I've been ADD for...well, forever. Anyway, I've learned how to cope by managing my routines as well as I can. I work in architecture, and my job involves a lot of tedious steps to put a project together. I manage to make this bearable by kind of having my "system" of doing things. We have used a fairly loose template over the past years, the end product is the same no matter what order things are done, basically. The general idea is that there are a lot of basic "pieces" of the project that we complete and then put together on paper. The order in which I do portions of projects probably isn't what most people would do...it's spastic, but it works for me and somehow makes sense of things. Well, recently our project template has changed, and everything is already kind of grouped together in what is supposedly a "logical" way to "streamline" our projects. However, I am having the hardest time adjusting! Has anybody else had this problem?

Normally, I can do a project very efficiently and quickly, so much so that I have too much extra time leftover sometimes. This go round, I'm just stuck. I can't even figure out how to get started b/c I can't do things the way I am used to. I don't know how to explain it other than...it's like now that all of the "pieces" of our projects are already arranged for me, I can't figure out what to do. I guess rather than being able to isolate one task at a time, I can see a lot at once...? Any insight on how to adapt? I'm currently falling behind in my project b/c I've spent so much time anxiously trying to figure out how to re-do my routine of how I work. It's a mess... Worst of all, I feel like a complete idiot for having trouble with the new "easier" way of doing things. I also can't go back to the old process because our template "pieces" are so often revised that the old will be outdated very soon.

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