We think it would be really, really interesting if we could pull back the curtain a little bit and let everybody take a peek at how we are applying consistency, and using ADD to our advantage to work on a project together. We're going to use the ADD Axioms project that we developed, which were created in 12 days and they were created at the same time every day for 12 days straight. Some people would say that requires a lot of consistency.
But we think that things like that require a lot of excitement for people with ADD, rather than consistency, to do something for 12 days straight. It requires a lot of consistency to do something every week for 12 weeks or every month for 12 months. When you’re talking about short surges of time, I don’t know that that’s about consistency. I think that’s about pure excitement.
Short bursts of time at a high rate of speed, that’s an ADD trait. We’re good at the bursts. We’re like the bunnies, right? When you have ADD, you can move really fast.
Imagine if we would have said, “Hey, let’s do 12 Axioms over the next 12 months. We’ll have a year-long commitment, we’ll do one every single month and, boy, this is going to be great. This is one of our first projects together and we’re definitely in it for the long haul. Even though we’re not used to working with each other yet, and even though we're both ADD, that’s okay. I’m sure it will all work out just fine.”
Look how boring that is, and as you know boring isn't something people with ADD do well. We would probably have lost interest, if we had done it that way, by the third call. By the third month. Think about it, that’s 90 days of having to maintain excitement and interest on exactly the same thing!
So, if you have ADD, think short bursts. What can you do in a short burst at a high rate of speed? This gives you a deadline. We said we’re going to do 12 Axioms in 12 days. Pretty solid deadline. And all we did was use our natural ADD strengths to be able to do that.
We answered people’s questions that they wrote in on the different ADD Axioms. We’re really good at that. We came up with new ideas about how to work with ADD very, very, very rapidly. We’re took all of the previous ADD research, knowledge, and experience that we had compiled, between the two of us, and focused on short bursts of time.
If you have ADD, this is a great model to look at for anything that you’re doing. Whether you’re writing a book, preparing a speech, or working on a website—it doesn’t matter what you’re doing—if you focus on those short chunks of time and high, high, high energy, you can do some really, really interesting stuff. You can do some extremely interesting stuff.
If you have ADD and you’re trying to do something, like write a book, for example, isn’t a much more consistent effort to write your book by saying, “Okay, every day for the next 10 days, I’m going to sit down and write one chapter,” or “Every day for the next 10 days, I’m going to work on some piece of the book”? Let’s just say you broke it down into chapters.
Now wouldn’t that be just awesome because you know at the end of 10 days you’re going to be done? Isn’t that a lot better than saying, “Yeah, I have this nine-month contract and I have to figure out how to write this book. I don’t know when I’m going to get the time to do it. I guess I have to consistently sit down and write everyday whether I feel like it or not.” It’s never going to get done.
It really is a matter of not just breaking it down into small chunks, but breaking it into small chunks that can be covered, preferably, in an hour at most and really cranking something out. Different people have different attention spans for different types of things, but if you break it into small chunks that can be accomplished in an hour at the most, and then you give each one of those small chunks a mini deadline, you put the pressure on, you can start really, really getting things done.
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