Hey Sammy @Sammy Boyster (and anyone else building out their music list), I promised you a song, and since a few of us are loving music with messages that really land, here's one for the collection. Loved what @Jim Ebbelaar Sage and @Marion Steed created together, so clever, what a brave and beautiful thing to share your gorgeous voice with all of us like that - what a wonderful gift you have. 🎤✨ That reminded me how much lyrics can carry us through the hard bits. This one has been on repeat for me. The words just spoke straight to where I am right now. I'm sharing two versions: 🎵 Miley Cyrus - The Climb: https://open.spotify.com/track/5x5JM1BSB6vollcIzDocqT?si=b2b4289d56d4417d 🎵 Stan Walker - The Climb: https://open.spotify.com/track/24xSzXhbnJPrT5PE6SAtYM?si=bed16a8666704bdf (our home grown taelnt from Aotearoa - NZ - gives me the chills everytime ) This one found me at exactly the right moment. Big health reset, a career pivot that absolutely rocked my ego and identity after extended burnout and the daily climb back to myself. These lyrics just landed: So when I hear these lyrics, they stop being a pop song and start being a map: "There's always gonna be another mountain I'm always gonna wanna make it move Always gonna be an uphill battle Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose Ain't about how fast I get there Ain't about what's waiting on the other side It's the climb." And this bit, for those days when the ADHD brain tells you you'll never get there: "I can almost see it, that dream I'm dreaming But there's a voice inside my head saying You'll never reach it..." The mountain isn't the problem. It's just the terrain. And the hard moments aren't the things to push past - they're the ones we'll remember most.

Has anyone had the problem where you feel more productive late at night than you do during the day? I've been like this for a few weeks and I have to stop myself from working and force myself to go to bed. I listen to some meditation to help me fall asleep which works a treat but the cycle repeats the next day. Could my circadian rhythm be out of sync? How do I overcome it? Has anyone got any tips that they could share with me as it's getting ridiculous. During the day my mind is blank and I hit a brick wall constantly with work. I can't even remember how to do things - things I've done for years on end. All ideas welcome - thanks in advance ADHDers!

I had a revelation today. I have a serious time blindness that makes me underestimate the time that everything on my todo will take. So it’s always at least half or 3 times more than what I need. So I overcommit! And then I have these moments where I can’t proceed and I loose so much time. As today. And the TERRIBLE thnig is that I thought my day was over. It was 2:30pm. But I named the emotion “overwhelm to not be able to deliver, again!” And ask sage my protocol. She send me to walk 15’ barefoot if possible, have water on my face/wrist and then decide on a task to work on for 20’. Well the task took 60 minutes (but I added some stuff as Sage corrected me) and I kept going until I finish the whole thing. I had time to prep tomorrow visit, went to my CrossFit class and came back and prepared by bag for tomorrow! Shower and now dinner prepared by my beautiful son. It’s ready and it smells amazing. It’s 8pm in NZ. 5:30 hours well used and not wasted! Thank you!!!

This is my check in for the day, I wasn't going to post. I am because I need insight on approaching the inevitable conversation with my son. Yeah i know I said I would brain dump at night, but my heart is heavy and I don't know what to do. Arron got in a scuffle last night at the bar and the other guy punched Aaron in the face. So, I guess Sarah wanted him to go file or maybe Aaron wanted to file a police report and have the guy arrested. But Aaron has a bench warrant for an unpaid parking ticket. Which is why he never got his car fixed; he didn't want the cameras catching his plate. He says he never told us because all we would do it say how disappointed we are and that we never say how proud we are of him. My heart just fell out of my chest down to the floor and got stomped on. I am not sure what to say because what he said is not entirely true. He got arrested before and we dealt with it. We were disappointed that he felt he could not come to us. Although the things he does are foolish and reckless. Anyway, i don't know how to approach because i do not want to stand there and defend myself. Maybe not as often as I should, but I do say I am proud and appreciate the work he has done. I always ask please and say thank you. If I did not appreciate him, I would not be saying that. My dad never said please and thank you, it was 'do...'. This goes back to the conversation Avi and I had yesterday. I got it then and more so now.

Just saying... Psychology says men without close friends usually aren't socially incompetent — they were raised in a culture that taught them vulnerability with other men was weakness, and by the time they realize the cost, everyone's already scattered – VegOut https://share.google/v0AGStSAzxbq6vw1r