EP. 104: Goal Setting and Planning for ADHD

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Tracy Otsuka welcomes you to Episode 104 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she talks about goal setting, planners and planning, the perfect subject for the last podcast of 2020. Tracy talks about Why goals and planning can be hard for our ADHD brains The truth about multi-tasking Other episodes of this podcast that might be helpful when it comes to time and planning and ADHD. Why ADHD brains may need to externalize time What it means to have a short time horizon What time is actually linked to What it means to develop an awareness around time and how that can help you Why focusing on the actions rather than the goal might work better for you How to choose the right goal Why looking inside yourself rather than outside of yourself works better for us in choosing a goal Why knowing your values and what’s important to you helps makes goal setting so much easier Why having goals is even important The thing that most of us with ADHD share in common When a practice of gratitude may make goal setting easier Creative themes/mottos to help you reach goals and generate positive emotion What to look for in a planner for the ADHD brain Her A-OK! Brain Download and how she uses it to get everything out of her brain Her Goal Decode process that allows her to break down her goals into much smaller tasks Why Saturday morning planning sessions are the best thing that Tracy does If you’re procrastinating what the problem may be

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0:00.0	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
0:14.8	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of vocations.
0:20.7	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or had ADHD?
0:25.0	And you know what we hear even less about?
0:29.0	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Aaron Brokovich, Share. Yeah, the successful women. and that's exactly why I started this ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm your host Tracy Otsuka. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.
0:59.7	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is A-O-K, a system that helps people like you figure out
1:07.4	what they should do with their life.
1:09.7	And we're here today to talk ADHD. your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how you proudly
1:16.7	stand out instead of trying to fit in.
1:20.0	I credit my ADHD for some of my greatest gifts and you know what? I spy a happier life for you too.
1:29.0	So without further ado, a shiny new episode is starting now.
1:39.0	Hello, I am Tracy Otsuka.
1:42.0	Welcome to episode 104 of ADHD for smart-ass women. Today I am going to talk
1:50.8	about goal setting, planners, and planning.
1:53.9	And I thought this was the perfect subject,
1:56.6	given that this is our last podcast of 2020.
2:00.9	But first, I would love to start out with a podcast review.
2:07.0	And this one is from I. G.C.
2:11.0	G. H.
2:12.0	And it's titled, It All Makes Sense Now. Thank you so much for your
2:18.7	podcast. Earlier this year, by way of reading a novel, I got the inkling that I may have ADHD.
2:25.6	I started doing a little research and I identify with most, if not all, of the symptoms.
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