http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp Seize Brilliance Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:56:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had the opportunity this past weekend to attend the CADDAC conference in Toronto.  To my knowledge, it was the first-ever 2-day ADHD event of its type in Canada, and it was excellent.   It's a tricky thing to find a balance of speakers and workshops that can engage and enlighten ... http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp/?p=44 You can't turn around these days without another journalist or blogger fulminating about the great blessing (or scourge, if that's your persuasion) that is Twitter. It's now transcended the blogosphere, and virally infected the hidebound world of newspaper journalism: The Globe and Mail, the grand old ... http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp/?p=25 I want very much to be posting more on this blog, but I'm not a very good raccoon. Some of the biggest and meanest raccoons in the world live in my garage. To be more accurate, they don't actually live in the garage. They live in the walls ... http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp/?p=24 "A chair is a very difficult thing," concluded Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the great modernist designer and architect. It needs to be strong enough to support a person's weight, and it must allow the sitter to assume a comfortable position for his or her chosen task - reading, ... http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp/?p=28 16. Do you like bicycles, even if you don't ride them any more? -from Edward Hallowell's ADD Self-Assessment quiz, in Delivered From Distraction I love bicycles. Ever since pretending to be Evel Knievel jumping Snake River Canyon, (riding a bike wholly unsuited for the job, with an ending that was, while ... http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp/?p=32 A study published in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology March 10 found letting kids with ADHD move around may be helping them to focus on their work. As it turns, in a group of boys aged 8-12 with ADHD, they were more successful on tasks requiring working memory when they ... http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp/?p=30 "Dad, I'm going to remember today as one of my best days," said my son William cheerfully, as he prepared to head off to bed. I was pleasantly surprised to hear him say anything like this. Though he's in Grade 3, closing in on his ninth birthday in a few ... http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp/?p=22 In my last post I wrote about the value of reframing as a technique for redirecting pessimistic and harmful perspectives on difficult situations by striving to view every situation - even those that might be seen as failures - as opportunities to learn and improve. Of course, ... http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp/?p=18 My fragile, aging body reminded me yesterday of the importance of reframing difficult situations as worthy challenges. I'm signed up to race the 20 km Fischer Loppet at Hardwood Ski and Bike tomorrow, and despite my limited training this season, I've been feeling pretty good about it. I ... http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp/?p=16 I want to love Mondays. I mean it, I do. I want very, very much to be one of those people who launches forth into the week with a spring in his step and a well-flossed smile. The detritus and chaos of the weekend (in my family, ... http://www.rubiconcoaching.ca/wp/?p=9