Every day, people have to make all kinds of decisions. For some people it comes easily, others are okay with it, and still others have a hard time with the simplest decision. You know, like people with A.D.D.
Adults with A.D.D. have symptoms like:
- Hyperfocus, tuning out the chaos by becoming totally absorbed in tasks,
- poor organizational skills (home, office, desk, or car is extremely messy and cluttered),
- tendency to procrastinate,
- trouble starting and finishing projects,
- low self-esteem and sense of insecurity, and
- sense of underachievement.
What do I work on today? Priorities, priorities! What needs done next? What will get me where I want to go faster? Which is more urgent, or more important?
What assignments should I give my outsourcers? Should I take time to train them to do something more?
Which tools are worth buying and which should I ignore? Some software helps me get more done. Sometimes deals come up that are a bargain, and sometimes they aren't.
Like just last night I listened to one seminar about marketing and how to make ads and split testing. At the end they talked about a new software that makes ads with 'plain' pictures, or animated .gifs or with flash. It's loaded with templates, and you just put in the text and change pictures if you want, and viola! In a few minutes you have a complete set of ads in all sizes accepted by the network. Instead of spending hours doing it, and an amateur result, you get quick, professional results.
I would have loved it, but $997 is out of my budget right now.
And then there was an offer for a complete course on learning how to use Camtasia, which is THE movie-making software used by most web publishers and marketers, PLUS a course to show you how to use movies in your marketing. The real sweet deal with all this was the fact for the first 24-hours it was available, you also got the $299 priced Camtasia... FREE.
Decisions, decisions.
And no one to talk to about those decisions.
Okay, that's not entirely true. I have one very good friend who listens to me talk about what I'm doing and what I need to be doing, even though she hasn't got a clue sometimes what in the world I'm talking about. But she 'listens' and that's priceless.
Another friend is also an onlline entrepreneur, but she is doing some different stuff, so we don't always mesh on what we're doing and why. But it's great to have someone who understands what you're talking about!
But neither can really help me on decisons about how much money to spend on what, or how much time to spend on what. Or tell what direction to go with my business, or any of the myriad decisions I need to make every day.
Nope, I'm on my own.
Some day my head will just explode, or maybe the voices will just tell me to do something really stupid.
Or maybe I'm just stupid already. Ah, it's just too much trouble to decide!
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