Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Work ahead
Nothing of value is created by waiting until the last minute to put forth the necessary effort. Go ahead and get it done. The sooner you take a difficult action, the less time you’ll spend burdened by the necessity of it. At your earliest opportunity, get it done. Your work is better when it is calm, intentional and relaxed. Rather than being rushed and filled with anxiety, do the work now. You won’t make anything easier by putting it off until later. Do your future self a favor and do the work right away. If you seek to get ahead, there’s a straightforward and accessible way. Work ahead. Minimize the time you must agonize over it and maximize the amount of time you spend knowing it’s finished. When there’s anything to be done, go ahead and make it happen.

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In response Deb Cummings to her Publication

As a person with ADHD and a huge procrastinator this is super hard. It’s obviously the right path, my brain knows that, but ADHD paralysis is very real, something I struggle with all the time. And don’t tell me it’s a made up excuse. I’m 60 years old and I’ve dealt with this my whole life and just recently learned what it is and what it’s caused from in the ADHD realm. It’s based on dopamine rush. If something’s not going to give me a dopamine rush, I just don’t care. I have to do things to trick myself or play games to get myself to do something for that rush. Once I get going, I’m good it’s the getting going, the starting that’s hard. The one trick I’ve learned to count to 5 and then just get up and start don’t think. Thinking as a huge part of the problem. Have to think through the entire scenario, even if it’s something simple, to make sure we can accomplish it. Sometimes that’s the motivation we need and sometimes it makes you feel like you’ve already done it.

In response Brave Grace to her Publication

But I am screenshotting this for motivation. Motivation is huge for people with ADHD. Most of the time there are not huge consequences to putting things off. But for me the main ones is mentioned in your message, the energy used constantly considering it instead of doing it is wearing and leads to a lot of guilt and feeling incompetent, negative thoughts. And the times when it affects what should be done with future time or could be done, but instead you have to do what you put off or do it first. Let’s say I put off doing laundry, then suddenly have to go out of town for a family emergency. Now I have to get clothes done to have what I need for the trip, adding extra time onto preparing. Instead of being able to just pack and go.

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