In my last post I mentioned that I was thoroughly overjoyed and I could already see that our goal of Financial Freedom was in sight. Okay, maybe I was a little over-zealous. We were still talking about years of work ahead of us, but there’s something about working toward a goal like this that feels inspiring and exciting.

When I went into work, I felt like “this is just a job for me, my real passion is our home business”. I had a smile on my face and although I had way too much work sitting on my desk, I was a little bit happier, knowing we were doing something about our future. Working on something other than work, has actually improved my perception of work. Cool!

Unfortunately my day-job requires me to actually concentrate. My mind was busy thinking about ideas for building an online application, and my hands were busy jotting down those ideas (I have to write everything down since I seem to have inherited a horrible ability to remember things). So I was getting absolutely No work done. And every time I reminded myself that I needed to get some work stuff done, I would find myself drifting off thinking about the plans for Financial Freedom that Kate and I were working on.

How did I get past it? I didn’t. I spent the whole day struggling between thoughts of work and thoughts of obtaining Financial Freedom. And at the end of the day, I had accomplished virtually nothing on either subject.

I’ve had these type of OCD and ADD related problems all my life. I just refuse to get help from any professionals for my issues. I’m just not interested in taking drugs (which is what has been suggested in the past). Usually it works out okay, and I figure out how to just focus my attention on one topic and I really excel. But sometimes this happens.

So I have these issues, but I think everyone has issues, right? Some people get over emotional or are not very social or whatever. And they deal with it. Just like I’m dealing with this. I know the weird problems I have are all my own. I know that tomorrow I’ll be better and have all this sorted out.