I have ADD and love having it. I am a card carrying member of the ADD Club, and proud of it. I have thrived and enjoyed life in ways others can only dream about, because I have ADD. Two of my four children (ages 18 and 30) also have ADD and their ADD has given them the ability to prosper and overcome obstacles that would frustrate others.

Robin Williams, Albert Einstein, Tom Cruise, Henry Winkler, John Lennon, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Mohammed Ali, Bruce Jenner, Robert Kennedy, Magic Johnson, Carl Lewis, Galileo, Mozart, and Werner von Braun all thrived because they have or had ADD.

Yet, too many people suffer because they have ADD. They feel ostracized. They feel all sorts of confusing and frustrating conflicts between themselves and others. They are told they have a DISORDER, that they need fixing, that they need to change and be like others, and that they need to overcome their DISORDER created faults (lack of focus, forgetting names and dates, impulsivity, boredom, to name a few). Doctors, teachers, bosses, parents and others concentrate on the negative aspects of ADD, as if that is all there is to it. Drugs are almost forced upon ADD people to make them normal. Yet drugs rarely, if ever, help in overcoming the negative things attributed to ADD.

So why do some people thrive because they have ADD and others suffer from ADD? The simple explanation is that the people who thrive go to great lengths to understand themselves and the special blessings their ADD gives them. They become the World’s Leading Expert on Themselves. They accept who they are, and enjoy being in their own skin. They use their special ADD blessings to reach levels and places that normal people can only imagine. They know what their ADD drawbacks are and adjust their surroundings and practices to either avoid their drawbacks or overcome them. They expand and enjoy their own ADD blessings to them to the fullest, and the rewards they receive for doing so are remarkable.

That’s right, if you have ADD, you are BLESSED. No if’s, and’s, or but’s about it.  Your ADD blessings come with the package. Most ADD people have more than one special blessing. But the ADD blessings are not all the same. The special blessings each ADD person has are very unique to that person. These blessings are normally very creative in nature, but not always.

So how can you convert your ADD from the DISORDER you have been suffering with into the BLESSING it really is? Find a way to learn everything about yourself. Become the World’s Leading Expert on You! Then you will know what your unique and special blessings are, and what your real, not imagined, self-imposed obstacles are. You will be able to reshape your life to expand and enjoy your special blessings to the fullest. You will also be able to adjust your behavior and your conditions to avoid and overcome your unique drawbacks that created so many problems for you in the past.

However, this can be a very difficult, confusing and long process, if you attempt it on your own. The fastest, most accurate and the most productive way to become The World’s Leading Expert on Yourself, to identify all of your special ADD Blessings is to engage the services of a life coach. Your life coach will concentrate only on you to provide you the nonjudgmental clear reflection of what makes you tick and who you are. Your life coach will become your personal mirror into assisting you to discover and unravel the mystery of you. Then you and your life coach will work as an equal partner team to use this newly discovered knowledge about you to create your new life that will allow and encourage you to be you.

Robin Williams reveals that he spent years trying to discover himself.  Once he understood his special ADD gifts, he was able to determine when and where he could enjoy being himself by unleashing his mind bending creative humor and be greatly rewarded for doing so.  Yet, he readily admits that he would most likely be arrested if he conducted his free spirited shenanigans on the street.

We at The Coach Connection have noticed that people with ADD who use our life coaches achieve exceptional results by converting their ADD from the burden of a DISORDER into the BLESSING it really is.  Once ADD clients start looking at themselves through the mirror of their life coach, they discover the remarkable talents, special blessings, and attributes they have always had, but had been hidden and suppressed for so long.  Their breakthroughs come fast, they come often, and they are frequently very important, even fun.  I have been told that approximately 5% of the general population in The US has ADD. Yet, we have estimated that over 15% to 20% of our clients have ADD and thrive through coaching because they have ADD. People with ADD have thrived through life coaching, because their life coach usually becomes the first person to assist them to unravel the mystery of who they really are, and their life coach genuinely encourages ADDer’s to accept their special uniqueness and to take the positive steps to get the most out of their ADD given BLESSINGS.