ADHD - Full of Ideas

[@glenngriffon8032]

ADHD is like living with a design department in your head but the planning department is short staffed and often closed. You have a million and one ideas that you churn out all the time but no one to implement those ideas, IE motivation.

[@MorteDallAlto]

This is an incredibly apt analogy!

[@saragolden3552]

Amen

[@trishferrer8209]

Exactly! 😂 I laugh, but it's a bummer too.

[@Kaarver]

I totally relate, so many unfinished projects, things lying around and going to waste 😢. But you slabs of wood are at least great for biodiversity in your garden, and once broken down they’re going to be great for soil-improvement.

[@RichardT2112]

Positive spin: Termites and various bugs are loving the Woody Ritz-Carlton! Sorry Rick, that’s all I got … as I stare at the slabs in my back garden which have been there for 6+ years now … and counting.

[@joyfulchristina]

Just gave an embarrassed smile over hear. I may or may not be guilty of such things.

[@AnnaAndAndyTaylor]

lol. Can totally relate to this. ‘All the gear, and no idea’ is how my brain works a lot of the time. Ps - I also had lots of cut down tree trunks that lay around for a while. They were starting to rot, and I couldn’t lift them. Someone advised me to put them on gumtree as ‘free firewood / wood - collection only’ I posted pictures and was honest about their condition. Incredibly people were falling over themselves to collect and all were gone within 24 hrs.

[@HereNow-r3f]

😂 I have a yard full of logs that have sat there since winter...thanks Rick!

[@RickHasADHD]

You're welcome! Think of the bonfire we could have!

[@grabasandwich]

I'm in my mid-40s, and I can probably count the number of projects that I've seen through to completion on one hand. I realized long ago that I'm just a dreamer, and now try not to take on anything new, and just exist. And I've never had an official diagnosis.

[@davidspencer1558]

Love you man.

[@shawnladd5440]

I have yet to fully unpack and I moved in four years ago 😅

[@aleksandrazobova]

Only two years in my case, but still... Repair workers come and ask: 'You've just moved in, right?" Riiiiiiight

[@jazzy7459]

Can relate, got a house, garden and garage full of unfinished “ideas” 😢

[@odalysruiz4]

Love u! 🙏🏻👑👼🏼♥️🫂

[@TheAmtwhite]

Should have sold them. They’re probably worth lots. But I wouldn’t have gotten around to selling them either lol.

[@xsyn1636]

I think the original idea is wonderful you're steps away from unlocking a new love

[@RickHasADHD]

Exciting!

[@Chris-uh3cm]

Wow it’s like you know me personally 😂

[@gordonandmaggie6324]

I have over 50 half-finished handmade covid masks if anyone wants any...

[@brianguayartist]

So many things that I will never do, and so little that I'll ever do...

[@RickHasADHD]

I hear you, Brian.

[@Caroline-c1z]

Story of my life! ❤

[@cathykirkwood6707]

I recently moved and ended up having at least 22 bags of trash that I threw away because I was on a deadline and I had to get rid of it. I also have at least 24 bags of Goodwill stuff. That's a result of hey I'm going to go try that crap I'm going to go try that recipe I'm going to go try this or that and never did and now the stuff is just sitting there. It's really sad because once I do involve myself in hyperfocus in a crap or in a good meal it's fantastic but that just doesn't happen as much as I would like.

[@RickHasADHD]

Hopefully as you develop your ability to hyper-focus when you want to things will improve. There's no such thing as perfection. I still misplace my keys every month or so. But it used to be almost daily.

[@TheAmtwhite]

So what’s the best way to prevent these “great ideas” from negatively impacting your life?

[@MorteDallAlto]

If you find out please let me know!

[@YogZab]

They look cool as it. Sculptural!

[@eleanorbarsic8065]

Me*gasp!*thats a great idea... Annnnd im in the same bucket

[@joelbarr1163]

Full of great and terrible ideas

[@davemacdonald1932]

Firewood! Time for a bonfire! You still had a wonderful idea. Give credit where credit is due. The only problem was you didn't get to it early enough and/or there wasn't someone available to help. Steps are a big job and they're heavy

[@MissMarinaCapri]

Many people with ADHD have great ideas, but not the energy or the discipline of time to turn it into reality.

[@bugsybrown1745]

I would have saved the tree cookies too

[@Supe063]

Rick. Remember that Pothole Proof Car? THAT was a great idea!! Well, I thought so anyway. Turns out it's really hard to steer.

[@wilhelmroentgen5373]

Hey Rick. If you want them gone let me know, I'm just north of Waterdown and we can come get them at no cost.

[@PercivalBlakeney]

We're full of ideas certainly. That little ol' "good idea fairy" isn't always benevolent. Hardly ever it seems. 🙄

[@johangroenen]

Hehe

[@lobos342]

Well, stop making videos and get to them. 😂

[@76_Red_Pills]

What self-respecting man doesn't have slabs laying around? My ex-wife is under one over there... LOOK, a Squirrel !

[@justmecrafting9238]

😂😂 the story of my life

[@SkippysBacon]

So much of the clutter around me are the remains of "great ideas" that never came to be...

[@lisakaye3935]

This would be me 😆

[@RickHasADHD]

You. Me. And a whole bunch of other folks.

[@lisakaye3935]

@RickHasADHD 😊 and proud we are!

[@cathykirkwood6707]

Plus I do think this gentleman has said he does take the medication and still he's at this place I'm at the same place and I don't take the medication

[@RickHasADHD]

I do take medication. But I'm not at the same place as I was 20 years ago. I'm just not where I want to be.