Gather whatever tools will help you keep track of tasks, goals, deadlines ie MotivAider (habitchange.com), which can be set to vibrate at certain intervals

Research has found that adults with adhd struggle to retain job stability

Identify the disability specialist in the human resources department at your company. This is the person you will provide with documentation of your ADHD and the person who will explain the available workplace accommodations. This person may also work with your supervisor

Find out if there is a company library or online information center that contains resources for further learning on the job

Survey the material Now use the 4Rs: read just one paragraph, recite out loud in a soft voice or whisper what was important in the material, write that material down in your notebook, then review what you just wrote.

walk around the block or the halls, or come up with an excuse to go down to the convenience store in the lobby or around the corner. The activity will improve your focus during the meeting.

Try some cooperative coworker tutoring when you need to learn something substantial on the job: new software, new regulatory codes, new technology. Take turns teaching each other something you or your coworker doesn’t understand.

Find a coworker who will have your back — and do the same for that person. If either of you forgets materials, information, or anything else you need while away from the office, the other will be there to supply it.

Schedule supervisor review meetings more often than at annual or semiannual salary review meetings. Every three to six weeks is a good interval. Meet with a person other than your direct supervisor to get a different perspective on your performance.

Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor and your picture begins to lighten up.

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.

I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.

If you look at 'Doctor Who,' it's a Time Lord in a blue box who travels around the universe. It's a silly concept, but it's one of the most brilliant, emotional experiences because it's sort of about what is humanity.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

Mathematicians are like managers they want improvement without change.

My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away!

Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.

Its sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Tomorrow is not given to anyone. What is given is the now enjoy each minuet as if it were to be the last.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.