A Fresh Start (rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In just one more month we're going to be coming up on the halfway point of 2021 — I know, I have no idea how it got here either.

But with this mark in time we're starting to see a shift going on - while COVID certainly isn't a thing of the past, the vaccine role out has opened up a lot of possibilities for what we want our future to look like.

At the end of 2020, I did some planning for 2021, but I knew that a lot of it was going to be uncertain so I didn't make too many specific plans. But now that I'm getting a better grasp of what the future might hold — although let's be honest, with ADHD we're always going to have a lot of uncertainty — I felt like it was time to go over those plans again and maybe give myself a fresh start.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about the fresh start effect, go over some stuff on planning, and how we can work on sticking to those plans.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Fresh starts can help us let go of our past performance and embrace our new self.
We can effectively create motivation with financial incentives, but often that isn't enough for us to follow through on some of the things that we really do want to do. We also need to create reminders and a plan on how we want to accomplish our goals.
Don't try and do all the new things at once - pace yourself and create a plan on what you want to do first. Try and focus on doing the things that by doing them will make everything else easier.
We need to be flexible with our plans because we are going to hit speed bumps - while we can't plan for everything we can work on ways to help us get back up when we get knocked down.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. In just one more month, we're going to be coming up on the halfway point of 2021. I know. I have no idea how it got
0:23.1	here either. But with this mark in time, we're starting to see a shift of how things are going on.
0:28.6	While COVID certainly isn't a thing of the past, the vaccine rollout has opened up a lot of
0:33.2	possibilities for what we want our futures to look like. At the end of 2020, I did some planning for
0:38.7	2021, but I knew that there was going to be a lot of uncertainty, so I didn't make too many
0:43.0	specific plans. But now that I'm getting a better grasp of what the future might hold,
0:47.6	although, to be honest, with ADHD, we're always going to have a lot of uncertainty,
0:51.8	I felt like it was time to go over those plans again
0:54.3	and maybe give myself a fresh start. In this episode, we're going to be talking about the
0:59.8	fresh start effect, go over some stuff on planning, and how we can work on sticking to those plans.
1:05.3	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash 76. But before we get started,
1:14.6	this episode is brought to you by the Skylight Frame. So many of us with ADHD need those
1:20.1	visual reminders of what's going on in our days. So if you're a visual person like I am,
1:24.9	then you'll love this new way to visually organize and
1:27.6	color code all your family's plans and to-dos. Skylight's smart family calendar is the upgrade
1:32.4	your family needs this school year. The Skylight calendar sinks all of the different digital
1:37.0	calendars and events your family uses and shows them all together on one beautiful touchscreen display.
1:42.7	And the new Chorchart feature shows organized lists of what each person needs to get done
1:46.6	so they can check them off and stay on top of household duties.
1:50.4	And because there are always more things to do around the house, one of the best features
1:54.1	of the Skylight calendar is that chore chart.
1:56.5	Kids get to enjoy checking off tasks and watching their progress bar update while learning
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