How to Get Refocused After Your Vacation

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Last week was all about getting there and this week we're focusing on what to do when you get back. Travel disrupts our routines and habits - and we should take those disruptions seriously. One thing that I've had to learn over and over again is that ADHD makes transitions hard - and coming back from a trip is a big transition.

This Episode's Top Tips

Identify your routines and habits before your trip so that when you get back you know where to pick things back up. Make sure you are paying special attention to your
While you are traveling try and keep up as many of your habits and routines. If you need to, you can make small tweaks to them to make them easier while you are away.
Make sure you are planning your days and regularly checking that plan once you get back. You can use a habit tracker to make sure you are follow through with all of your intentions.

Find all the show notes at HackingYourADHD.com/podcast/RefocusedVacation

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:09.5	I'm your host, William Kerb, and on Hacking Your ADHD, I dig into the tools,
0:14.3	strategies, and best practices that will help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:19.1	By the time this episode goes up, I'll have just gotten back from
0:22.0	this year's International Conference on ADHD in Philadelphia. As we discussed last week,
0:27.3	travel is hard, but you know what else is hard? Coming back from a trip. I know I usually like
0:32.0	to have a couple of days to decompress after a long trip, but I usually don't have that kind of
0:36.4	time.
0:41.6	Life kept on going while I was away, and it can feel like I have to play catch-up once I get home. One of the trickiest parts can be keeping up your routines and habits after your trip,
0:46.6	so this week we're going to focus on how to get back into the groove of things for an easier
0:50.5	transition home. If you want to follow along with the show notes, go to hacking
0:54.6	your ADHD.com slash podcast slash refocused vacation. Last week was all about getting there,
1:09.7	and this week we're focusing on what to do when you get back.
1:12.7	Travel disrupts our routines and habits, and we should take those disruptions seriously.
1:16.8	One thing that I've had to learn over and over again is that ADHD makes transitions hard,
1:22.1	and coming back from a trip is a big transition. But the good news is that we can make those
1:26.7	transitions easier if we plan
1:28.4	ahead for them. Our first step here is taking stock of what our routines and habits look like
1:32.8	right now, before our trip. And if you're already on your trip, let's just try and think back
1:37.7	to what was working then. So what does our evening routine look like? How about our morning
1:42.2	routine? Have you been keeping up any good
1:44.1	habits? If you've been following along since the first episode, you'll remember the concept
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