You Gon' Finish That?!

This blog title is more than a question a fat kid ask his buddy about the Cheetos dust on his index finger.  It's the broken record playing in the mind of people with ADD. People like my myself and pretty much everyone in my family. Each one of us shows it in our way, but attention deficit disorder has us in its grips.

Personally, I start a lot of things and find it very hard to finish them. I have just learned to work around this by surrounding myself with finishers. People that may not be self-motivators or stronger starters but people that can carry a vision across the line.  I'm known more as the transition guy, a connection man, or an idea guy but rarely the finisher. For example, I sat down to write this blog and uploaded We Gon' Figure It Out videos to Youtube before I finished this very sentence.  It's nothing short of a miracle that I forced myself back to this tab to get going again.

I bring this up not to complain but more or less voice a legit concern I have about myself. I know I have a story to tell, I know I can be a great leader, and I know I have the talent to produce a product that can help others. But I lack the focus to follow through and complete the task. Now, it's not all doom and gloom. Like I said I know how to work this to my advantage.

I lead by example, and I'm usually the first one out the gate saying hey come on out guys this is how we will do it.  One of the best examples of this was the John 3:16 Running team I started. I had to be one of the first and sometimes only runners, so I ran. I ran hard; I ran long, and I never gave up on the vision. I wanted running to be the tool that would change the lives of many in homelessness and addiction.  I started it, and I connected it to others in the community, and they are finishing it so that it's ingrained in the culture of the mission.  So I get it I don't always need to be the finisher, but in one area I am determined to finish what I started.

ADD has always kept me from being a prize student. Teachers always said I was wise or knowledgeable, but none of it never translated into a scholar.  My potential never became potency in the area of formal education. I struggle to study, so much so I have to read a sentence multiple time just to comprehend it in proper context. My mind tends to drift mid thought, and I start thinking about something the first few words may have triggered. As a result, I need silence or a melancholy beat or the white noise from a window fan that soothes my other senses.

Which brings me to my main point, I want to be a better blogger, vlogger, and a much better photographer. But I need the focus to study and practice my craft.  So I'm writing this unflattering blog about my biggest weakness because I love to lead from transparency. I believe that we grow and mature the more we are willing to ask for help overcoming our shortcomings. I want to be a consistent source of inspiration for all that follow my journey. I love self-help books, but autobiographies have changed my life.
I love relating to someone's pain and being encouraged seeing what God has already done for them. It reminds me that He is the same God for me that He was for them so I too can overcome.

I guess this blog entry is my way of giving you some insight into why I haven't started blogging more consistently or even produced video at the right quality. I'm not going to make a grand declaration to do better, but each post I make will keep me in motion toward becoming the man I need to be.  I love you and thank you for stopping by We Gon' Figure It Out?!