Hey other special needs parents – curious how you balance the need to focus deeply on your kids’ specific issue(s), versus the need to scatter-shot it – and make incremental progress on a variety of fronts.

I skew toward the former but really lately, it’s not working.  My one more thing disease hits.  I awake with a highly focused agenda, usually work, and readily am diverted into just one more therapist email, preparation step so my kids can rehearse some micro-skill I’d like to accomplish, or readying health food like my cutting a pineapple so they’ll reach for fruit vs. an extra helping of cereal in order to keep weight gain at bay.

Then to hell it goes.  Focus is some fleeting objective allowed other people. I yet again scatter-shot myself across a vast number of domains work and personal.  Sure I get a ton of baby steps done toward important goals – which is actually a good thing – yet the intensity that I love and that’s required for quality thinking is gone baby, gone.

Yet in a Facebook era where fast, compact snippets of thought, writing and life really seems to have taken hold of most functions, be they work or personal.   Do we get more done this way?  Certainly seems to be the way many of us must progress. – Hmmm.