Katie McManus explains why people with ADHD struggle to start businesses. Waiting to feel ready is the trap. Early sales calls and content creation feel uncomfortable at first, but rejection sensitivity and ADHD dysphoria make avoidance harder to break.
First dozen sales calls you do for your business, you're not going to feel ready for. But at some point after you've done it a dozen times or a couple dozen times, it's going to be the easiest thing in the world. Learning to create content to promote your business, that's going to be really scary and uncomfortable. And you're not going to feel ready to do it until you've done it for two months straight and it's part of your routine and you kind of understand what works and what doesn't work. Waiting to feel ready is one of the biggest bull reasons to not start now, and I'm calling you out for it. For those of us with adhd, you know, we have rejection, sensitivity, dysphoria, which means that when we're thinking about doing something outside our comfort zone, we start making up all these stories. We start imagining a future where people reject us and it hurts, where they turn us down, where they think what we're doing is stupid, or they say, no, I don't want to buy your thing and you should, you should quit and do something else, because this is really dumb.