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Yesterday, walking through the airport between a restaurant and wireless electronics store had a great yellow sign that said something like this:
Are you distracted? Do you lose focus easily? Do you forget things? You may have ADHD, send a text or find us on the web at the website (some).
The website is not really your site, of course. After reading the sign and looking around For a moment I realized. What better place to try to convince people who have ADHD than one airport. Everyone is either in a hurry to forget something, or boring your mind to lose focus and get distracted easily.
Our entire society and the marketing system is based on these principles. Is every person who purchases a "keyfinder" a candidate ADHD? Who knows. What I do know is that, like all things in life it was another organization looking to recruit candidates in an ideal location. Most people with normal brain function will have some degree of ADHD. If you have five Starbucks cards in your wallet or do like me and drinking three 32 oz Diet Coke before lunch, you could be a higher level of ADHD to caffeine disappears.
We live in a society full of distractions. iPods, cell phones, pocket cameras to high definition film for You Tube and bright yellow signs with messages when you're right ADHD looking for lost boarding pass all are designed to distract. Maybe they're trying to keep us entertained and busy?
The the truth is that we live in a world where the absolute necessity of approach is almost zero. My generation and younger people that I rarely have any type of specialized care. Our parents tell us "you can do anything he wants to do." If we take something and change our mind, they just say, "Okay dear." To matters worse, we live in a "now" information society. When someone calls or texts that we expect immediate response.
Reality is, until we know what drives us, it will always be a little distracted and unfocused. If each one can only find our true calling and put everything other distractions in a drawer that would be better. Some of us get lucky and our parents instill in us that focus like Tiger Woods (sexting apart), and others who get lucky and find their passion for their own or by accident ..
After seeing quite a few accidents as the result of messages text, I took a look at my own cell phone habits and texting in the car. Since then I have stopped responding to calls for two reasons. First Instead, I was on autopilot when the phone and sometimes flying near my exit ramp or destination. Any time I saved at the call was lost.
Second and more importantly I realized that I have so many things I could not concentrate on what he was doing or what he was talking to the person at the other end of the conversation about. This is one where I needed only to follow my own advice. Do not take any calls that are not willing to take. If you call and I'm on the road, chances are good I forget any appointments or anything that sets it is assumed that for you. If I take a call in the office on the computer, then I am ready, and both get more out of it.
While writing my book, "So, what now?" I noticed a lot of very successful people. What I started to do was follow the advice he was giving in my book as a result of these observations. I have more things every day are preparing to do what I do when I'm doing. Life is better this way. It feels slower and have more time to do what you do.
Is it ADHD or lack of self discipline in a world of distractions?
Scott Bourquin is the Author of “So, Now What?” and the CEO of Rustic Creek. Additionally he is a director for a charity in Houston Texas. He retired in 2004 as a decorated military instructor pilot in the Air Force Reserves to return to running his company full time. He currently resides just outside of Houston Texas. His website is http://www.sonowwhatscott.com and he also blogs about technology at kuhltoys.wordpress.com.
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