Freshening Up Your Goals

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

As we continue to think about our fresh start one clear area that we're going to hit is that of, well what should we even be focusing on. That's where goal setting comes into play and while I did touch on this in the original fresh start episode, I think it's worth giving more consideration.

When we think about goals there's a ton of different ways to think about them, but at their basics, a goal is simply a future result that you are directing your effort. Now there are a lot of different ways that we can go about setting those goals and we'll get into that more next week when I go through some of the various frameworks. But before we get into those frameworks it's important to understand how goals actually work and why we even want to set them.

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This Episode's Top Tips

There are 4 mechanisms we need to keep in mind when trying to complete our goals, those are focus, effort, persistence, and strategy.
We can think of goals fitting into three broad categories - outcome, performance, and process. Outcome and performance goals focus on things we can measure and process goals focus on the things that we do.
With an any benefit approach to our goals we're going to end up trying to focus on doing everything - instead, we need to prioritize those things that are most important and do them before we even think about those lower priority goals.

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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
0:14.9	practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. As we continue to think about our fresh start,
0:22.5	one clear area that we're going to hit is that of, well, what should we even be focusing on? That's where goal setting comes into play,
0:29.5	and while I did touch on this in the original fresh start episode, I think it's worth giving
0:34.0	more consideration. When we think about goals, there's a ton of different
0:38.3	ways to think about them. But at their basics, a goal is simply a future result that you are directing
0:44.6	your effort towards. Now, there are a lot of different ways that we can go about setting these
0:49.3	goals, and we'll get into that more next week when I go through some of the various goal frameworks.
1:00.0	But before we get into those frameworks, it's important to understand how goals actually work and why we even set them.
1:05.2	So today, we're going to be looking at those goals and some of the things we should think about when we're setting them.
1:13.4	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash fresh start goals.
1:18.5	All right, keep on listening to find out how you can score your own goal.
1:31.8	Let's start off with the question, why should we even bother setting goals? All of us at some point have written down those things in life that we really wanted to go after. And then while cleaning
1:37.3	out a backpack six months later, found that same scrunched up piece of paper buried under all our books
1:42.0	and gone, oh yeah, that.
1:47.5	Goal setting can often feel like an exercise in futility.
1:52.1	With some goals, I never seem to make progress, while there are other things that aren't really goals, but still seem to happen on their own.
1:55.0	Our issues often come with how we're setting and prioritizing these goals.
1:59.5	Plus, there's a whole issue of where I lie to myself
2:02.1	about how if it's important I'll remember it. Even with those big goals, we can still forget.
2:07.7	One of the lessons I've learned is if I want to set an effective goal, I need to be reminded of it.
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