I’m far overdue for an sort of update to this site. I haven’t been tinkering anywhere near the level I was at while I was unemployed/freelancing and it shows. I … Read more
After a layoff from the ADD meds that spanned months in duration, I’m back in the saddle again, and the meds are keeping me functional. Middle of last week, after a bunch of rigamarole and floundering about, I decided to stick with my original psychiatrist, and went in to discuss the matter.
Image Credits: Dan Bailey/Copyright 2017.
All my life, I’ve been plagued by an onslaught of great ideas. If you know me for any amount of time, you know that this is both a blessing and a curse. An idea falls in my lap, and I get started on the pursuit of that idea, and then while that’s underway, more ideas crop up and they’re interesting…more interesting than the actual execution of the current project. You could say that I subscribe to Shiny Object Syndrome, which is a hallmark of ADD1. One of my big goals has been to really rein in that crap, because it really does nothing but create a lot of frustration/regret/etc.
In the interest of being successful at the overhaul I’m enacting on my life, I’ve realized that I need to combine small changes to existing habits using habit stacking rather than trying to make one gigantic change and eventually failing at it. “Eating a healthy diet” isn’t something that happens overnight.
Lately, I’ve been on a bit of a kick to combine my closeted data nerd tendencies and my recent interest in self-improvement. Thus, this year is about deciding what data … Read more