s needed. this may even be more than two years, you never know when you need to prove your employment for something, or taxes, or even if there’s some random court case, and they have info on you, but yours may say something else. and also invest in a good shredder, or, learn paper-mache, I think doing that would garrentee any info you don’t ever want to be found in your garbage, will no longer even be readable at this point, if you wait the two year time, more often than not, the info that is found anyway is completely out of date and useless by now. Okay, well, my ADD went off on a tangent here and went more into how to be paranoid, than how to be organized, sorry… well that’s all the tips I have.

by the way, i forgotten to say, (as I went to leave the room, grab one cookie and realized…. rushed back in here) PANCAKE!!!!!…. DARN YOU ADHD AND ALL YOUR ADDNESS!

does chris smoke reefer? he looks torn

Nice :) Pancakes. Now I have a sudden craving for Pancakes,

I might have a bit of syrup and then I might one of those …. yum…. donuts…. golden… OMG! ADD!

Well, back to my inbox.

Chris, you record our videos so late. Anyway, I was just watching, procrastinating my homework again and feel quite hungary. Perhaps some pancakes? Anyway, I’m going to enjoy a few flap-jacks, keep producing these great videos.

I am definitely add because i will sometime just be like PANCAKE! so i really think that this video has helped me with getting things done. By the way Chris you say you have slight ADDness but i really think you have unslightly ADDness. Especially when you just start dancing randomly?

This video actually made me clean up my inbox… good vid!

Pancake

Chris guess what!! I was watching your video and my mom told me to come get pancakes. I was really happyy!!

Speak up! Who marked all of these down?

Nice video. I got to get more organised but before that I’m getting myself a nice big, fat pancake.

I have ADD and OCD too. =]
It can be pretty hard sometimes, but I take medicine for my ADD, and I’m not sure how I handle my OCD so well.

i feel that marijuana really helps me out with ADD and OCD. fuk anti depressants!!!! maryjane FTW!

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