How Do You Start Your Day?

"Hey, I sound like those people with ADD!"

Hey Chuck, welcome to the club!

I don't think it's a "disorder".

And you are 100% correct. It's a "gift" that a lucky few of us are born with and have learned to use to our advantage.

ADD is a "symptom", caused by a society that cannot adapt to those of us who think at different levels than the majority of the world, expecting us to fit into their structures and boundries. We can't, but when we are forced to, the "symptoms" associated with ADD are what show up.

But, the symptom doesn't have to exist if you know how to work the "gift" to your advantage.

But it means I'm trying to learn how to work with what works for me. I'm finding that means I need prompts and reminders.

I can say I want to do things like plan my day, work my plan, etc. but I get distracted.

So I have to go back one step and build structures and prompts to do the other stuff!

Anyone else in that boat?

Let me recommend a good book to you. Check out "The Divinci Method" at.... http://www.davincimethod.com/ and listen to the Author's radio interview at.... http://loporto1.blogspot.com/

It will give you a real good understanding of the subject and show you how to excel with it.

Jim

I start my day waking up to the smell of coffee brewing around 6 AM. It's a nice way to wake up. I don't have an alarm clock but I always seem to wake up about the same time every day so I set the coffee pot accordingly.

After a few cups of coffee while checking my email, I'll usually solve a sudoku puzzle and then take a walk around the block with my iPod to try to burn off some excess energy that I know would only distract me the rest of the day if I don't.

I also use that time for some problem solving. I've always got a few projects going at once and I'm always trying to figure out a solution to a problem or how to make something work and my mind seems to work better when I'm out walking and not distrracted by other stuff.

Solutions excite me so when I come up with something good, I can't wait to get home and work the solution into whatever it is I'm working on.

I don't have the ability to "plan" my day. My mind can't seem to work like that. It's one of those ADD type traits.

Every day, I need to "create", and I need to do something that can hold my interest. My energies for the day are usually spent on whatever project I'm feeling most creative with and excited about at the moment. I'll work on whatever that is until that excitment level is gone or a greater one comes up.

I don't have the ability to work on two things at the same time. When I'm focused on one project, I'm "hyperfocused" and not much can distract me, but I always have multiple projects going because I know that when I come to a roadblock or a solution I can't figure out on one, I can easily shift to another one until that solution is figured out.

I work at two speeds - I'm either at 100% or 0% and there's no middle ground.

So I guess the answer to the question is that I never really know how my work day will start until I'm out walking and working where it all gets sorted out, but even what I come up with on that walk often changes.

Jim

Thanks for asking.

I start my day by waking up. I then get out of bed and walk into the kitchen where I put the pot on. While the water is boiling I "Do email" and sacrifice a goat and make a burnt offering.

Once the brew is poured I do the Kungabunga Oogie Rain Dance Jig to bring an end to the drought. Nothing yet, but I know if I keep at it eventually it will work, right? I mean, it will be my rain dance jig that will bring the rain and not naturally ocurring weather patterns or anything.

Following the rain dance I do the Funky Gibbon as taught to me by The Goodies. I then lay back into my Reclining Work Chair, set the computer to Auto Jack then shove a big metal spike-like thing into the jack in the back of my head. A few seconds later I am Jacked In to The Matrix.

After "unplugging" I go for a bike ride. Then start "work" where I oversee the antidisestablishmentarianism inductees to make sure they are carfunkling correctly and not jibblegobbing or corn cracking or shaking all over like a fuzzy tree. Truly rewarding.

Michael Ross

[Ankesh]

Originally Posted by MichaelRoss

I start my day by waking up.

Hehe

Michael - you need to upgrade.

Jacking into matrix is sooo 1999. Now a days - they have wireless portals to enter the matrix. No messy plugs needed.

And Kungabunga Oogie Rain Dance Jig does indeed work. But its inefficient because you cant control the location with Kungabunga Oogie Rain Dance Jig.

For a small fee, I can teach you the Riggly Diggly Rain Dance. Its much more advanced. Tlaloc himself taught the dance to me when I entered the mega-matrix with my super wi-max portal. Fnord.

Also bike rides are so last millenium. You should go for segway rides - less energy needed!