Katie McManus explains how ADHD business owners can get stuck in a pattern called "beavering," where they blame ADHD as an insurmountable obstacle and block their own success. Real challenges like executive dysfunction and rejection sensitivity dysphoria are valid, but the mindset itself becomes the barrier.
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If you're beavering your business, which is the term I just made up, what you tend to do is you tend to create this big energetic block that prevents clients from coming to you, that prevents money from coming to you, that prevents success in all its forms from coming to you. And how do we do this? A classic beavering move for the ADHD business owner is to constantly blame your ADHD and to make your ADHD this insurmountable obstacle that prevents you from doing what you want. And that's not to say that we don't have challenges. That's not to say that we don't have genuine things that pop up for us that makes life hard. Your executive dysfunction will prevent you from doing things in certain days. You don't have enough dopamine to actually get the to do list done. Your rejection sensitivity dysphoria will absolutely make it really scary for you to get on those first dozen sales calls because you're terrified of hearing no.