A New Direction for The ADD Business Owner Blog

Wow. I just took a look at the home page of this blog, and found that it's been dormant for over a year. I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad!

This blog, The ADD Business Owner, was originally intended to reach out to adults with ADD who are business owners. My goal was to offer tips and advice for managing a business and being successful while also managing adult ADD.

Somewhere along the line, however, I lost my passion for this blog. There were other things going on in my personal life that left me with less time in my own business, too, and even my main blog, Experiencing ADDvantages, suffered. I just stopped writing.

But in the past month or so, I've been itching to write about business again, and I've been trying to figure out exactly how to revive this blog. One day, quite randomly, I realized that the name "The ADD Business Owner" is not really about the ADDers out there who own a business. It's about me. Epiphany: I am The ADD Business Owner.

Now that doesn't mean that this blog isn't for ADDers with businesses, because it is. And I hope that it will also be utilized by non-ADDers, as well, and that it will inspire them to break a few rules and embrace their maverick nature. After all, this is the underlying message in just about everything I do.

It's been said that if you compare the "symptoms" of adult Attention Deficit Disorder with the traits of successful entrepreneurs, you'll find two lists that overlap greatly. By nature, we're all creative, driven, strategic, problem solvers, and big-picture thinkers who also tend to be disorganized, forgetful, inconsistent with our attention and focus, and poor managers of time. So those amazing business owners who don't actually have ADD often times act like they do.

And many of the rule breakers and game changers in business have actually been ADDers. David Neeleman of Jet Blue invented the e-ticket. (Leave it to an ADDer to find a way to get around forgetting your plane tickets.) Paul Orfalea built the Kinko's empire on "common goals and trust." These are just two examples of ADD mavericks who shook up the world through their businesses; there are many more out there.

So, beginning with my next post, things will be different here at The ADD Business Owner. I have a lot to say, and I hope that I can inspire you to embrace your inner maverick and shake up your own business.

Comments

[Kenyob]

I am looking forward to more posts on this. Its funny how overlapping the traits of people with ADD and Entrepreneurs are and I would consider myself an ADD business owner too.

[Sandra De Freitas]

Yeah Jen! Congrats on resuscitating this blog. I'm looking forward to hearing more and signed up for the RSS.