i read the bullet journal by ryder carrol and got really excited about trying this journaling thing out and so i spent days finding the right journal and pens on amazon to get started -- because dammit it wont work if i dont have the perfect pens anyway having secured my pentel energeltm needle tips -- and they must be needle tips -- i was gung-ho about getting started i stuck to journaling for a few months before realizing that the only thing journaling helped me with was umm journaling   i see this problem as a form of analysis paralysis i spend more time preparing to do stuff than actually doing stuff the preparation is satisfying because it feels like im doing something productive even if i havent actually gotten to the doing part i can spend hours cleaning up the directories on my desktop installing and updating software i might need repeating analyses 100 times using 10 different methods    ive read the books on adhd and i know what the problem is but instead of doing the thing i need to do i read another adhd book thinking that the next one will contain the magic formula that wasnt in the 10 previous books but they all basically say the same thing and they all regurgitate the same studies and anecdotes ive become an expert on adhd but i still cant get myself to do anything about it