Menage a Moi

This article is a brief, light-hearted “About Me”
— for something that reads more like a vitae,
CLICK HERE for my Trainer Bio

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The ADD Poster Girl says
Hello World!

by Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC

I’m a fascinating woman.  Really.  I can jump inside my very own brain and fascinate mySELF for HOURS of eternal now (getting in the way of actual accomplishment, but hey, they don’t call me The ADD Poster Girl for no reason).

Mentalist and empath, visionary and myopic, the sanest person I’ve ever met with the craziest life: a self-aware, self-assured stuttering wonder of more-than-a-mess.

In the days when I was a New York actor/director, my agent once described me to a casting director as a woman who could probably run Bloomingdales all by herself.  

And I probably could — if only I could find my left shoe — and the keys that were right here in my hand a single step ago . . . and something to wear with the only pair of pants that aren’t in the hamper, since I can’t wear a skirt when I haven’t a solitary pair of stockings without a serious run.

If my mother had married for money instead of love I could have been more than a contender: I’d have a staff. I mean, one besides the gaggle inside my brain, intent on dressing me, feeding me, grooming me, scheduling me, reminding me and amusing me in simulcast.  

I think they drove the butler mad; no one seems to be in charge.

When the going gets tough, the tough do research!  

I now can say with authority that I know an awful lot about an awful lot of things: neurology, psychology, cognitive linguistics, memory consolidation dynamics through the lens of molecular biology, bioenergetics, psychopharmacology and psycho-bio-immunology . . .

. . . you know, all the usual areas of interest for the terminally distracted.  

But I’m beginning to come around to Thomas Leonard’s take on all that,
“Information is the booby prize.”

That’s why I train coaches.  Coaching lives in action. And isn’t it a lovely home for all that pesky information until I can get it together to finish a few of my books and ship them off to be published!

So, welcome to my brain-dump.  

I’m hoping that combining blogger’s hyperfocus with mini-deadlines will function as the cornerstone of a system designed to provide a showcase for a few of the out-takes begging to become the start of yet another brand new book!

Temptations to boogie on down distraction road begone!  

I simply must renew my acquaintance with one or two of my books: the many orphans who are losing patience with my never-ending promises to return.  I need to publish at least one of the little darlings, if only to prove to myself that I can.

I think I’ve finally found the motivational cookie that will hook me like a tractor beam, dragging me toward the docking station of completion: the vision of what I’m going to buy for myself out of my very first royalty check.  

More shoes!

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Props to Victoria Sullivan, playwright and poet extraordinaire, for the title.  Back in my NYC acting days, I was in one of her plays, a musical with the same title as this post.

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The Three “cookie” posts — 3 parts of Reward and Acknowledgment

• Virtue is NOT its own Reward
• Doling out the Cookies
• When the Game is Rigged

For More Background ABOUT ME:

• Madelyn’s (more serious) Trainer Bio
• A “coming soon” that describes the method to my madness – with some effectiveness stats!