When people ask me for advice on how to live more easily with ADHD, one of the strategies I recommend is: work to your strengths.
It’s how I structure my day. The mantra when I get stuck. The oracle when I need to make decisions. And the goal I have with my ADHD coaching clients.
Here’s how this played out in my work.
I love to talk about ADHD. I jump at the chance to talk on ADHD summits (in fact, you can join me on Crush It at Work and School this month!). I conduct weekly trainings on ADHD in the ADHD Success Club. I even host a podcast called Kick Some ADHD.
What I don’t like are all the creatives that go with these – designing free opt ins and graphics, setting up emails, doing all the tech stuff behind the scenes.
Yes, I can do all of this and have been for years. But I would procrastinate and focus on all the important things. My energy would get drained. I ended my days an absolute exhausted rag. Miserable and cranky. And questioning whether I wanted to have this business.
Then I realized – If I could sit down and just talk about ADHD, I’d be the happiest ADHD coach in the world.
So now I am. Because I work to my strengths and I don’t do those creatives anymore. I’ve hired someone else who LOVES to do those tasks.
One other example is Stephen Nedoroscik. He recently rose to fame at the Paris Olympics after he competed on the pommel horse. His only event. Sure, he could’ve trained on the other apparatus, but Stephen specialized after discovering the pommel horse was his strength. And he earned a bronze medal!
So this week, remember: Just because you can do something doesn’t make it a strength. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.
Take a look at the tasks you do on a regular basis or maybe the ones you have been putting off. Consider if that something is one of your strengths. If it isn’t, and you don’t have to do it, avoid it. Hire someone else to do it. Or say no. It’s just not worth setting yourself up to struggle.
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