HOW TO FOCUS ON YOUR BUSINESS EVEN HAVING A.D.D.

You are told that key to achieve any goal is LASER-FOCUS on your actions…. How about if like me, you have Attention Deficit Disorder symptoms ? Ha !

And don’t worry, it’s not just young generations that are concerned.

I’m a « lady-boomer » , full menopaused and closer to my 60 ties than the 50ties…..
Well, if you are not sure what is ADD, give an eye to the definition in Wikipedia.

So, with that A.D.D. gift of the Universe, how do I manage to achieve my goals and laser focus on any thing that I need to focus on ?

I’m giving you here my 5 best tricks , and that I finally selected and that work for me, after I tried for years many …. excuses , in order to feed my A.D.D. symptoms.

Trick # 1 to laser focus : what ever is the action, and how ever it has to last, BREAK UP YOUR TASKS IN SHORT PERIODS OF TIME.

You cannot go against nature : you know that as A.D.D. person you need to be doing things for short time at once, and you need variety :
Organize your work, or your tasks in this way, and don’t try to function on a mode that frustrates your natural behavior.

Instead, use this gift, as I call it now, in the way that it serves you, and master it.

Hint : I say well : ” master ” , not to confuse with ” control “.  As control , when too much forced, ends up with  loss of control. OK ?

Anyway, you cannot control outside things nor people, so master yourself , that’s way enough .

Trick #2 to laser focus : ELIMINATE DISTRACTIONS AROUND YOUR SPACE OF ACTION ,

In other words, declutter your space, your room, your desk, before you start any task in this environement. That will put away from you the temptation to jump too early on another thing to do !

Having a clear and sober desk has helped me a lot to concentrate on only what’s in front of me.
That’s so simple.

But not easy for A.D.D. people, because we strongly tend to live among a certain disorder, even organized.
So that has been first a good exercise of DISCIPLINE to me, make it an habit to start any task in a clear decluttered space.

Trick # 3 to laser focus : PLAN your days . and even your week, on a sheet of PAPER and stick it on your wall or on your desk .

Plan for « A.D.D. action taker » schedule. Once again, use your natural tendancy to your profit :
Diversify your work, use 30 to 50 min maximum chunks of time.

Between each chunk of time, do something relaxing if you are very active like yard cleaning, or something active if you are static like working at your computer.

Always plan for being able to finish a long task on the same day that you started it.
And do it in the same raw of chunks of time , if possible.

Example : a task that takes 3 hours can be divided in 4 parts of 48 min, with 3 breaks of 10 min each.

Writing your daily schedule on a paper is important for you to visualize it first and program it into your subconscious, as well as it helps you to check along the day that you are on the right track with what you do. ADD people need reminders to call them back to what they have to continue on.

Trick # 4 to laser focus USE A TIMER, like a cooking timer, to help you in this « TIME MANAGEMENT » challenge for A.D.D.

First that frees you from surveying the clock .
Second, that may sound stupid, but this is to stop you from going on during a too long period of time , before your efficiency slows down.

Yes, you’ll do it as well,, you want to continue the task and you get less attentive to it and make mistakes. This is natural and it will happen, and it did already !

I swear you, the A.D.D. person can FOCUS efficiently on a single subgect no more than 50 minutes, that’s a rule.

So don’t even try do make it one hour even.
You’ll be wasting 10 minutes… your choice buddies.
Use a timer, select 15, 20, 30 , 40 , 50 minutes runs, not more.

Trick # 5 to laser focus : do at least 5 different things , or do the same thing 5 different ways in a day.

Use your imagination and your creativity, that is a game for ADD person.
That must sound quite obvious to you, but it’s not always the reality : we want to focus one ONE THING AT A TIME, and we want to FINISH what we start the same day. And we want to make that happen not against our nature, but with our abilities.

Never get bored by what you do.

How’s that boomers ?

For those who are NOT ADDs, that is NOT my recommendation, as those ways of scheduling their time won’t fit their abilities, like naturally concentrating on what they do.

So to cultivate the skill of LAZER FOCUS, with your A.D.D. « on » :

make those 5 tricks your habits :

1 = Break up your time, 2= Clear the runway , 3 = have your plan written on paper,
4 = use a timer, 5 = do 5 different things or 5 different ways of doing things at least, in one day.

Do you want to know :  how a young guy who has A.D.D. became millionnaire and successful in less than 3 years in his business ?

You want to know what he did, and learn to reproduce exactly this and make tons of money ?

Just watch this video, watch it , THERE.

PS. You know who I’m speaking about : Dave Wood yes.
And I know he is A.D.D. guy because he told us in some of his presentations. Ha ! you’re proud now, hey ! I am. so A.D.D.s, get all in !

PPS. Guess who asked us in EN to write about Focus ? ……… yes, it’s him. ☺ !

Now watch that video, it’s less than 50 min ! it’s only 23. And it speaks about at least 5 different things! It’s for you! The proof: I’ve A.D.D. and I’m in.