Too busy to finish goals?

In the past, due to self-diagnosed ADD, I’ve taken on lots of projects at one time and worked hard on each of them for a short while. Inevitably I find myself overwhelmed at some point and losing interest in one or more of the projects and they fall into oblivion. How I’d rather things go is that projects fall away and my time frees up for new ones as old ones get COMPLETED. Here I’ll try to nail down what I am doing wrong.

1) Productivity in bursts rather than steady progress. I can spend a few weeks being really motivated on a new project and put in crazy amounts of hours working. But I always discover some time later that it’s been a week or 2 since I’ve done even one thing to bring the project closer to completion. To remedy this, I’ll try to keep a list of projects around which I can refer to during any free time which I have. This way my excitement for a new project won’t allow me to forget existing projects I have going on.

2) Trying to do everything myself. I have a bad habit of doing this. I’m sort of a perfectionist. And I don’t trust other people. This shows up ineverything I do, I fix my own cars and motorcycles, write my own software. This isn’t good, since modern society allows us to accomplish great things based on division of labor. I find myself constantly fighting this rather than embracing it. I’ll spend a whole weekend working on a project I could pay someone else to do. And that someone else can do it in much less time, so it actually costs less to have someone else do it. I’m not saving anything, especially not my time which is the only thing I can’t ever have any more of.

A better way to view the process is like this. If I CAN do everything myself, then I have a good mental view of the project beginning to end, and can coordinate all the pieces better than someone with less experience who CAN’T do everything. So I am more useful when I allow others to take care of specific aspects of a task while I oversee, rather than get caught up doing all of the tasks myself.