From Redundancy to Resilience to Recharge 💆‍♂️

In today’s post we will discuss:

• How I was made redundant

• How I quickly secured another role

• Burnout and how I combat it

Reflection:

It’s been a super busy, but productive.

I’ve been made redundant… I was given less than a months’ notice that my role will be coming to an end.

There was a restructure in my department at work, the company found a cheaper way of doing my job and there’s no need for me..

• There’s no redundancy pay because it’s a start-up company and

• I haven’t been here for that long.

I have kids to feed and bills to pay, albeit I’ve got emergency funds (which I don’t want to dip in to). I’m juggling meeting my day-to day deadlines on the job, while preparing handover notes, completing job applications and attending interviews, and my last day is in a week’s time… the mental pressure is a lot!...

 …But somehow my eyes light up to the challenge! This is the competitive nature in me, thanks to my ADHD! The gift.

I worked my magic; I managed to secure a new job and got the news on a Friday afternoon. I felt a lot of weight was lifted off my shoulders, jaded and for the most part of the Saturday, I just crashed out and rested.

I wanted to do something productive as I felt lazy about resting and doing nothing but my mind and body just wouldn’t let me get started. This is a constant theme I get when I achieve success or accomplish a goal after working on it for some time. My ADHD hangover after accomplishing a goal.

The ADHD Professionals emotional cycle:

It goes something like this…

• My eyes light up after each goal/challenge

• I work hard at the goal with learnings along the way;

• Then I either have:

  • Success or

  • Setback of the goal (Will talk about setbacks in a future post)

• Then I crash out

• Back in the hunt for another challenge

What I’ve learned from this cycle is that I should embrace the ‘crash out’ period by resting and recharging my batteries to avoid potential burn outs. At least for me anyway.

How I use this period is important as I’m prone to procrastinating more at this stage, which I’ve found myself doing on many occasions. I need something to light smoke up my a$$ and to keep me going.

My Solution: Goal setting

I’ve found that setting goals on a weekly basis and breaking them down into daily tasks gives me the spark I need to continue. As a result:

• I’ve always got something exciting to do or look forward to

• This helps mitigate the symptoms of procrastinating/ day dreaming etc

• Gives me an added sense of purpose “I can’t stop, won’t stop” attitude

In the next post I’ll talk about what I’ve learned working for a start-up company as a Neuro Diverse person.

The ADHD Professional

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