Avoiding Distraction

Ah yes, once again I (re)learn how I get into trouble when I undertake new things. I get excited about something… the energy builds… and then I get side-tracked by other interesting “shiny objects” which grab my attention, for however short or long a time.

This is an issue. I need to keep steady. I need to keep from getting distracted by every little thing.

Start something, stick with it till it’s done, and keep practicing along the way, so I don’t forget it when I come across something else that intrigues me.

This isn’t just an exercise in entertainment, it’s an essential skill I need to develop.

Enough casting about. I need to keep focused.

Onward.

Author: brokenbrilliant

I am a long-term multiple (mild) Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI or TBI) survivor who experienced assaults, falls, car accidents, sports-related injuries in the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. My last mild TBI was in 2004, but it was definitely the worst of the lot. I never received medical treatment for my injuries, some of which were sports injuries (and you have to get back in the game!), but I have been living very successfully with cognitive/behavioral (social, emotional, functional) symptoms and complications since I was a young kid. I’ve done it so well, in fact, that virtually nobody knows that I sustained those injuries… and the folks who do know, haven’t fully realized just how it’s impacted my life. It has impacted my life, however. In serious and debilitating ways. I’m coming out from behind the shields I’ve put up, in hopes of successfully addressing my own (invisible) challenges and helping others to see that sustaining a TBI is not the end of the world, and they can, in fact, live happy, fulfilled, productive lives in spite of it all.

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