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Many ADHD entrepreneurs have a skewed outlook on their own lives. In some cases, you’re a bit too optimistic with it, imagining it to be better than it really is, which works for a while but eventually needs a reality check.

On the other hand, there are those moments when you think everything is falling apart, when really things are more manageable than they feel. In both cases, this misunderstanding can get in the way of you finding balance in your life and business.

Being a bit too optimistic about the state of your life can sometimes lead to challenges down the road. When you think that everything’s fine, and you keep convincing yourself of that idea, opportunities for improvement get missed.

For example, if you were spending too much time on your business and not enough time with your kids at home, you might tell yourself that it’s necessary or that at least you’re building something for their future. You tell yourself that once you get this launch done, once you finish this course, once you hit that income goal, then you’ll have more time.

In reality, you might really want to see them more often, and could realistically spend a little less time refreshing your sales dashboard or tweaking that landing page for the fifteenth time.

When you can look past the “everything’s fine” story, you can make adjustments that feel better. The launch will still be there tomorrow. Your kids won’t stay this age forever.

This same concept applies to being too hard on yourself, as well. ADHD can amplify this because our brains sometimes like to focus on what’s not working.

If you believe that everything in your business needs to be completely overhauled, when really it just needs a few tweaks, you might make bigger changes than necessary.

You might redesign your entire funnel when all you needed was a better subject line. You might scrap your whole content calendar when really you just needed to batch-create on different days of the week.

When this happens, you might find yourself wishing you’d made smaller adjustments first. Those minor tweaks often work better than starting from scratch.

By being objective and honest with yourself, you’ll be able to get a clear outlook on what your life looks like, as well as what you’d like it to look like. This clarity is what will eventually guide you to a well-balanced life and sustainable business.

Knowing exactly what needs to be adjusted helps improve your work-life balance, but you need a clear perspective to see what would actually help.

Are you actually behind on everything, or did you just have one challenging week? Is your business struggling, or did you just have a slower month? Is your content schedule unrealistic, or does it need to match your actual energy patterns instead of the hustle culture version you think you should follow?

The truth usually sits somewhere in the middle. Your business has room for improvement, but it’s probably doing better than your ADHD brain tells you it is at 2am. Your life balance could be better, but you’re doing more right than you give yourself credit for.

Getting realistic about where you actually are makes it easier to make the adjustments that will genuinely help, instead of constantly reinventing everything every few months.

Have a great day!

~April

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