I was officially diagnosed with ADHD two years ago. Before that, I called myself a “Jill of most trades, master of one.”

Growing up, I was told I was lazy or lacked the drive to finish things. But I did finish projects—just not always the second or third one I’d started alongside them. Eventually, I became more consistent, only to run into another problem: the need to feel productive.

I would take on multiple challenges at once, trying to make the most efficient use of my time. It wasn’t unusual for me to have a language course running in the background while I played a game or wrote something. I wanted to accomplish more, but I’ll admit that splitting my attention watered down my progress.

Then there’s the fact that I’m very much a Virgo: always going back over my work, checking whether I missed something or screwed something up. If I found a mistake, I had to correct it before I could move on. Sometimes, I spent so much time checking my progress that I stopped making any.

I know I’m not the only one.

I also held myself back whenever I felt I didn’t have the right information or fully understand what I was doing. I carried a screenplay idea around in my head for two years, refusing to write it down until I learned the proper format. When I finally did, I put it together, formatting and all. But it never went anywhere because, as I’ll be the first to admit, it played like a Hallmark movie, and I wasn’t going to release something like that.

I bite off more than I can chew. I know a lot of shit, and I have the experience to back it up. Sometimes, though, I feel like a collection of valuable skills and ideas with no clear sense of what to do with them. It’s like owning a rare penny: I know it’s worth more than its face value, but I don’t know how to find the buyer who recognizes that. Meanwhile, it’s easy for everyone else to see just another cent.

I’m beginning to understand why a business can benefit from having two people at its core: a creative who needs room to explore and generate ideas, and an operator who knows how to turn those ideas into something ready for the market. Someone who can recognize the commercial potential and build the business around it.

For a long time, I thought I was more of the second person. Now, I’m coming to accept that I might be more of the first.

That doesn’t mean either person lacks the other’s abilities. Both need creativity and the ability to execute. But it’s like yin and yang: each has a little of the other within them, and their strengths complement one another.

Rather than banging my head against the wall and frustrating myself into oblivion, I think the best use of my time and skills is to focus on what I do well. I’ve spent enough time beating myself up over the parts I struggle with.

Can I figure it out myself? Of course.

Am I meant to do it all myself? No. I’ve learned that lesson the hard way.

So I’ll continue to build, create, and do what I believe I’m meant to do, while bringing in people whose expertise can help turn that work into a thriving business.