ADD-ADHD Mindfulness Matters Musings

Blog? Mindfulness? Oh yeah, do it daily.

Ok, I admit it, I haven't written in a month.  Excuses, I have so many, but like many things that people with ADHD want to do on a regular basis, it has to be scheduled to become a habit.  When it comes to writing I prefer to be a bit more 'free spirited'.  I put too many restrictions on myself about how this blog had to be perfectly done before I could just let my thoughts flow.  Or, how I had to have my website and the words ADD and ADHD in every sentence in order to promote my blog on Google.  It is these perfectionist expectations that hold us back.  Today, while reviewing my weekly goals, and amidst the reality of all that I want to accomplish, I said to myself, "Just Do It".  So here it is. And when my Tele-Class titled "Mindfulness VS ADHD" that I am presenting on ADDclasses.com is over and done with Wednesday, April 23rd, 3:00 - 4:00 EST, I will again feel relaxed and satisfied and finished and ready to move on to the next project.

OH, wait, this entry IS moving on even in the midst of all my preparations and emotions about Wednesday's presentation.

YEAH ME!  whew, that feels a lot better.  A reminder to myself and others that we do not have to do everything perfectly and that staying in my moment will help me to accomplish a whole lot more then I could have ever imagined while being elsewhere in my head. 

Thanks for 'listening' and remember, Mindfulness Matters.

 

ADHD and Instructions OR I'm In Widget Hell

GEEZ, I really thought that I had gotten past the point  where 'you' build the computer desk or use a new voice recorder first and then when 'you' run into trouble 'you' frantically scan through the instructions to find out how to do or fix what is not working: apparently not! I was so excited about getting my blog published that I didn't really read or see or process anything on TypePad that said not to publish your blog until you have totally set up every little design and techie thing AND have written at least 2 entries. It says that on page one of the "Get Started with...", which I also did not see.  Oh well, no one knows that this exists yet, I think.

Ok, what is with these widget things? I mean I'm clicking on and signing up for everything that the TypePad instructions are 'pointing out' to me that would get people to know about my blog through all these "feeds".  Ah geez, here comes a contrite confession from a real true computer geek, I have only subscribed to one "feed" and I think I did it wrong because I have never gotten any notification about anything like entries or whatever it is supposed to notify me about??? 

The thing is, I read too much.  My mentor/teacher/coach/friend, Sandy Maynard told me so many years ago.  Most of it is trying to stay abreast of the latest research, journals, 'how-to's and news so that I can continue to learn and grow as a Coach and Therapist.  Some of it is getting distracted by so many wonderful websites full of information during my 'free computer time' (confession: I was about to make that quote a link to my website so you could read a book review that I wrote for ADDitude Magazine last month, but it isn't added to my articles page yet, oops). AND, some of it is just plain curiosity and fun.

So, back to the blog instructions and these widgets.  By the way, this is my second blog entry that I was supposed to have had posted already.  I have added a bunch of widgets but I need to go back to the instructions and find out if I did it right.  I mean really, I have to keep signing up for all these websites so the widgets will work and it is really making me nervous!  Then I have to move on to the rest of the 'chapters' so that I can find out all the other things that I have done right or wrong and that I still have to do or add or just plain learn for fun! Whew! This blogging thing is kind of complicated. I am reminding myself and whoever might read this in the near future (I hope) that, Mindfulness Matters.

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A SANE Beginning

Structure
Accountability
Negotiate
Efficiency

That is the Acronym on the top of my websites home page.  This is my welcome post, my very first blog entry for me, mine, my very own blog!  So, what am I supposed to be doing at this very moment?  Well, I am supposed to be getting ready to leave for my Burlington office, finished paperwork stored in my briefcase, water bottle filled and lunch ready to go.  I have been SO HYPERFOCUSED on getting a blog set up and which site to use, for the past 3 days that my eyes hurt from looking at the computer screen.  I tried SO hard to learn WordPress because it was free and attached to my websites hosting server.  I gave up this morning when I came out of my hyperfocusing haze.

I will forgive myself.  I will stay off of the computer for the whole rest of the day. I will stop typing now and get my stuff together.  I will remind myself and anyone who might see this entry that we with ADHD get so excited and exuberant over new projects that our ideas flow faster and freer then the spring ahead clock has hours to spare.  Mindfulness Matters.

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