I just realized one of my biggest challenges on ADHD is planning long term.
Right now, I can’t do that.
I can make plans short term.
Like for the day or the next couple of weeks.
But setting a clear goal for what I want to achieve in life and then work on this goal is something I just can’t do.
I knew this for a long time, but now it hit me quite obviously.
But how can I change that?
If there’s no dopamin in it, I can’t get myself to do it.
Just recently, when I didn’t write in here, I spent hundreds of hours on a mobile game. Because its high dopamine.
Also I realized while gaming, that it’s a territory thing. Everyone strives for a territory. Be it his family, his job, his company, his gym, whatever.
A place where you are validated by others.
I had it in this game again.
I was an officer in a top 5 Alliance.
And a top 40 player on our server.
But what I’d really need is a real life territory.
But how can I get there?
The addictive thing about games is how easy you make progress. How fast you reach milestones. Especially in competition with others.
In real life however, everything needs a lot more time and the outcome is unsure.
When starting a business, you’ll easily spend more time on it than I spent on my game. And it’s probable that you don’t see any success at all during this time.
How is my ADHD brain supposed to make it through this period?
I mean I struggle with finding a proper job because the search is tiring.