ADHD Hack – Think Outside The Box 🎁

Before Christmas, I was visiting a light show at a stately home with a friend and all our kids. This involved followed a path around the home and looking at all the beautiful lights 🤩

The kids were enjoying it until the to flow of people stopped. There was some sort of traffic jam up ahead. Of course, my very ADHD daughter started complaining about a stone in her shoe and her legs hurt. A wonderful night was turning sour 🍋

This went on for a few more minutes and by now there were several hundred people standing there, doing nothing. Like good Brits, we stood there queuing, just waiting for the traffic to start moving again, while the line just got longer and longer 🥱

So I went to the front to see what it was, stepping over the barrier and walking across the grass, ignoring the signs telling me not to. And what I found were people stopping to take selfies. Taking turns at the start of a particularly attractive tunnel of shining stars. One person had had the idea and now everybody was doing it.

But there wasn’t time for everyone to do this, and we didn’t want to stand around for hours. We wanted to see the rest of the show 😠

So I walked back to our group and I said four words. And then something amazing happened 😲

I said, “Come on, let’s go!”

And immediately, hundreds of people followed me, stepping over the barrier. I felt like the pied piper 🪈

At Autometrix, we don’t like standing around.

Don’t stand for inefficiency.

DON’T BE THE HERD.

PS We stopped to buy treats on the way home 🍬 I was proud to tell my wife how our ADHD daughter saved the night for hundreds of people 😁