Start Doing Things in Ways That Feels Good to YOUR Brain

When ADHD started trending on Instagram, I - like thousands of others - sat up and took notice. I've yet to decide if we were born with it or if our fast-paced, technology driven culture has "given" it to us, but regardless - I found myself nodding along and feeling deeply understood as the influencers expostulated on the woes of living with ADHD.

I never went to the doctor or sought out a diagnosis. What I did do was take notes. Copious notes. And I started putting these people's strategies into place in my own life, and lo and behold - they worked!

Occassionally, I still evaluate something I'm doing that just isn't working and say "how could my brain tackle this in a way that feels better?" **Because, let's be real - barrier to entry is real. If my brain doesn't want to, or doesn't think it can in a way that's going to be coughperfectcough, my brain wants nothing to do with it.

Writing was one of these areas. I have SO many ideas. And even though I know there are common themes and connective threads that run among them, I've never been able to sit down and write them out linearly - in book form - which seemed the only valid way to do it in my head for so long. So, what did I do? I just never wrote. Or, I'd start, get overwhelmed and abandon the project.

So, at the beginning of the year, I decided to just write in the way that my brain feels best - in highly passionate spurts and fragments.

I got a huge vase out of my attic and put it in the corner of my craft room. Then, when I'd have an idea I would write it on whatever scrap of paper was closest and stick it in that vase. It's chaotic, but contained. And every morning, I grab out a prompt and start writing. Even if it's garbage. Just put fingers to the keyboard.

Here's some ecouragement to do things in a way that feels good to your brain. Work WITH your body, not against it.

Who knows what will come of this new practice... But nothing ventured, nothing gained...

Here's to purpose.