LACK OF COMPLETION= LACK OF LIFE??? | ADHD Information

(not that i take my own advice) but follow your heart.   just do it - you are not cut out for an office job so don't try to be a round peg in a square hole.  take your talent and let it flow, give it the opportunity.  that's all.  start to perform.  good luck.I, too, have many talents...writing, acting, singing, drawing, directing, and I am a hairstylist. I have a simple rule: no more than 2 things at a time. Period. And ya know what? If there is something I don't finish that won't adversely affect others, I simply let it go until I'm ready to pick it up again. Life is too short to waste precious energy and time worrying about whether or not I have lived up to my full potential as I see it. Hell, no one, ADD or not, does. (Do ya hear my Adderall talking? It's very wise) Topic: LACK OF COMPLETION= LACK OF LIFE???

Nope.
Means lack
of a good team.
We are starters, not
finishers. Let someone
else wrap the gift.

I felt that way all the time.  I have lots of books in my head that I always am going to write.  I can tell my kids a story in a couple of hours.  I even started recording all the stories that I told, but I never have played them back to do the hard work of writing them, sending them in to editor after editor for the inevitable rejections that writers endure before - poof! I am a famous writer 

But since I've been crawling, I no longer am in a fog.  I feel more in control of my life than ever before.  You guys should really try it.  It is only .58 or something like that on Amazon.  It is making an amazing difference in my life.

The book is Stopping ADHD by O'Dell and Cook.  Definitely worth the money. 

Of course, you can go to their clinic and spend more money, but you don't have to.  All the exercises and the explanation as to why it works are in the book.

If your ADD or ADHD is caused by this reflex that they claim to be able to cure, I believe that it can relieve you of the fog.

I don't need Adderal anymore - and I used to be afraid to go to work without it!!!

 

The inability to complete tasks is one of the WORSE symptoms of our "dreaded gift"...To what degree do any of you feel this inabilty has hindered you or held you back in life? Any coping strategies? Has it wrecked your self esteem?

For me, the worst thing about doing my OFFICE SPACE routine daily is knowing, KNOWING, that I have the ability to do more...I am a tremendously talented artist, writer, poet, lyricist, & comedian....yet the ADD FIGHTS ME...When I struggle to break the chains of mediocrity, the "brain fog" starts to get thicker...the motivation sputters like an old jalopy on it's last legs & then poof! Sometimes I feel like a turtle trapped on it's back, legs paddling, going nowhere...

THIS IS INSANITY...MADNESS...

Talk to me, people...

Well it just feels like my job or my "tasks" are this big heavy rock sitting on me and I'm struggling and squirming but it never moves and never ends.  All I can think of is freedom, but freedom to do what I don't know.  I just feel squished and smothered by my responsibilities, and I feel really guilty about feeling that way.