Today I am grateful for my new found mental clarity and capacity to do the things that I have always found incredibly difficult. Working on myself is hard, but fun and so amazingly rewarding.
Haven’t felt this good since I don’t know when
The Spin Doctors exploded onto our airwaves in the early 90s with their debut album Pocket Full of Kryptonite (1991). My big bro had a copy on CD and collectively we absolutely thrashed it to death. I’d argue – for a 30+ year old album it’s still on relatively high rotation for me. It’s funky, it’s high energy, it’s poetic. I love it! But then… nothing really happened. They released another 4 albums over the next 14 years but none of them really caught my attention. Not until If The River Was Whiskey in 2013.
Continue reading “Haven’t felt this good since I don’t know when”Today I am grateful for the stars in the sky. I love the stars. I love their importance in so many cultures and how they tell the passing of the seasons. Sometimes I love just staring at them and I love photographing them too.
Today I am grateful for my growing confidence and slowly yet steadily increasing ability to talk about what’s REALLY on my mind.
I can see into the future
For my entire adult life I have basically coasted by on very little planning or forethought. I’ve been “spontaneous” and “fun” according to those around me, but more often than I care to think about that’s landed me in some awful places. Straight up ignoring the fact that I’m spending more than I earn? Leaving the hard work of tidying up until “later” – knowing full well that even when I do tidy up it won’t last? Knowing that even if I start saving money there’ll still be some bill that will come up that will smash any accumulated nest egg?
Continue reading “I can see into the future”I can’t take direction and my socks are never clean
I was driving two thirteen year old boys around Wellington last weekend when one of them asked me to play P!nk. Teenage boys. P!nk!! He wanted to hear So What. This is obviously not that song! I threw on P!nks Greatest Hits…So Far!!! album, and suddenly remembered (as if I could forget) just how awesome she is as an artist. Three days this week I’ve woken up with this track in my head.
Continue reading “I can’t take direction and my socks are never clean”Today I am grateful that I have the support of an awesome counsellor and ADHD coach who is helping me navigate this weird and wonderful world
Today I’m grateful for my mum for bringing me up to be a decent human being and always providing all the space I needed just to be me. Happy Mother’s Day!
ADHD Symptoms 101 – Time blindness
Time is a wonderful human construct. It allows us to organise all manner of aspects of our life to the very second. A daily stand up, a project kick off, a dentist appointment, lunch with my mum. It allows us to carve off distinct parts of the future so that we can use them in productive ways. So what happens when you have poor executive function and there is zero distinction between 5 minutes from now and 5 hours from now?
Continue reading “ADHD Symptoms 101 – Time blindness”We know the game and we’re gonna play it
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My ADHD Playlist 