Re: I just don't know

[Anonymous]

Hi ColdFire5!

I think I can say that almost all ADD people have difficulty with starting tasks or projects. Even though we know how important some of the tasks are we manage to spend inordinate amounts of time justifying why we can’t get started on them. For myself, I finally just had to tell myself to “Shut up!”(that’s in reference to my excuse-making/justifying why I just can’t get started dialogue). Then I tell myself to “Just DO IT!!!” Yeah, sometimes I have to be pretty brutal with myself. Oddly enough, whenever I try this strategy and go ahead and ‘just do it’, I find that I get it done and the task wasn’t nearly as onorous as I thought it would be.

We can be our own worse enemies. We have a hard time initiating tasks because that’s one of our traits. We’re procrastinators because getting started is tough for us. Giving myself the ‘earful’ has become enough for me to get going because I can well remember how terrible I felt when I didn’t get going on a job when I needed to do so. The truth is that the first step in getting started is probably difficult for everyone but the non-ADDer just doens’t complain as much as we do. (Well, I at least think we’re whiners- you know, the cup half-empty versus the cup half-full.) 🙄

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