Personal Narrative: My Homework For School

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If there was one problem I would solve, it wouldn’t deal with the government, my peers, or my school, but rather with myself. I have a problem with getting the proper motivation to start on any project or task, as my mind runs off and I can’t seem to slow time down to be able to focus. For instance, just to find out what topic I wanted to chose for this essay, it took me well over forty five minutes to decided, and well over an hour to finish proof reading it. My problem is my mind always seems to run off whenever I try to do anything at all. Homework for school is a joke unless I take my prescription adderall. Although that helps, it starts to wind down around afternoon, and then I feel like doing a task less then I did before. Besides

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