No Quick Fixes. Lasting and effective change and improvement come from moving beyond bolt-on programs to built-in processes. Many people are looking for what’s new in quick-fix improvement programs. But what works are fundamental improvement practices that become a habitual way of life.

– Jim Clemmer in the introduction to Pathways to Performance: A Guide to Transforming Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization

Clemmer was writing about businesses, not people. But there’s truth in there for executives learning how to work with their attention deficit disorder. The fixes don’t happen in one day. So we keep at it until they become habit.