Best-Laid Plans and COVID-19

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Trying to plan in a pandemic has been... well really what's been a problem is all the plans that I made before the lockdown. Every week I look through my calendar and have canceled events and plans that just aren't going to happen. I mean this was the first Easter I didn't have to pretend to be sick during to avoid going over to the in-laws, but that's a pretty weak silver lining.

We've got a lot going on so planning is more important than ever - I mean going to the grocery store takes a lot more forethought than it used to. But planning also seems harder than ever before as well, so today we're going to be looking at what to do when plans go awry and how to adjust our long-term planning.

Find the show note for this episode at HackingYourADHD.com/BestLaidPlans

This Episode's Top Tips

No one really wanted to hear me read poetry.
When our plans go wrong it can be frustrating and debilitating. We can mitigate some of this by thinking through what can go wrong with our plans and coming up with contingencies.
Right now a lot of our long-term plans are disarray - while it is hard to plan for the future because when we are faced with uncertainty, we can still look at our underlying goals and base our planning around them.
Give yourself a break - it's okay to do less. While it is still a good idea to plan our days, we can also just plan on doing less.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:08.8	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:13.0	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with
0:17.9	your ADHD brain.
0:20.2	Trying to plan in a pandemic has been,
0:22.2	well, really what's been the problem is all the plans that I made before the lockdown.
0:26.3	Every week I look through my calendar and I have cancelled events and plans that just aren't
0:30.1	going to happen.
0:31.1	I mean, this was the first Easter that I didn't have to make up an excuse not to go over
0:34.9	to the in-laws, but that's a pretty weak silver lining. We've got a lot going on right now, so planning is more important than ever.
0:42.0	Going to the grocery store takes a lot more forethought than it used to. But planning also seems
0:46.7	harder than ever now, so today we're going to be looking at what to do when plans go awry
0:51.4	and how to adjust our long-term planning. If you'd like to follow
0:55.1	along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash best laid plans.
1:02.7	All right, keep on listening to hear some poetry.
1:15.9	I imagine a lot of you have heard the adage,
1:19.2	The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
1:24.9	It's common enough parlance, but I realized I had no idea where it could come from, so I decided to go looking. One quick Google later, and I found the poem to a mouse on
1:28.4	turning her up in her nest with the plow, November, 1785 by Robert Burns. That's quite the
1:35.4	descriptive title there, and I'd like to share that poem with you now. It was originally written
1:39.9	in the Scots language, so I'll be reading from a translation. If poetry isn't your thing,
1:44.5	feel free to skip the next minute or so to get to the main part of the show.
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