ADHD is a Pendulum for Motivation and Productivity

The last week was more about Jody with ADHD, less about Jody the Solorpreneur

The past ten days, have been a bit of a rollercoaster for my brain.

A week ago last Friday, I learned about how pushing myself too hard with writing can melt my brain, and it stayed broken for much of the week. I never quite found my writing stride, though I did publish daily.

I found my week was a bit listless as several topics that I had been exploring all started to come to the forefront, most specifically I recognized that some of my ‘offering’ and general position as a solopreneur is a bit unclear. Furthermore, I’ve also not built my system for project management yet, and now it’s starting to show.

Summing Things Up

Personal

After the rough weekend and feeling like my brain didn’t work, there was a lot of frustration and apathy all week. I was feeling like I was doing the wrong things, or that I didn’t know what I was doing at all.

ADHD can be rough, it has a component that trends towards anxiety and depression. There’s also something called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) that leaves you thinking everything you say is dumb and everybody hates you. It’s like I’m a teenager in a grown man’s body!

I was in a lot more reaction mode last week, but also digging into what matters to me and what my purpose is. I mentioned that I’m offering coaching, but didn’t elaborate and realize that if it isn’t immediately obvious to ME what I’m offering, I can’t expect it of others.

Business

I spent time on 2 platforms, but as stated, I wasn’t operating so effectively.

Medium in a nutshell - I gained 36 followers and 3 subscribers last week. I only made $13.

• My writing was off last week, and the beginning of the week was more content about writing on Medium, which isn’t compelling.

Substack in a nutshell - not looking good

• Mindfullish gained 1 subscriber.

• Channeling Chaos gained 2 subscribers.

My favorite Medium post last week was from a conversation I had with my daughter:

Is Life Just Moving From One Thing that Stresses You Out to Another?

Lessons Learned

I’m not happy with the click-through rate or retention for any of the stuff I’m writing, I’d love to get more people taking the time to look and then feeling compelled to stick around and read.

• I need to work on my headline skills

• I need to work on my outreach and marketing skills.

• I might need the “2 hrs of writing every morning” to be more strictly enforced.

I also see that much of my writing style is “personal journal” which is great for me, not for others. It also tends to read like a help center article, go figure. I’ve written in those two styles for years.

Gratitude

I’m grateful that last week’s ‘performance’ isn’t what is feeding my family this week.

I’m coming out of a funk, and I’m grateful for my support network, it’s so important to have people who will listen and be helpful.

Those of you who open this and read it every week!

What’s Coming Up

I’m working on my Notion template (which I’ll share when it’s working) that helps my ADHD brain and productivity style to give a compelling reason for my tasks and also offer tools to help me when one method doesn’t work.

I’m also spending time clarifying what I’m writing about, where, how and what I’m offering to the world.

Lastly, I’m trying to get more ‘storyteller’ in my Medium posts. Maybe my Mindfullish posts, though we’re not there this week.

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Thanks for Reading

There aren’t enough of you yet to know if you want stories from the week, a more story-like post or these business points.

This was a short and journal-like newsletter, pretty dry. If you find this interesting, let me know. If you’re curious about other aspects of how I’m running this business.