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I’m extremely good at understanding every tiny facet of a problem but have a hard time boiling down my findings to the 3-5 most important insights on one PPT chart. For me, so much stuff is equally important and it gets messy in my head.
And I do procrastinate for seven days to then fix a week’s workload in 4h on Sunday nights and still get away with it.
I can especially relate to the second part… and then my team is super surprised how everything got done all of a sudden 😅
Trying to remember things, when there's a lot to juggle, starting when it's something I don't really want to do/is hard, starting when there's a lot to do.
Same
Buuut I have become better at seeing that and delegate that task or ask someone to be on a ‘co-working’ call and tell them what I need to get done
Working from home: hyper focused work for 3-4 hours in the morning then hit a wall and find myself physically unable to sit at my desk for longer than 2 minutes at a time so I start doing chores and wandering around my house then finally remember I needed to finish some slides so I make a snack and then sit down at my desk and maybe watch a YouTube video while I snack then realize it’s 4 pm and get super human focus back and finish my work by 7 pm
Sorry my adhd got a hold of me while writing this comment
I work for like 2 hours these days and I'm just done after
I have barely done any work this entire year of 2024. I can not focus at all esp wfh. All I do is clean the house when I wfh!
And now I'm on bench
"I can take 40 hours to do 4 hours worth of work; or do 40 hours worth of work in 4 hours; and I don't know which version of me is showing up on any given day"
I read that somewhere and never ever have I felt more seen.
This!
Good: building up a universe of domain knowledge in my head perfectly mapped out and fully traceable.
Bad: having to articulate any part of it to a human.
Community Builder
This
Good: coming up to speed super fast and starting or keeping a project moving as I eat humble pie along the way.
Bad: once one or two things slip I realize the novelty has worn off, it looks like burn out but working through the loss of interest and how it hits my ego and the guilt of feeling like I’m no longer meeting expectations is so draining.
Good: laser focus and cracking out work when all the stars align.
Menstrual cycle - the symptoms are unbearable
On top of all of those symptoms, craving sex / being horny, and not being able to get any
I’m good at the people side of the business/biz development, good writer, & good at analysis, but I struggle at deadlines, organization, & boring Excel models 🥲
This is me 1000%! Top and Middle Management adores me for the same positive things you mentioned , and my team members/peers kinda hate me a bit for the rest 🙈
The good: building out a massive status doc that synthesizes a bunch of disparate information into a single fingertip-ready cheat sheet.
The bad: updating that same damn doc daily 🤮
Oh the dreadfulness of knowing I will have to update/repeat something multiple times… but then when I find tools that help me succeed I will stick to them religiously. Fill out a PMO report I was asked to fill in 🤮 Update my own to do list and tick off boxes *like playing a game*
Afternoons when I am tired
During meeting calls and getting pings by various people