ADHD
Discussions around overcoming executive disfunction, distractibility, and... wait what was I doing?
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I haven't had a todo list for a few weeks now
I've been following Jung's advice and quietly doing the next and most necessary thing; this was messy but relatively easy, once I truly committed to it
The closest thing I can think of is having to march for a very long time, without knowing where you're going or how long it will take. You have to mentally leave people close to you behind, without a good answer to questions like what you're doing, where you're going or how long it will take. It makes you doubt whether it's worth the pursuit
But if you keep at it long enough, eventually you'll win the high ground where the fog lifts and you can see the landscape
It feels like waking up from a months-long stupor
I am now ready to list my goals; one of the things I know I have to do is giving a name to the list, a discrete identity (ideally on its own journal). If I make a week-based list, but then the week goes by and the list remains unfinished, the items will feel historical and there is a high probability they will never get done or procrastinated into an emergency
But if the list exists and has a discrete identity, it will persist through time and I can come back to it, each time quietly doing and checking off the next and most necessary thing, until it's finally done
"A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep." 12 replies
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