Some weeks you are turning work away. Other weeks the diary is quiet and a small worried voice asks whether the phone will ever ring again. Why the feast-or-famine cycle hits ADHD brains hardest, and three things that soften the swings.
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You get to the end of the day and cannot point to a single thing you actually finished. You were busy the whole time. You barely stopped. And yet the list is longer than it was this morning, and the one thing that mattered is still sitting there, untouched. If that is a familiar feeling, [...]
Pricing your work can be harder than the work itself. You quoted for the job, then knocked money off before the client could even react. Or you have not raised your prices in three years, because the thought of telling people makes you feel slightly sick. If you run a business with an ADHD or [...]
You know you should delegate. Everyone says so. Hand off the admin, get help with the inbox, stop being the bottleneck in your own business. And yet here you are, doing all of it yourself at 11pm. If you run a business with an ADHD or AuDHD brain, letting go of a task can feel [...]
You are good at your job. Everyone says so. You hit your targets, meet your deadlines, and deliver quality work. What nobody sees is what it costs you. The late nights catching up on admin you could not start during the day. The anxiety before every meeting because you have not read the papers. The [...]
