Creating Urgency

Try this if you struggle with procrastination

In middle school, I had to travel about 40 minutes to school every day. This was before cell phones and YouTube, so it was a grind, to say the least. To make the bus, I had to walk for about 10 minutes, which was not crazy at all. If I missed the bus, my Mom would have to drive me for 40-plus minutes, which wouldn’t be a pleasant ride.

When you struggle with ADHD, procrastination often comes with it. This procrastination can come from what’s called an impaired sense of time. Either you don’t realize how much time you have, you lose track of time, or you feel like time is passing you by. You think you have more time than you do, and eventually, time runs out before you finish what you want to.

Most people finish doing their taxes the weekends before they are due. They had about three months, in most cases, from the time that their W-2 came back. But still, they waited; why? They knew they had time. That knowing kills dreams. We procrastinate because we know we have time. But for some people, the worst thing you can tell them is, “Take your time.”

There are some people for whom I would give an earlier arrival time because they are always late.

Urgency is powerful. I haven’t always had this mindset, but once I employed it, it changed my…