How to do Hard Things - Part 1

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

One of my favorite sayings from Brendan Mahan of the ADHD Essentials podcast is that ADHD is life on Hard Mode.

The executive dysfunction that comes with ADHD makes everything just a little bit more difficult. From doing the dishes to filling out tax returns we find ourselves needing to put in more effort than our neurotypical peers.

But what’s important for us to remember is that while these things can absolutely be harder for us to do, it doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

Today we’re going to be exploring this idea of doing hard things - what makes something difficult and how we can work on moving ourselves through that process.

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This Episode's Top Tips

It is important for us to define what we find being hard because when we choose to believe something should be easy we tend not to give it the attention that it deserves.
Our problems can’t be solved until we acknowledge them as problems - but also can’t solve those problems unless we put forward the effort of defining them and acknowledging the underlying issues.
Define what done looks like for a task and be sure to be mindful of how that can be functional in your life.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:10.0	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:13.5	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:20.0	One of my favorite sayings from Brendan
0:21.7	Mahan of the ADHD Essentials podcast is that ADHD is life on hard mode. The executive
0:28.5	dysfunction that comes with ADHD makes everything just a little bit more difficult.
0:33.8	From doing the dishes to filling out tax returns, we find ourselves needing to put more effort in than our neurotypical peers.
0:41.1	But what's important for us to remember is that while these things can absolutely be harder for us to do, it doesn't mean that it's impossible for us to do them.
0:50.7	Today, we're going to be exploring this idea of doing hard things.
0:54.8	What makes something difficult and how we can work on moving ourselves through that process.
1:00.4	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at Hacking Your ADHD.com slash hard things.
1:09.0	All right, keep on listening to find out what we can do to lighten the load.
1:17.7	There tend to be inherent rewards in doing hard things. This doesn't mean that anything hard
1:25.2	will always have a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,
1:33.4	but when we do things that other people aren't willing to do, we reap rewards that few others get to reap,
1:37.7	or at least rewards we ourselves would otherwise be unable to obtain.
1:41.2	Nonetheless, hard things tend to be hard.
1:44.9	But before we jump into this, I want to slow down here because definitions are important. When I'm talking about hard things specifically, what am I talking about?
1:52.3	I'll admit, my smart-ass side is applying me with some great answers. Like, diamonds are hard,
1:57.4	so is granite and quartz. Really most rocks, huh? But as I often have to tell
2:02.5	myself, that's not helping. Let's get back on track. We're talking about hard things, hard tasks,
2:08.3	hard choices, hard habits. Okay, I've said hard too many times here. Let's try go the other way.
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