Retiring with ADD

One thing that will make retirement interesting and challenging is my ADD.  According to all the experts in the field of ADD,  I really do need structure, organization, routines, and schedules.  Those things have always been anathema to me, and especially now that I'm retired.  Schedules and I have never gotten along.  I manage to keep them for a few days, maybe, and then I'm back to chaos.  Routines get boring, structure stifles my creativity, and I may never be organized according to the popular sense of  the word.  Yet, there is some method to the madness, or, as I've always thought, madness to my method.  Things do eventually get done, maybe not as quickly or as often as others would accomplish similar tasks, but eventually, the dishes are done, chaotic surroundings are a little more under control, and life moves on.  Yet, I know there is room for much improvement, and I have the time to experiment, so let's see what I can do.

Perhaps, I'll set up some routines that are totally off the wall, would make professional organizers and life coaches cringe and shake their heads in disbelief, but will work fine for me.  Maybe I'll invent some new way of doing things.  Maybe I'll even end up with some customized schedule that will actually work for me.  I have all the time in the world to do these things now, in retirement. 

Maybe, I'll just accept that I will never be good enough in the eyes of the experts in the world, but if I'm content, if I'm accomplishing things that are important to me, and valid for me, who cares what the experts think!