ADHD + Haste = Disaster

WithAdult ADHD, when we are in a hurry, we blunder in glorious ways. If only there was a way to prevent that.I have a quickie tip for you today as I ’m blazing around my life like some earthbound comet.Last month, I was quickly packaging up an item I had sold on eBay. The item was secure. The box was sealed. All it needed was a shipping label.I don ’t sell a lot on eBay, but I’ve got a system I’ve developed over the years. After I pay for the postage online, I both print the label AND save it as a PDF. Redundancy is good for these sorts of things. When I went to fetch the printed label, I discovered that the UPC code was all smeared. Bac k to the Mac I went, but since I had closed the tab, I opened up the PDF and printed from there, this time at a higher DPI and clarity.The second printout looked great, so I clipped the shipping label out and prepared to tape it to my package. That ’s when I stopped myself.”Which PDF did I print?”You see, I had shipped another package out the day before. There were two shipping label PDFs on my Mac. I double-checked and just as I suspected, I had printed out the previous customer ’s address!Trust yourself, but don ’t trust your ADHDAlthough I have never mailed a package out to the wrong person, it is precisely because I am prone to careless mistakes like this that I double-check myself.We all can get careless when in a hurry whether we have ADHD or not. However, I ’ve noticed that when I am hurried, I tend to make careless...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Goodreads Source Type: blogs
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