I'm thrilled to be here. · ADHD Harmony™

I'm thrilled to be here.

About 10 days ago, a coach that works with neurodivergent entrepreneurs was being coached about Tiny Challenges. I have no idea what she said that made me think about it, but everything I've learned in the last 10 days about inattentive ADHD explains my whole life.

Here are the opening paragraphs of my Snapshot.

THE MIRROR

You said something that most people spend their whole lives never daring to admit: "I was getting scared I may, as the saying goes, die with my music inside me."

Here is what lives underneath those words. For 68 years you have carried two verdicts at the same time. One came from your father - "broken," "destined to fail at everything you ever do." The other was your own, quieter and more stubborn: I know I'm capable. I have something real in me. The fear of dying with your music inside isn't the fear that the music isn't there. It's the fear that you'll never get to prove it was real - to yourself, and to a man who is gone but whose voice still runs the audit in your head. You never stopped believing. That is the tragedy and the hope in the very same breath.

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