Posts Tagged ‘follow-through’

Do I Really Have to Finish This?

How many multiple projects do you have going at one time?  Five, twelve, maybe twenty?  It’s amazing how easy it is to get overtaken by the excitement of a new project, the adrenaline rush of something fresh and provacative.  Yet, for folks with ADHD, with many projects, the excitement doesn’t last long enough to take you to the finish line.  Surrounded by stacks of paper, taunted by those lovely color coded files that you step over every time you walk into your office, it may feel that your projects become like the ghost of Christmas past haunting you throughout the day.  You may have found yourself asking “Do I really have to finish this?” to more than one of your little incompleted ghouls.  Here’s the good new!  NO, you don’t have to finish them all!  Read the rest of this entry »

 

Is it Procrastination or Something Else?

It’s 3 o’clock, the layouts for your marketing campaign are on the counter in pretty much the same state they were at 8 this morning.  How can that be?  It was the number one priority for your day and with 45 minutes till deadline the copy seems to be taunting your lack of progress.  You’ve been working at warp speed all day, so what happened?  Sound familiar?

With ADHD it’s often the case that best intentions are definitely paving the road to hell.  You know you’re not lazy; you know you’ve got great ideas and a kick ass concept, so what went wrong? Read the rest of this entry »