This came to mind, after my BF and I had to have a talk yesterday. (About relationship stuff, my ADD's been acting up, and stuff going on w/ him) Anyway, this comes up at work as well as in my personal life, but having structured or planned meetings/discussions are horrible for me. I'm usually a train wreck, LoL. Like last night, I just wrote down all the thoughts I had about what I wanted to bring up....trying to write fast enough to get them all! Then while talking to him, I had to take notes...I kept freezing up because I kept losing my train of thought, even w/ the notes. But I am thinking because it was such a difficult talk that I wasn't wanting to have, I struggled even more with it.
He's really understanding, but I know a lot of people think I'm weird because I have to do that... My boss always thinks I'm not listening, but if I'm taking notes, that's probably the only time I am! LoL I am also stuck in a job where what I am doing is slowly moving away from what I liked doing, and it is becoming very difficult since I'm doing the things that are the most difficult for me (meetings, reporting, setting up reporting...very simple-minded work, many time intensive projects...but still not challenging at all).
So I am curious what others do...
What things do you guys do to help out in meeting or speech type situations?
And what are some ways you deal with doing things you just don't want to do?