Celebrating Your Wins (Rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

I want to start this episode off by saying that this is something I'm bad at - and not in the sense that what I do to celebrate is bad or that I'm not celebrating the small wins throughout my day. It's bad in the sense that I almost entirely skip the whole thing.

Recently this podcast tipped past half a million downloads. That's a pretty big milestone and is pretty indicative of how successful this endeavor has been. But it was barely a blip for me. I didn't want to acknowledge the success because it can be hard for me to acknowledge when I do things well.

So this episode is as much for me as it is for all of you and in this episode, we're going to be exploring what it means to have small wins and also how we can celebrate them.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Celebrating our wins is a way to boost our confidence and it will actively encourage us to seek out that same success again.
We can differentiate intrinsic and extrinsic motivation by thinking of intrinsic as what to do because it's interesting and inherently satisfying. Extrinsic motivation comes from rewards or from avoiding punishment. Both can be important parts of how we celebrate our success.
Start celebrating your wins by acknowledging when they happen and then letting yourself do something fun to celebrate that success.
Don't get down on yourself when the wins aren't coming - we're not always going to have smooth sailing, but only focusing on what didn't happen tends to make us overlook all the good things that did happen.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network. I'm your host,
0:09.4	William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices
0:15.4	to help you work with your ADHD brain. I want to start this episode off by saying that this is something I'm bad at,
0:23.9	and not in the sense that what I do to celebrate is bad,
0:27.4	or that I'm not celebrating the small wins throughout my day.
0:30.7	It's bad in the sense that I tend to try and just skip the whole thing entirely.
0:34.7	Recently, this podcast tipped past 2 million downloads. That's a pretty big
0:40.1	milestone and pretty indicative of how successful this endeavor has been. But it was barely a blit
0:45.5	for me. I didn't want to acknowledge the success because it can be hard for me to acknowledge when I do
0:50.6	things well. So this episode is as much for me as it is for all of you. And in this episode,
0:56.9	we're going to be exploring what it means to have small and big wins and also how we can celebrate
1:01.8	them. If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your
1:07.1	ADHD.com slash winning. But first, need help staying focused?
1:13.5	Adult study hall might be the answer for your wandering attention.
1:17.1	I've talked about the magic of body doubling and how it can do wonders for your
1:20.8	productivity.
1:21.8	If you want something structured and with dedicated work sessions for things like working
1:26.1	out, cleaning, and writing,
1:28.1	let me direct you to ADHD ReWired's Adult Study Hall,
1:32.0	which you can check out at Hacking Your ADHD.com slash study hall.
1:37.4	I use Adult Study Hall nearly every day to help keep me on task while I'm working on this podcast.
1:42.6	So you may see me there working on the next episode.
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