One of the misconcepts about Attention Deficit Disorder is that suffers can't focus--that's not really the case. The real problem for ADD suffers is that they have trouble making transitions--from one physical environment to the other, or from one project to the other.
I used to beat myself up on a daily basis for this--I'd try to block out time in a regimented fashion during the day for each area of my life. It was always a miserable failure...
What I do now isn't possible for everyone--I'm self employed, live alone with my two dogs, and am pretty much able to set my own schedule--but I just *quit* making transitions to the greatest degree possible. My redesigned website is a good example--I used to try to block in a couple of hours of work a day on the website and never got anywhere with it. So for the past 10 days I've pretty much just worked on that fulltime. I'll work until I get sleepy, sleep for awhile and get up and do it again. It's obviously not the pathway to a balanced life, but I've made more progress on my website redesigned during the past 10 days that I did in the previous two years.
In any case, you're definitely not alone in your difficulty with "transitions" and developing the mental discipline to make smooth "shifts" is a pretty impressive accomplishment on your part!
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