Cash Free Monday Failure

This week has been a failure so far when it has come to going Cash Free for a day. I know that many people will look at this entry, and say " what it wrong with this person ", how hard is it to go without spending money for a day. The truth is that is should not be that hard to go without spending money for one day. The problem is with some of my poor spending habits. This week I was not feeling well and have managed to slip back into some old fast food and snacking habits. Since one of the goals of going cash free for a day was to change old habits, I have added another goal to shoot for next week, and that is to bring in my lunch to work for 4 days next week.

Many people develop habits because they are trying to compensate for a weakness or an emotional issue. Adults with ADD are more likely to develop habits (both positive and negative) because they generally have a higher level of anxiety, and they develop the habits in order to deal with stress in their lives. ADD adults could have also developed habits in order to compensate for caused by ADD.

Gerard Montigny has an excellent article titled "ADHD & NLP: Understanding and Changing Habits"  that adults with ADD should read if they want to start changing their habits. Douglas Cootey also has a very timely article "Can You Stop Disability As Easily As You Stop Biting Your Nails? " that has tips to help an AD/HD adult control undesirable behavior.