The Re-Entry Cost Tracker
Paired worksheet. The 19 Unfinished Projects: Why ADHD Founders Start Brilliantly and Stall
1Which project are you resurrecting?
Name one stalled project you actually want back, not the whole graveyard.
2Score the cost of re-entering it (1 to 5 each): physical energy, number of decisions, cognitive load, emotional weight of the pile.
The highest score is the wall. That is the cost you have to lower, not your willpower.
3What is the capacity you actually have for this today, honestly?
If the cost is higher than the capacity, the wall was always going to fire. That is math, not failure.
4What is the warm re-entry note you can leave so future-you starts from a step and not a cliff?
Write the literal next sentence, or ‘next: record video three, script is in the doc.’
5What is the smallest version of done that is still real?
Not the perfect course. The five-email mini version. Shrink the finish line until you can reach it this week.
Your next moves
- Pick one project off the pile and write it at the top of the page.
- Score the four cost components and circle the highest one, your activation wall.
- Match that highest cost to its fix: lower it (smaller step, warm note, changed environment) or borrow capacity (body double with a real human).
- Leave a warm re-entry note before you stop working, every single time.
- Open your idea parking lot and drop every shiny new idea there instead of starting it, with a one-week cooling-off rule.
What surfaced for you?
When you look at the highest cost holding your wall up, is it a cost you can lower on your own, or one you have been trying to carry alone when you could borrow capacity from someone else?
You are not lazy. You are not broken. You were handed the fuel for starting and never taught to make the fuel for finishing. The wall is real cost-versus-capacity math, and once you can see it, you stop trying to scale it and start finding the door.