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Maybe you have a similar experience while writing books…

I get 30-50 pages into writing a book when it happens. Inevitably there is a break of a couple days as I take care of other projects. When I return I don’t remember exactly what I wrote anymore. The big picture is lost to my frayed ADD mind.

Frustration drives me to print everything out and put it on the walls in front of me so I can see it all at the same time. I can’t see it, it’s not big enough.

I’m annoyed to no end by not seeing the complete story as I add to it. I want to be able to see it all and make references to things I said earlier without searching for minutes at a time. I want to know everything I wrote intimately – and since that’s impossible after 50 pages or so, I want to see it in front of me – in total. The computer screen is so limited – it gives me about 16 lines. I like to see big words so I’m at 14pt Courier New. Huge right? Not for me, it’s just right.

My brain is like a sieve. If I’m focused on a project for a day, a couple of days, I can retain a lot of information about what I just did. Focus or not, after 4-5 days memory starts dissolving.

Not just that.

My brain starts banging out new ideas. Not ideas that go along with the original, but on tangents. One or two tangents become more important than the original. The original project dies and the new tangential projects take off for about 50 pages, 5 days – whatever comes first – and fades away too, just like the original idea.

Such is the suck of an ADD/ADHD mind. To say it’s a disability is a vast understatement for anyone that needs to hold a focus for more than a couple minutes, hours, or days.

Kicking ass and GSD (getting shit done) is an achievement for long projects.

Are you the same?

I’m 50 pages into… “Kicking Life’s Ass!“. I’m at that point where I need to find 5 days of silence and kick this book’s ass real solid.

I had a cool experience the other day and made a short video about it.

Some of you know I’m writing the next installment in the Kicking _____’s Ass! series called, “Kicking Life’s Ass!“. I’m 60 something pages into it and have the outline figured out. But then seeing these dogs today made me realize that animals kicking life’s ass deserves a chapter too. A mention, anyway.

These Dogs are Kicking Life’s Ass –

You have any stories about animals kicking life’s ass?

I made the final edits to this book – Kicking Smoking’s Ass! and just finished the audio capture. I’ll have both up online here today – probably a few hours from now.

Kicking Smoking’s Ass! is a motivational stop smoking book that I think has a lot of potential. What remains to be seen is how it affects smokers and whether it motivates them to quit or not. It’s quite tough in book format. I hope the audio file works better – or in combination with each other, to help smokers quit.

I got really excited about my next book – Kicking Life’s Ass! I started on an outline for it last night. This might well be the best book I’ve done. The idea is very nice… just have to flesh it out. I have the domain name already so don’t even try it!