How to Move from Chaos to Clarity
Getting a diagnosis of ADHD as an adult is a strange experience. Growing up, you know inside that you’re different. You can’t sit still, you can’t focus on mundane tasks, and you struggle in “boring” environments. As an impressionable kid, you start to believe those things are negative reflections of your character rather than just the way you were born.
For a long time, I just thought I was flawed. It wasn’t until I started working in the education system with kids who had ADHD that I saw the stark similarities in myself. I reached a point in my life where I wanted to optimise everything. I realised that if I could be better, I was doing myself a disservice by not investigating it.
Hard Work vs. Effective Work
Getting diagnosed didn’t just give me a label; it changed the way I viewed work. I used to struggle to focus long enough to get a task done. Now, I don’t see “hard work” as a grind anymore, I see it as an opportunity to learn and grow.
But even with a diagnosis, the biggest hurdle is still what I call “Procrastination Vs Productivity” Trap.
You get to your computer, and you’ve got a to-do list a mile long. You’ve got 1,000 different jobs to do. The trap is picking the easiest tasks instead of the ones that actually move the needle. You spend hours on things that demand your time but give you zero “bang for your buck.” Mastering the skill of identifying what will actually give you a payoff today is a constant battle.
From Chaos to Clarity: The 5-Stage Process
This is why I built the Game Plan. It’s a behaviour change model designed to take you from a state of chaos to absolute clarity. When you want to change something in your life: your fitness, your career, your relationships, it’s daunting. It’s too big to handle at once.
We break it down into five manageable chunks:
- Awareness: You have to actually want to change. You can have the best teachers in the world, but if the internal switch isn’t flipped, nothing happens.
- Acceptance: Your life is the way it is right now. That’s okay. You have to accept the current reality before you can build a new one.
- Accountability: This is the “harsh” part. Taking ownership of the choices that got you here so you can reclaim the power to leave.
- Advantage: This is where we flip the script. Those things you used to cast yourself away for? We look at how those differences are actually your unique advantage.
- Action: This isn’t just theory. It’s pinpoint action you can take today, tomorrow, and next month to move toward your “North Star.”
Finding Your North Star
If you’re struggling with the noise in your head and a list of tasks that never ends, you need a system, not more willpower. You need to know what your “best-case scenario” looks like so you can stop doing “busy work” and start taking purposeful action.
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