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When you have ADD, your brain moves very quickly from one thing to another, and you're very creative. What you may not realize is that the more successful you are with your ideas, the more creative your brain becomes. You'll be thinking about whatever your passion is every second you're awake and things will just start coming to you at the speed of light.

You go! But you have to stop a second and see that millions of great ideas are worth zilch, if you're just letting them fly by or if you're going from one idea to another. ADD makes you distracted. But here's the thing... if you're constantly moving from one thing to the next and never getting anything accomplished, you're missing the boat.

This is it: You have to take just ONE of your great ADD ideas and work it through. It makes that idea a thousand times more powerful than any other idea you may have had or will have in the future.

When you take one idea and see it through, it may not be the best idea. It may not even be a good idea. But that's OK. After you follow through with it, you'll have learned everything about it. Because you took the hands-on approach and implemented your idea, the learning will be much stronger. It will become part of your ADD brain, and you'll be able to take that new knowledge and use it on something else in the future. You haven't really lost anything; you've gained a lot.

So, even if you have a super-sonic idea the day after you start working on the not-so-super-sonic idea, don't let the better idea distract you. Take notes and keep them somewhere, until you have time to go back to it. Or, better, try to figure out what makes the idea so strong. What elements of it can be used in the idea you're already working on? If you can inserting that powerful concept into the idea you're already working on, do you realize how much more powerful that idea will be?

Sometimes, it's hard to decide what makes an idea great. But don't worry about that. Let it sit. The idea may still be great, or maybe when you look at it later, you'll see that it wasn't as great as you once thought. No problem. You'll always have more great ADD ideas flooding your brain, and there's no magic, if you don't take action.

Don't let new ideas distract you. Use them to make your current project better, or store them for later. The whole key is in fulfilling one idea before skipping on to another. If you skip around, you'll never get anything done and the power of your ADD lies in completion. Use the ADD idea that you were given, follow it through, and you're bound to find success!