If you have ADHD, you may think to yourself "So what's so bad about procrastinaton- hey, it worked for Mozart!
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Of course most humans are not gifted in the ways that Mozart was. In the film Amadeus, Mozart (played by Tom Hulce), when asked by Emanuel Schikaneder about his progress with Don Giovanni, said that the opera was finished. “In here, in my noodle. The rest is just scribbling.” That was how his brain wiring operated.
He was able to create and write music in virtually any conditions or circumstances, retain it in his “noodle”, and access it at will. The vast majority of us humans aren’t quite so lucky. If you add ADHD to the mix, carrying a lot of detailed info, tasks, and projects around in your head without some structure to access and employ it is a surefire way to make your ADHD appear at your doorstep, and sometimes stay for an extended visit. You're left with an unorganized clutter of thoughts and ideas and an inability to access and put them together skillfuly.
Many of us have used and probably still use the “Adrenaline Method”, hoping that the stimulation at the last-minute will propel us to completion. Sometimes it works (probably less often than it used to). We learn to count on it, and our procrastination ensures we will need to use it. The problem is that it doesn’t work over the long haul.
We probably picked up the procrastination pattern when we were younger and life was simpler. We got through high school, and maybe college, then our jobs, resorting to last-minute approaches. Then as adults, we keep painting ourselves into a corner because we didn’t manage our time effectively, or didn’t break down large tasks into sub-tasks, or we simply do the things that are more interesting and fun, but lower priority. The bigger, more important thing keeps getting pushed back, ignored (taxes, bills, health issues…).
So we partner up with an ADHD Coach, learn the skills to help us avoid procrastination, to effectively open our eyes and our minds to how and when we’re at our best, and know what to do when ADHD rears its head. We do the work. It’s the best approach to managing your ADHD and moving in the direction of what you consider success to be for you. When I saw and understood the truth in this is when I decided to become an ADHD Coach.
The more we are informed by our behavior when our ADHD shows up, the less we’re ruled by it, and able to use the skills we learn to manage challenges like procrastination. When we improve at seeing (with more interest and less emotional attachment) how our ADHD brain wiring affects our behavior and decisions, what we see might not be laugh-out-loud funny, but it can certainly be amusing.
Procrastination? Don’t beat yourself up about it, go ahead and laugh about it… just don’t put off doing something about it.
For rest of blog, click
http://www.dooleycoaching.com/toms-blog/archives/08-2016
Of course most humans are not gifted in the ways that Mozart was. In the film Amadeus, Mozart (played by Tom Hulce), when asked by Emanuel Schikaneder about his progress with Don Giovanni, said that the opera was finished. “In here, in my noodle. The rest is just scribbling.” That was how his brain wiring operated.
He was able to create and write music in virtually any conditions or circumstances, retain it in his “noodle”, and access it at will. The vast majority of us humans aren’t quite so lucky. If you add ADHD to the mix, carrying a lot of detailed info, tasks, and projects around in your head without some structure to access and employ it is a surefire way to make your ADHD appear at your doorstep, and sometimes stay for an extended visit. You're left with an unorganized clutter of thoughts and ideas and an inability to access and put them together skillfuly.
Many of us have used and probably still use the “Adrenaline Method”, hoping that the stimulation at the last-minute will propel us to completion. Sometimes it works (probably less often than it used to). We learn to count on it, and our procrastination ensures we will need to use it. The problem is that it doesn’t work over the long haul.
We probably picked up the procrastination pattern when we were younger and life was simpler. We got through high school, and maybe college, then our jobs, resorting to last-minute approaches. Then as adults, we keep painting ourselves into a corner because we didn’t manage our time effectively, or didn’t break down large tasks into sub-tasks, or we simply do the things that are more interesting and fun, but lower priority. The bigger, more important thing keeps getting pushed back, ignored (taxes, bills, health issues…).
So we partner up with an ADHD Coach, learn the skills to help us avoid procrastination, to effectively open our eyes and our minds to how and when we’re at our best, and know what to do when ADHD rears its head. We do the work. It’s the best approach to managing your ADHD and moving in the direction of what you consider success to be for you. When I saw and understood the truth in this is when I decided to become an ADHD Coach.
The more we are informed by our behavior when our ADHD shows up, the less we’re ruled by it, and able to use the skills we learn to manage challenges like procrastination. When we improve at seeing (with more interest and less emotional attachment) how our ADHD brain wiring affects our behavior and decisions, what we see might not be laugh-out-loud funny, but it can certainly be amusing.
Procrastination? Don’t beat yourself up about it, go ahead and laugh about it… just don’t put off doing something about it.
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