BLOGOctober 02, 2017

Author With ADHD Has Tips to Help Everyone ‘Gain Time’ in Their Day

Wish you had extra time in your day? Maybe you should treat yourself like someone who battles ADHD.

Peter Shankman has used his struggle with what he calls “Ferrari brain” to his advantage. The entrepreneur and author uses simple tricks during his day to avoid getting distracted and stay focused on his goals. We’re all busy, but if you want to be more productive, you need to examine your day and figure out where you get off track.

Shankman has heard a lot of excuses, but if he can find time when his ADHD brain is dying to follow a hundred rabbit trails, then you can find time.

“’I don’t have any time’ is kind of a lie. You know, we all have the same 24 hours,” he said.

This article provided courtesy of TheBlaze.

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With history as my guide -- by the way, we're going to move along. We'll get back to some of the information on what happened in Las Vegas in a couple of minutes. The president is due to speak soon. Likely some of our affiliates will break away and carry some of that. We're going to monitor and see if there's anything other than standard jargon. You know, it's still nice to hear from a president. But usually it's pretty standard speak in the aftermath of a tragedy.

If it's worthy, we'll carry some of it in a little while, as some of our affiliates tune away and carry some of that and then tune back in. If you missed this next segment, you're going to want to go to go to i Tunes and listen to this program, the Glenn Beck Program. Because this is a guest you definitely want to hear from. He's one of my favorite guests that we've had on The Morning Blaze. With history as my guide, I feel comfortable in saying that we're going to cram about three interviews' worth of interviews into one.

Peter Shankman, author of Faster Than Normal: Turbo Charge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success With the Secrets of the ADHD Brain.

Hey, Peter, how are you?

PETER: Good to talk to you today. How are you?

DOC: Doing well, sir.

Loved having you on our morning program because we spent a lot of time talking about entrepreneurs and ways people can better their life. And we're all looking for some advantage to say, what can I do to make life better for my family? And I think you have solved some of the problems with your book.

PETER: Well, thank you, I appreciate that.

Yeah, the problems that I've solved and the book that I wrote basically came from me having to figure out how to survive, with a different brain, as it were.

I've had ADHD all my life. And when I was growing up, it wasn't ADHD. It didn't exist like that. It was sit down, you're disrupting the class disease.

DOC: You were a bad kid.

PETER: Oh, God. I was terrible. Yeah. And, you know, I wasn't intentionally terrible. But I was just -- my brain was always looking for those chemicals. That dopamine, that serotonin, that adrenaline that normal people make plenty of, and that people with ADHD are constantly hunting for. To get sort of that same level of productivity that regular people have. Once I realized how to do it, you know, my productivity shot through the roof. And now -- yeah, I've started and sold three companies. I've written five books. Yeah, I do things pretty fast.

DOC: Runner, sky diver, podcaster, Ironman, triathlete. You know, you've been added to my list of people I hate because you're too successful. It's not even successful. You should. You're in good company. It's not just successful. It's people that have --

KRIS: I should have done something.

DOC: Exactly. And multiple things, despite odds. I mean, it's incredible what you've accomplished.

PETER: Thanks. The book comes out tomorrow. Faster Than Normal. And I wrote it basically because I started this podcast about two years ago, interviewing other people with ADHD, you know, who are successful. Celebrities, CEOs. We've had Tony Robbins. Seth Godin. People like that.

And what we found out is that, yeah, there's this sort of -- there's two types of people with ADHD. There are the people who look at it like a curse, and those who understand that it actually can be a gift. But to get there, you sort of have to set up these life rules for yourself. That I've had to deal with, when I realized, what made me write the book was I realized that the life rules I've set up are pretty much anyone can use them. You don't have to have ADHD. Anybody can use them and gain like a few hours of productivity or a few hours of extra time as it were in their day.

I love when people say, oh, I don't have enough time to do that. I'm like, well, I'm pretty sure part of the planet you're on revolves around the sun and the same speed of the planet that I'm on. Right? So I don't have any time is kind of a lie. You know, we all have the same 24 hours.

DOC: So one of the reasons I like the book is not just because you've come up with a good idea here and something that will help people. But you did it because you found a way to not only work around a problem, but use that problem to your strange. And this is something I tell some of my coworkers here, tell my wife, you got to find a system that will work for you.

For example, I have a little bit of the ADHD. And I know that I can't stay focused all day long. So I don't set a rigid schedule for myself, Peter. I leave myself some playtime. So if something is normally going to take a half an hour, you know, I schedule 45 minutes for it. Because I know there's going to be a transition.

PETER: Exactly. For me, the same thing happens. I'm on my computer all day. I'm creating content. I'm writing. I'm recording the podcast. And I know that when I need to get work done, I have to be in a certain zone. I call it the zone of focus. And the best way for me to be in the zone of focus, like to write my books, I get on the airplane.

DOC: I think this is hilarious. This story is so funny.

PETER: Faster Than Normal was written on a round trip to Asia and back. And -- or, two round trips to Asia and back. My previous book was actually written -- I had six months to write it. With two weeks left, the publisher called. Like, how's the book going? I was, oh, it's going great. Yeah, almost done.

I hadn't written a thing. And I had hung up the phone. Went to the United Airlines website. Booked a round trip, business class flight to Tokyo for the next day. Got on the plane with my laptop, my backpack, and a jacket and my headphones. And I wrote chapters one through five on the flight to Tokyo. Landed, went through immigration, came back through immigration. Went back to the lounge. Got back on the same plane. Same seat. Two hours later, wrote chapters six through ten on the flight home. Landed 31 hours later. Smelled a little bit. I had a book.

KRIS: Wow.

PETER: People say, oh, my God, you're crazy. You spent $5,000 to go nowhere. I'm like, no, I spent $5,000 to write a book in 31 hours. Because that's how I do it.

DOC: By the way, last minute scheduling a flight. No luggage. Just know you're on a list too.

PETER: I'm sure on a list. I'm definitely on a list. No question about it. But -- and it's funny, when I got back, I went through immigration. The guy says, hey, where are you coming from? And I have the global entry card, right? I use the machine. And then they take your -- that little receipt, and they look at it. And the guy goes, how long were you in Asia? A couple days. Just a little bit of time. He looked at me straight like, okay.

DOC: Forty-five minutes.

PETER: But, yeah, it was funny. That's what I have to do.

And the thing about it is, once you understand what works for you, right? Just do that. And who cares what anybody else says.

DOC: Right. It's finding the system that works for you because we all have different triggers and benefits and negatives. We all have different things in our lives. We have different schedules. So just find the system that works for you.

PETER: Exactly. There are people who -- you know, I can't drink. Right? I quit drinking a couple years ago because when you have ADHD, you pretty much have two speeds. You have namaste, and I'll kill you.

And there's really no middle ground there. So it's like leftover pizza. I don't have one drink. Right? Leftover pizza is not real either. People who order pizza. They have two slices. They put the rest in the fridge for like the next day. It's called leftover pizza. I've never experienced it. If I order a pizza, I eat the pizza. And so you have to learn what triggers affect you, how to avoid them, you know, what works for you and what doesn't.

I have -- my favorite thing I tell people, I have two sides to my closet, and they're labeled. One side says office and travel, and that's T-shirt and jeans. And the other side says speaking or TV. And that's a buttoned-down shirt, a jacket, and jeans. And that's it. Right? My suits, my vests, my sweaters, they're in another closet in another room. Because if I had to look at those every day to try to figure out what to wear -- oh, my God, that sweater. I remember that sweater. Laura gave me that sweater. I wonder how she's doing. I should look her up. It's three hours later. I'm naked in the living room on Facebook, and I haven't left the house.

DOC: But you've contacted Laura or at least tried to.

PETER: Exactly. Good old Laura.

It's funny. I asked people on my Twitter account. I'm at Peter Shankman. I go, tell me what you do to save time and this and that. And, you know, the number one answer is, hands down, is eliminate choice. Right?

The less you can focus on stupid things to think about, the more your brain has the ability to think about good things. The less you have to focus on what I have to wear or, you know, clothing or something like that -- I sleep in my gym clothes. Then the decision -- when I wake up in the morning, I'm in my gym clothes. The lights are on. The decision to go to the gym has pretty much been made for me.

DOC: See, and that's -- I mean, look at -- was it Einstein -- I don't know if it's true or not. They always said he wore the same thing every day. So he eliminated choice.

PETER: Yeah, Zuckerberg in his hoodies. Obama has three suits. They eliminate choice because there are other things more important to think about.

DOC: Okay. So let's look at this way, you know what, Peter, I have to wear a variety. For whatever the reason, my job requires -- I have to wear something different. And I have to have at least 30 outfits. Well, then hang 30 of them and just take the next one, right?

PETER: Either do that, or what I found fascinating was you can mix or match. The jeans might be the same. But I have a nice collection of high-quality T-shirts. My blazers are very nice. And I just know that I can grab -- it's like a Chinese restaurant menu, right? One from Column A, one from Column B, and I'm done.

DOC: But you set up that system. So the same thing is, even if you have to wear more things, you just set it up and say grab from this, grab to that, right?

PETER: Exactly.

You get stuff that is otherwise, you know, frustrating you or that's otherwise confusing you. You get that out of the way, right?

I know I'm not going to wear that vest. There's a very nice vest that my ex-mother-in-law gave me. Right? I'm never going to wear that vest. I'm not going to throw that out. One day she comes over, I'll have to show her I have the vest. So I keep it in the other closet, I won't think about it.

DOC: It's really good.

The book is Faster Than Normal. You can also follow Peter Shankman on Twitter. It's @PeterShankman. Did I get that right?

PETER: You did. Yeah.

DOC: All right. So I'm going to tweet out a link to the book or whatever. Peter, love having you on. I think you got a great message, and hopefully we'll have you back in the near future on TheBlaze as well.

PETER: Anytime. Thanks so much.

DOC: Thanks, buddy. Appreciate you joining us. I'm going to get a quick break. We're still awaiting words from President Trump about the shooting in Las Vegas. We'll cut in, at least cover some of that, when we come back, on this, the Glenn Beck Program.

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Is Dearborn Height's new police patch idea TREASONOUS?!

The police department of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, posted and then quickly removed a prototype police patch featuring Arabic writing. Why would an American city, Glenn Beck warns, bow to a community that has declared over and over that it DOESN’T want to assimilate into the American way?

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GLENN: What Tim Kaine was talking about last week with our Declaration of Independence is so crucial. It's why I started the program with it. If we don't have this, we don't have anything. And you have to understand that our Founders came from a place where they hated government, but they needed some government. And they were trying to put together a system that made men free. This is a lens that we can't even relate to anymore. Because now governments and politicians all over the world, their idea of creating laws is how do they gain more power? How can they keep you in a box, more? It was the opposite of what our Founders believed. And our Founders believed, look, if everybody just understands that everybody has a right to say and do the things they do. And they understand civics. That with those rights come responsibilities. Then we're going to be fine.

But if they don't understand that, if they're not a moral society, that understands moral sentiments. If they don't -- if they're just out for greed. They're just out for themselves. Then the whole system breaks down.

And that's what we -- that's what we have. If I have time, I want to tell you some of the things that I noticed on vacation.

You know, I went by. I was in New York.

And I went by the -- what was it? The center for ethical society or something like that.

And it's -- it was in a building that had to have been built around the turn of the century. So it had to have been a progressive thing. And it had a school next to it. And everything else. And I thought, I wonder what the ethics are now, coming out of the ethical society.

I wonder what those ethics are. Because ethics. Ethics are just changing.

Everything is changing just under our feet.

Because we no longer respect the ethics and the constitutional norms that created this country.

And let me take you to Dearborn, Michigan.

So last week, we find out that an institution. The police department. An institution sworn to uphold the Constitution, has introduced a uniform patch, with Arabic script for the very first time. And it just says, in Arabic, police department. Dearborn police department. That's all it says.

And it's just to better connect with the population. Of Muslim population there in tier born, Michigan.

And it sounds harmless. You can make that into no big deal. Dearborn Police, what is your problem?

Well, it's not just a small gesture of outreach. It's a signal. And signals matter. For more than two centuries, America has been an experiment, and we used to describe it as a melting pot. You could come here from any land. Speak any language. Any faith. And we could come here. And if you believe in the laws and the Constitution of America, if you believed in that, and you upheld those things, we could melt together, and we could create something even greater than you could even imagine!

We didn't erase cultures. We elevate what unites us. Instead of elevating what divides us.

And we don't bend our civic institutions to mirror any kind of tribal or religious identities.

We don't create parallel systems of justice or identity. Now, I want you to think about history.

No immigrant group, none. Ever.

No religion ever had law enforcement tailor itself to them!

Never! Catholics came to this country, by the millions. What did they face? They were mocked.
They were ridiculed. They were accused of being agents was the pope. Churches were burned. Signs that read, no Irish allowed. Yet, the Catholic Church didn't demand a crucifix on the police badge.

They didn't demand government offices display papal seals. That would have been completely rejected by everybody.

What they did was they fought. They endured. And over generations, they proved that they could be both Catholic, fully Catholic, and fully American. And the same is true of the Mormons.

Look at what the Mormons have faced. They have faced the harshest prosecution or persecution of all in Missouri. Governor Lilburn Boggs signed an actual extermination order, ordering Mormons to be driven from the state or killed. It was legal for you to kill a Mormon, because they were Mormon!

That's the only it government order like it, in our history. They were beaten. They were tarred and feathered. Their homes were torched. Their leadership was murdered. They fled West outside of America proper to carve out a home in the wilderness and just be left alone in the mountains.

And what happened after they got there. The U.S. Army marched into Utah, convinced the Mormons were plotting a rebellion against the United States, but they weren't. In fact, they revered the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, more than their persecutors even did.

For years, the Mormon Church used to teach the founding documents, alongside the Scripture. It's what tethered that religion to, I believe, to sanity and not being pulled in every different direction. They've stopped teaching the founding documents. And I think it's a problem, myself.

But who am I to say? But Mormons are the most patriotic of any religion in America. Check it.

Why? They didn't bend America to their faith. They bound their faith to America. Now, compare that and the Catholics and everything else. Every other religious group that has ever come in. Now, compare that to what's happening in Dearborn, Michigan.

Week after week, and we have them on tape. Week after week, from the pulpits of the local mosque. The imams openly declare their goal not to join the American project. But to replace it.

Not to preserve the Constitution. But to subvert it.

They preach the supremacy of Sharia law, over American law.

And now, the police department, a symbol of our secular Constitution order, decides they want to appeal to that group? To wear that identity on its uniform?

That's not inclusion.

That's not assimilation. That's not the melting pot.

It's the opposite.

It's Balkanization, at its kindest. It is the state bending towards the demand of a religious political ideology, that seeks to replace our American civilization.

Let me be really super clear on this: This cannot stand.

Our history shows us the way. Every faith, every culture, every group that has come to America, has been tested, and put through the ringer.

Quite honestly, I don't like it!

But it has worked out for the best of all of us. Because we have been forced to prove, will we embrace the Constitution, or will we try to replace it?

Are we coming over here, and we're just going to live like Irishmen, and live by the Irish laws, or are we going to bend to the Constitution of our new country? Catholics embraced it. Jews embraced it. Mormons embraced it.

Baptists have embraced it.

Millions of immigrants from every corner on the globe have embraced it. And that's why we are who we are.

If Dearborn or any other American city sties that they're going to start carving out exception to see make government institutions bear the mark of the religion that seeks to dominate, rather than integrate, we are not just forgetting our history. We are part of the unmaking of America.

Because in the end, the melting pot isn't about a cheese fondue. It's not about food.

It's not about festivals. It's about allegiance.

Allegiance to one nation under God, not Sharia. Not under Rome. Not under Salt Lake City. Under the Constitution. That's what the flag represents.

And if we lose this, we lose America. Dearborn must not allow -- they're saying this is -- the mayor came out on Friday and said, well, this is only voluntary. You could have the patch or not. We're not going to make it. We're not going to make it required.

You should not make it available. You should not make it available!

I'm a collector of history. I have yet to see, you know, from the Pennsylvania Dutch region, the police badges that were in German!

I grew up in Seattle. In the Pacific northwest, where there's lots of Asians. I have yet to see the police badge that is in Chinese.

It doesn't happen! We don't do it. Some may say that this is the unmaking of America. That's where I'd like to fall.

But it's dangerously close. To treason.

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Alex Jones EXPOSES Bohemian Grove and Occult Gatherings of the Elites

What really happens inside Bohemian Grove? In this explosive conversation, Glenn Beck sits down with Alex Jones to discuss what he witnessed firsthand after sneaking into the elite gathering. From bizarre occult rituals to powerful world leaders hidden deep within the redwoods, Jones describes the shocking scenes and secret ceremonies that the mainstream media has ignored for decades. Why are the world’s most powerful men drawn to this mysterious camp? What are they doing behind closed doors — and why does it matter? This episode peels back the curtain on one of the most secretive gatherings in the world, revealing the disturbing truths about the rituals, the symbolism, and the hidden influence of Bohemian Grove.

WATCH Glenn Beck's FULL Interview with Alex Jones HERE

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Democrats think their INSANE Trump rants are GOLD

The Democrats need new material, and they know it! In just recent weeks, Democrats have compared the Trump administration to the Handmaid’s Tale, Nazi Germany, the Iranian theocratic regime, and, of course, a stooge of Russia. But meanwhile, the DNC has blacklisted woke terms. Glenn and Stu take a look at the insanity…

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GLENN: You know, the Democrats are just losing all kinds of credibility. And people are switching parties. Like they've never switched away from the Democratic Party before.

And here's why: Everybody's favorite Congresswoman Crockett on the DC crime crackdown.
Listen to this.

VOICE: ICE, for the most part, is nothing but a ride. That's all they were supposed to do for the most part, right? Is like, you know what, this person is undocumented, or this person reentered the country illegally. All the things, and then they have ICE holds. And then ICE gets them. So they can -- that's all ICE is supposed to do.

Look at them for a fancy Uber driver for immigrants. That's all they're supposed to do. And they're falling all over each other, injuring each other. Like, we are a joke.
(laughter)

STU: She's awesome.

GLENN: She's with Gavin Newsom. She's fabulous. Can we go to cut three? Here she is on the crime crackdown.

VOICE: Tell me what it's like in DC. Tell me what you think this is really all about.

VOICE: So it's very dystopian to see. It's funny because I used to watch the handmade's tale. And I can't, right?

I never finished. And I can't watch it, because it is too close to reality.

STU: Oh, yeah.

VOICE: And so what we're seeing is this militarization.

And obviously, it started in your state. That was kind of the testing grounds. Going to your state. Going to a black woman, mayor city.

First. And now, you're in yet another black woman-led city.

GLENN: Uh-huh. That's why he's doing it.

VOICE: And taking over. To me, it's going again to the level of racism and hate. That is constantly seen --

STU: Shocking she went there. Wow. What a stunning twist.

That's like M. Night Shyamalan. I would never expect her to go to a racial claim.

GLENN: I know. I know.

Now, let's go to Pritzker, the governor from Illinois.

And what he has to say, about what's going on.

STU: Must we?

VOICE: I built a Holocaust museum, and one thing about that experience that I can tell you when I got the Holocaust survivors for more than a decade to build this museum.

One thing I learned in the process of that, is that it doesn't take very long to tear apart a constitutional republic.

And the Nazis did it in 53 days.

GLENN: No.

VOICE: And our democracy is almost fragile.

GLENN: Started in 1922.

GLENN: And we're seeing it right now. Yes. Who has been tearing it apart, you fat? Anyway. So now we're pre-Nazi Germany, according to him.

Uber drivers. ICE. It's the Handmade's Tale in -- in Washington, DC. It's pre-Nazi Germany in Illinois. And here comes Stacey Abrams to help us with more.

Cut six.

VOICE: I want to tie this back to the abundance agenda. And how you think about blue state power.

If it is true, that he's a grand ayatollah. That mystical power extends. And can be, you know -- he can anoint his -- you know, his profits.

And he can remain this --

GLENN: Okay. Stop. Stop.

STU: It's so good.

GLENN: So we are now -- he is now the ayatollah.

He's Hitler.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: In the handmade's tale. Who is also the mystical ayatollah, who is appointing new prophets.

STU: We have said, it's a lot of energy, Glenn. It's a lot of different roles to pull off.

GLENN: He does. He is covering a lot.

Now, he has also tried to make peace. But Susan Rice, with all of her deep, deep credibility, has something to say about that.

VOICE: It's pathetic. It's been clearly and repeatedly established. Including bit bipartisan Senate intelligence community. Led by Marco Rubio. Did Russia interfere in the 2016 election by disinformation campaigns. By social media efforts. By all sorts of means, short of manipulating the actual vote.

GLENN: She's still pushing it.

VOICE: And that's just a fact now. Obviously, Donald Trump does not like that fact. He does not like the fact that the intelligence community. And the Senate bipartisan intelligence community assessed that this interference was intended to --

GLENN: Stop. Stop. Stop.

STU: Unreal. I can't --

GLENN: How is this still happening?

With no pushback, from what was it? ABC or NBC.

No pushback from NBC. None. Zero.

All of the documentation has come out nap shows she was part of the conspiracy.

She was part of it. She was a ringleader in this. It's now showing all the documents. The facts. There are -- there's this -- this little fantasy, that the Deep State has been pushing.

And then there are the actual documents, written to and by people like Susan Rice, showing, this was all made up!

Wow! So wow.

And that -- and that strange Hitler mystical ayatollah.

STU: And handmade's tale.

GLENN: And handmade's tale. Guy who wants everybody dressed in red robes. Cannot get that stopped. That is so very weird. So weird.

STU: Glenn, you've worked with charities for a long time. You've founded your own. Almost incredible work around the globe.

Would you consider potentially putting together a fundraiser for the Democrats to come up with another literary reference, than the handmade's tale?

Is it possible, we give them a different book, just so they can say that title of it?

Now, I know Jasmine Crockett is, of course, so stupid, she couldn't even act like she read the book.

She only said she was watching the Hulu show. But still, can we get them some reference other than the handmade's tale.

GLENN: Well, they're already doing it. They're already doing it.

When you talk about literary stuff, they're already doing it. Here we go, you ready?

They have now. The DNC has now blacklisted terms that they don't want any of their people using. Okay?

STU: Oh, okay.

GLENN: Now, tell me what these terms have in common.

Blacklisted terms. Privilege. Violence. As in, environmental violence.

Dialoguing.

Triggering. Othering. Microaggression. Holding space. Body shaming. Subverting norms. Systems of oppression. Cultural appropriation. The Overton window. Existential threat to the climate.
Existential threat to democracy. Existential threat to the economy. Radical transparency. Stakeholders. The unhoused. Food insecurity. Housing insecurity. People who immigrated. Birthing person. Cysgender. Dead naming. Heteronormative. Patriarchy. LGBTQIA+. BIPOC, allyship, incarcerated people, and involuntary confinement. Those are the words that the Democrats are now telling their people, don't use any of these words. Those are the words that he forced everybody to use!
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So they are reading from a new book. They're just burning their own book.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: It is absolutely incredible, what is happening right now! Just absolutely nuts.

STU: I don't see how they're going to get through conversations without those words.

Those are the only words they say.

GLENN: I know. I know.

I could just add -- I could just add some conjunctions in there. And I could make that into a speech.

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Is Dearborn Height's new police patch idea TREASONOUS?!

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Alex Jones EXPOSES Bohemian Grove and Occult Gatherings of the Elites

Democrats think their INSANE Trump rants are GOLD

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