Does anyone medicate to help with motivation/focus?

[TylerH860]

Right now I don't take anything, but have struggled with focus and motivation pretty much all of my life. I BSed my way through college doing the bare minimum to get through. I procrastinate with very simple tasks, cleaning, laundry, bookwork until it becomes a monster. I retreat into fantasy or find any reason not to do something that needs to be done.

I've been able to suck it up and get things done to where my home is not trashed and my business is not a mess but I know I could do a lot better.

On the one hand, I know the main contributor is my spoiled upbringing. Everything was done for me up until I left the nest. After a shower, I would drop the towel on the floor and my mother would put a fresh one on the rack every day like a hotel.

There has never been a time in my life that I would have called myself organized. Even in grade school I couldn't I would get marked off for it. My backpack would get stuffed with wadded papers until it was unusable. That's when I would clean it out, make it nice, and the process would repeat.

I know alot of people, in college especially, that medicated themselves to focus and it helped tremendously. I always avoided it, thought my problem behavioral and not chemical, but with the new baby, the business growing, and a new house that I'd like to keep spotless, a lot more responsibility is being placed on my shoulders, and I'm struggling to change my attitude to accommodate.

Either I hire someone part time to help with the bookwork that I'm fully capable of accomplishing myself if I could fine the motivation, or I find a way to suck it up and do it which I never have found a way to effectively do. The alternative is to try some sort of medication to help me focus.

I'm curious if anyone has tried it or had any experience with it.