If I could clone myself and everyone had one thing to focus on, that would definitely be too powerful, lol.
Oh my God, I'm dying. I was reading your post and I feel more than identified. I have not been medically diagnosed with ADHD, but with my behaviors I think I'm not far from going to the doctor and it will be written down in a medical report.
I like many things, I learn many things. I get excited after seeing each new thing I can do and learn more about everything. Then I leave it because I no longer find any sense in it and I feel "bored" so to speak and I find another activity. Honestly, it's exhausting, finishing or maintaining something is difficult. The only thing I really forced myself to do was finish my university degree. But haha, I don't practice my career. I learned about web design, I like to draw, I like to make clothes, I like creative stationery and everything that involves creating things with stationery. I have a lot of things at home, from each new learning and I keep putting them away, I lose track of the things I have because I am forgetful. So... The truth is that I have to make money with the things I have learned, it is the only way to help me see more positivity in my starts. Another thing is that I set goals, like saving up to buy "X" thing... or similar. That helps me. Cheer up with makeup, if something makes you happy, go for it!
Dude, exactly!!! It’s so easy to say to just enjoy your hobbies but if you don’t have any stable income and you NEED to earn from these “hobbies” then that’s where the problem comes from cos you can’t just abandon a business you’ve started and it’s going well and form another business and abandon it again. That’s where the guilt is coming from… not from having a lot of interests alone. It’s cos we need to make money out of them!! 😆 If I am privileged enough to do these “hobbies” and sustain that life forever that’s basically freedom but the world is not like that, or at least not mine atm. But how am I gonna do that if all I do is spend spend spend.
Honestly it’s so tiring to write something like this and someone with no ADHD comes and just think you’re just whining and advices you to “just do it”. I should’ve called it a business in the post from the start and not just interests to be more clear but yeah.. Better to write these things somewhere else where the audience would understand.
It's horrible. And I understand you, because it happens to me every time I change my "business." The truth is, it's not just the annoying economic problem, but also that guilt. I don't know if it happens to you, but it causes me feelings of "I'm not good at this," "I'm doing badly," "it's not my path," accompanied by a uselessness. Changing from one thing to another is not easy, because having an ideal audience through networks is achieved with time and perseverance. Something that does not characterize our ephemeral passions.
Sometimes I think what will happen to me when I get older... Because I don't know if it happens to you, because I love to overthink. People don't change, get healthy or whatever you can call it just by saying: "don't be like that..." Sometimes empathy is not always everyone's friend. And they don't see the gap where one sometimes feels.