Get Ready for Spring with Seasonal Planning

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

One of the ideas that I’ve been playing with lately is how to go about my planning in a more natural way or perhaps a better phrase would be functional, because while I love the idea of planning it doesn’t always work out how I want to it to.

And to be clear, I don’t mean that my plans don’t work out, what I’ve been grappling with is that often when I do my planning I’ve failing to do it in a way that encompasses both my professional and personal life. I think this is an aspect of layering on my personal planning over my professional planning - but really I should be doing it the other way around. It makes more sense for me to build my planning around things like saying when my kids are in and out of school. It should be based on what’s going on in my life around me.

And so it dawned on me that one of the ways I could adjust this planning was to focus that planning that was seasonal - because with each season there are definite changes in how I go about my life. And so today we’re going to be exploring how we can look at planning with those seasonal changes in mind.

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This Episode’s Top Tips

When we’re writing out our plans we’re not creating some set-in-stone document that we can’t vire from - our plans should be malleable. It’s also important that we’re checking in with our plans as often as we need to so that we can stay on track.
By planning with the seasons in mind we’re thinking about the way our lives change with the seasons - are we going to be staying indoors or outdoors more? Are there seasonal events we want to keep in mind? What are the things you’re going to be looking forward to in those seasons?
Once you’ve figured out how you want your season to go you can break it down into what you want each month to look like and then take that information to plan out your coming days and weeks.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:09.1	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:12.4	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:19.1	One of the ideas that I've been playing with lately is how to go about my planning in a more
0:24.4	natural way, or perhaps a better phrase would be functional way.
0:29.4	Because while I love the idea of planning, it doesn't always work out how I want it to.
0:33.9	And to be clear here, I don't mean that my plans don't work out. What I've been grappling with is that often when I do my planning, I fail to do it in a way that encompasses both my professional and personal life.
0:46.1	I think this is an aspect of me layering my personal planning over the top of my professional planning.
0:51.8	But really, I should be doing it the other way around, I think.
0:54.8	It makes more sense for me to build my planning around things like, say, when my kids are in
1:00.0	and out of school. It should be based on what's going on in my life around me. And so it dawned on me
1:05.4	that one of the ways that I could adjust this planning was to focus on planning that was seasonal, because with each season,
1:12.9	there are definite changes in how I go about my life. And so today, we're going to be exploring
1:18.3	how we can look at planning with those seasonal changes in mind. If you'd like to follow along
1:23.1	on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash seasonal planning.
1:30.0	All right, keep on listening to find out what spring has in store for you.
1:39.9	Typically, the way that we want to go about planning is by breaking down that planning into
1:43.7	various layers. Starting with the high-level stuff, you have yearly planning, and I Typically, the way that we want to go about planning is by breaking down that planning into various
1:44.2	layers. Starting with the high-level stuff, you have yearly planning, and I say high-level here,
1:49.2	because what we're talking about is mostly goals and conceptual ideas. In yearly planning,
1:54.2	we're not breaking things down into the specifics that need to happen quite yet. From yearly
1:59.0	planning, we can then go into quarterly or monthly planning,
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