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I guess we have to remember to not to expect the “Limitless” effect”
You know, the movie where the guy takes the pill and all of a sudden he’s an uber-over-acheiver?
The meds allow us to re-shift our thought processes and patterns and improve our attentiveness but they won’t provide new skills. Our organizational methods are not going to improve without a plan, new skill etc. I know if I don’t have a plan for the day I won’t do anything productive and not even think about starting something that should have been done ages ago Even dumber is that on the week-ends if I don’t have something productive planned I still feel bad and have to keep telling myself that every damn second doesn’t have to scripted. I still don’t believe that inner voice but I’m working on it!
I can see how you would feel that way if you started meds on vacation! I suppose someone with a “normal” mindset would be pretty undirected too only that’s why they went on vacation on the first place LOL. Seems to me very ADD to obsess over nothing – or shall I say doing nothing?
Do you mean that you are achieving to work the 8 hour shift or are you coming up to the goal date you set for it? If you are managing to work the hours that’s awesome! Could it be that at work you have to be more directed so it is easier to measure, whereas in your home life the presumably greater freedom is just perfect to help the procrastination?
My psychologist suggested working from home was not in my best interest because of the freedom but frankly I’m not keen on giving it up though!
Today – Day 7 – things went quite well and I got done what I set out to. I believe I was more methodical and therefor efficient. It seems the meds wear off so gradually I’m not sure when they actually do wear off. By the time my meeting rolled around I was about 10-11 hours into the day. But come to think about it, I felt more at ease than normal so I guess they were still working
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