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Recent entries from the ADDiva blog
(because it's different for women) Perfectly imperfect I have a beautiful new website design for ADDiva that will be unveiled any minute now.
I have a matching email newsletter template that is almost-but-not-quite-ready to go public.
And late last night, in an enthusiastic fever to send out Clutter Gutter tips, I accidentally sent the almost-but-not-quite-ready newsletter template to all the ADDivas. Including me.
When it appeared in my Inbox I was puzzled. Then horrified. Omigod - now you all will know that I'm not ... perfect.
Hey, I'm ADDiva One. I created the ADDiva Network. I am supposed to have it "all together." Not make mindless mistakes in the middle of the night.
And it hit me once again. I am STILL trying to hide my ADD-ish-ness. This time, from the very people who should know, expect and forgive me for it.
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Does not play well with others ...
The realization was shocking in its intensity.
I literally bolted out of bed this morning to write it down: I avoid team projects and collaborations like the plague because of my ADD.
I'm spending the week in hot-hot-hot Scottsdale, AZ at the Breakthrough to Success seminar with author Jack Canfield. We've been working with a partner or in groups of three or four since we arrived three days ago. No problem at all for me. Our work was completed in the room the very same day.
But now, there is talk of collaborations with other participants that will mean long term commitments and continued contact. I can tell that I am already beginning to shut down. I return to my room during breaks instead of "networking" with other participants. I find myself growing shy instead of being outgoing and gregarious as I was at the beginning of the week.
I hate it. I want to participate. But I have had my fill of being the person with great ideas, lots of energy, optimism...and then as my time fills up or my interest wanes, becoming the person who is undependable, "flaky" or missing in action.
I know deep in my heart (or brain) that I will get 1) bored or 2) busy and then begin to miss deadlines or appointments. Then comes that sinking feeling of drowning in Too Much To Do. Followed closely by pin pricks of resentment that I "have to" go to that meeting or "promised I would" come up with a proposal by 5 pm on the 22nd. Read more by clicking here...
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