NATURE CALLS
Sunday, October 16, 2022 ~ column #7152
Focus and organization have been on my mind a lot lately – and lots of activity has begun to produce results. In the past, ‘finding my way to better organized’ was a survival necessity I thought was ‘normal,’ or at least normal for me to distill turbulence and chaos in my head without leaving too much undone, leaving opportunities behind me and not sticking to my task.
Yes, my impatient nature calls me out.
I’m finding now, thanks to the glorious meds; I’m able to sit without fidgeting or restlessness long enough, pay attention well enough and listen sufficiently to achieve more, better and quicker for clients I serve – and realize I’m my own client too, needing organizational effectiveness too – or, as the marketing term goes, self-care!
Where I’m going with this is understanding the tendencies my ADHD brain has to wander in curiosity and divert attention/direction to the next exciting squirrel that runs by …. well, not really, but I’ll describe it that way to illustrate my point, which is, the meds help the focus enormously, and the minimizing of multiple distractions too – but they aren’t a whole solution.
My early months of euphoria have been great – that thrill and enlightenment have not diminished.
I’m thrilled to be running my life and professional practice better than ever, but knowing yourself better doesn’t solve any particular problem. What it is doing for me is more rationally tackling issues head-on and more promptly, with a proactive and more pragmatic approach (seems that way so far) to find compromises that work rather than avoiding or delaying attention to a problem or fighting to be perfect when timing presses an issue.
That coupled with a shifting focus in work – not so much driven by current geopolitical and economic events, but perhaps aided and abetted by them. Too soon to tell for sure, but early indications are that some things are working better, and others, better still – but not all.
This is a work in progress I’m so happy to be part of, and my typical impatient nature is Chillin.
Reader feedback:
Well! This is a change of pace from Putin, politics and pestilence. I think there is nothing better than an old sweater, HM, Calgary, AB
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