If you live with an ADHD person, you know what I mean! Everywhere I go, read, listen, I’m hearing the same message: Get your life in order, set your priorities, say no and mean it; all so you can do what you want, spend time with your family. STOP! What if all I’m doing is spending time with my family? Arg! These messages we are force-fed non-stop, where is the OFF button?
Cue the podcasts, if it’s not encouraging, it’s off the list. Cue the email, ditto. I can’t decide which is worse. The emails that want to sell you this and that, you need this, don’t you? NO! Or is it the emails that want to pitch the latest solution to a problem you surely have. Culling unencouraging, unhelpful, mind numbing everywhere I find it, that’s where I am.
Whenever I figure out how to set an email up on my blog site I will endeavor to send emails with encouragement, maybe a laugh, maybe a helpful suggestion.
Back to my main point. I am finding my thoughts splintering into 5 thoughts. One day I ask my husband to try to number the thoughts he was thinking. He got to 12 and said, that’s what he could identify as not being a repeat. Well, I’m not there. But I am feeling the effects. What can we do to calm our minds?
Suggestions are freely offered. Take them if you can use them, leave them if you can’t.
+ Switch to listening to instrumental music, fewer words to distract.
+ Take up or go back to reading. I recommend a book in hand. Don’t we get enough screens in our day?
+Take a walk.
+ Sit outside.
+ Help someone.
+ This is a big one. A hard one too. Do one (1) thing at a time. It may take a lot of tries, but don’t give up. We can get there. And we will be in a better spot when we do.
+ Stand up and move forward. We all need to move more. You can find lots of useful information for adding movement to your day,
+ Visit the local library.
+ Play games – board, card, or puzzles with your family, your friends, your neighbor, or just by yourself. (My husband doesn’t like games)
+ Open windows this spring and refresh our lungs and the house.
Have I got you thinking? Pick one and start distancing yourself from the screens, and all the mind-numbing admonishments.
My month of life recalibration begins week 2 today. Stay tuned!