I'm sorry you lost your job. I totally feel you on the ADD thing. I am ADHD. I take medication and it really does help get my mind to stop going into a million different directions. Medication also helps me stay more grounded emotionally. I think personally it makes me a little boring and takes away some creativity, but for me the tradeoff is worth it. If you need someone to talk about this message me, sometimes it's nice to have a little support group.
Experiment 1. Maintain a stack of goals. While true, If the goal at the top of the stack is completed, pop it off the stack. Continue. If the goal at the top of the stack is immediately attainable, do it. Continue. Break the goal at the top of the stack into a set of new goals, "overcome obstacle A", "obtain tool B", etc. Push all of these new goals onto the stack.
Experiment 2. Program your cell phone or a computer you regularly use to give you a daily reminder of the thing you most need reminding of (whatever that is). So, for example, I use the reminder "Remember to live inside your own skin", because it is easy for me to neglect my regularly-recurring needs (simple things like eating enough, drinking enough, going to the bathroom, and talking to friends). That neglect makes the lower parts of my brain go "hey, something's wrong!" and the higher parts of my brain go "I'm trying to work on this problem, but I am distracted for some reason."
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Two experiments:
Experiment 1.
Maintain a stack of goals.
While true,
If the goal at the top of the stack is completed, pop it off the stack. Continue.
If the goal at the top of the stack is immediately attainable, do it. Continue.
Break the goal at the top of the stack into a set of new goals, "overcome obstacle A", "obtain tool B", etc. Push all of these new goals onto the stack.
Experiment 2.
Program your cell phone or a computer you regularly use to give you a daily reminder of the thing you most need reminding of (whatever that is). So, for example, I use the reminder "Remember to live inside your own skin", because it is easy for me to neglect my regularly-recurring needs (simple things like eating enough, drinking enough, going to the bathroom, and talking to friends). That neglect makes the lower parts of my brain go "hey, something's wrong!" and the higher parts of my brain go "I'm trying to work on this problem, but I am distracted for some reason."
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