Things can turn around quicker than you’re ready for

This week feels surreal to write because things have shifted and I don’t think I’ve fully caught up with it yet. It all started with a four leaf clover on a dog walk. Sounds ridiculous, I know. But when I was a kid I used to find them all the time and kept them in a photo album like little treasures. Somewhere along the way that stopped, well I grew up to be exact. Since finding that first one again I’m now on ten, plus one five leaf clover. I’m not saying they’re magic, but I am saying something changed. 

What it did was pull me out of that low level dread, that feeling where life is just happening to you, and once you’re in that it feeds itself. This week that shifted. I’ve had some genuinely exciting things happen, projects I can’t wait to share, and for the first time in a while I feel like I’m moving again instead of just managing. The Wellness Tavern plans are flowing, designs are coming together, ideas feel clear instead of chaotic. The only real difference is my mindset.

All I did was give my brain something simple, calm and slightly pointless to focus on, finding clovers. In doing that it created space I didn’t realise I needed. I say this all the time but I’ll say it again, you have to understand yourself before you can expect your business to work. We’re all wired differently but instead of figuring that out we compare, we copy, we label, and then wonder why nothing sticks.

I might ruffle feathers here. I’m not big on using labels as limitations. If you’ve got an ADHD diagnosis and it helps you understand yourself or access support, that’s valid. But if you’re using it as the reason you can’t move, can’t focus, can’t follow through, I’d question that. What if the very thing you’re calling a problem is actually your strength? The ideas, the pattern spotting, the energy, the constant switching. That’s not broken, that’s powerful. It just needs direction.

Give me someone with a hundred ideas over someone with none. I’ll take that energy every time and build something with it. You can always bring in support to finish things, that’s the easy part. So if your brain feels busy, scattered, full, good. Don’t shut it down, just find a way to focus it, even slightly. For me this week it was clovers. Simple, a bit odd, but it worked. Find your version of that, because sometimes the smallest shift in where you put your attention is the thing that changes everything.

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