Feeling a little behind - on the Awakening, but made a start...

Just started the ADHD Awakening Assessment and already named something I've been blaming myself for. I have 22 notebooks full of ideas and a half-renovated house with the walls still out three years later. Turns out my brain isn't broken at the "doing" part. It's wired for legacy, not checklists.

Here's the reframe most people miss: when you said you get "lost in time" building something that will "last the distance," you revealed your brain's true fuel source - meaning, legacy, impact. The Microsoft to-do lists didn't fail because you're undisciplined. They failed because they were designed for a brain that finds satisfaction in ticking boxes, and yours finds satisfaction in building things people are still using five years later. You've been trying to run legacy-building software on a checklist operating system. Of course it crashed.

This is great, but still need to sort out the checklists for council consents, .... Definitely need to learn how to do Council Consent speak!!!

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