591- How to Accomplish Your 2026 Goals — One Day at a Time
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Caren Magill explains why ADHD brains get stuck in the cycle of big dreams → quick burnout → self-blame, and how to shift to identity-based goals you can actually reach and sustain through micro-steps, scaffolding, and other practical tools and supports.
ADHD and Goals: Resources
- Resource Center: A New Year Guide for ADHD Brains
- Download: January 2026 Calendar of Small Steps
- Read: How to Forge Stick-With-It-Habits
- Read: 40 Brilliant Neurodivergent Life Hacks
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine. |
| 0:13.7 | Here, everybody. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Annie Rogers, and on behalf of the Attitude team, I am delighted to welcome you to today's ADHD experts' |
| 0:23.0 | presentation titled How to Accomplish Your 2026 Goals One Day at a Time. |
| 0:30.8 | Leading today's presentation is Karen McGill. |
| 0:34.4 | Karen is an ADHD coach, entrepreneur, and YouTube creator who helps busy, ambitious |
| 0:40.7 | brains build the lives they love. Through her coaching content and practical tools, Karen blends |
| 0:47.8 | compassion with straight talk to make goal setting and productivity feel less overwhelming and more doable. |
| 0:56.3 | She's passionate about helping people replace shame and self-doubt with clarity, confidence, |
| 1:02.6 | and systems that actually fit who they are. |
| 1:06.8 | To introduce today's webinar, I'd actually like to share a few comments from you and the community members who gave us their words when they registered for this event. |
| 1:20.8 | One person wrote, my life has been riddled with plans and goals that just remain talking points with little follow-through. |
| 1:28.9 | My inner dialogue around these consistent failures is very poor. |
| 1:33.6 | It's hard to see myself ever getting on top after so many years of accomplishing little. |
| 1:40.7 | Someone else wrote, I have a tendency to go all or nothing. |
| 1:43.8 | I work tirelessly to stay on top of work, exercise, and social life for a week or two. |
| 1:49.8 | Then I slip up or burn myself out, and my executive functioning falls to nothing. |
| 1:54.9 | I want to stop the cycle. |
| 1:57.4 | And the third, I've always struggled with breaking down big long-term goals and dreams into short-term goals and things to do in the near future and bridging the gap between the two. |
| 2:07.6 | That area always seems so fuzzy and unclear to me. |
| 2:11.7 | If you see yourself in any of these quotes, you are in the right place. |
| 2:16.7 | In this webinar, Karen will explain a different way |
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