Finding Focus - Part One, Now what was I doing?

Sunday, March 2, 2008, by Leigh Anne

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Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. -Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway,
I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that
I brought up from the mail box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I’m going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left.

My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke I’d been drinking. I’m going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it over.

The Coke is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke,a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye–they need water. I put the Coke on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I’ve been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I’m going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I’ll be looking for the remote,
but I won’t remember that it’s on the kitchen table,so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I’ll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.

So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:
the car isn’t washed

the bills aren’t paid

there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter

the flowers don’t have enough water,

there is still only 1 check in my check book,

I can’t find the remote,

I can’t find my glasses,

and I don’t remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I’m really baffled because I know I was busy all stinking day, and I’m really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem,
and I’ll try to get some help for it,
but first I’ll check my e-mail….

And I thought I was just having a hard time focusing - now I can blame it on A.A.A.D.D.! This fun little description was sent to me by my sister in law last week and I thought it so perfectly described how some of my days go.

Is it just me or do the rest of you have a hard time focusing sometimes?

I guess this also explains why more times than I’d like to admit I find myself out in public with only half my makeup on.

I have this morning routine. I put on half my makeup and then blow dry my hair. I wait to put on my eye makeup until after my hair is dry because sometimes my eyes water while blow drying my hair and my eyeliner and mascara run.

More times than I’d like to admit though I get distracted after blow drying my hair. This week I was distracted by deciding I needed to clean out the makeup drawer.

My makeup drawer is now amazingly clean, and you can once again tell the inside of the drawer is white and not every shade of makeup I’ve every worn. But I ended up out in public again with only half my makeup on.

I didn’t even realize it until I was over at the high school, working in the costume shop, and my sweet high school freshman daughter (aka Makeup Maven) walked in and announced to the entire room - “Mom, you only have half your makeup on!”

One of the moms commented,”Oh, I thought you just had a cold.”

My goal for this week is to stay focused while applying my makeup and not go out in public with only half of it on!

One of the challenges of trying to balance being a mom with a homebased business is dealing with the many distractions we encounter on a daily basis - everything from phone calls, emails, doorbells, laundry, dirty dishes etc. There are a lot of distractions that come with just being a mom let alone adding a business or job on top of it!

Over the next few weeks I will share with you some tips and ideas for finding focus in your daily life/business so that hopefully I’ll be showing up in public with ALL my makeup on and both of us will be saying the following a little less..

“I start, but I get distracted and never finish.”

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