How to Plan Your 2020 Without Getting Overwhelmed

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Be sure to check out the full show notes at: HackingYourADHD.com/planning2020

Today we're going to be working on planning out our 2020. If you haven't given much thought to planning your year before I think you'll get a lot out of this episode - planning is one of those things that we sometimes think doesn't play well with ADHD, but I've learned that planning is actually one of the most effective ways to manage my ADHD. We're always going to be impulsive and that's not a bad thing but sometimes we want to want to rein that in and our best chance at reining in impulsivity is forethought.

In our session today we're going to be going over how to set goals without making them too challenging, figuring out where our focus is going to be next year, updating our calendars with the most important stuff first (you might be surprised with what that is) and then going over why we want to be doing our most important goals first.

This Episode’s Top Tips

Find your Goldilocks Zone of Challenge for Goal Setting
Examine your life domains and choose one to focus on this year
Re-write your goals from outcome based goals into process goals
Once you have set dates scheduled into your calendar, schedule out your vacation and planning time before anything else
Plan to do your 2-3 most important goals in the beginning of the year

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:10.0	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:13.8	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your
0:19.2	ADHD brain. Today we're going to be working on planning out our 2020.
0:23.6	If you haven't given much thought to planning your year before,
0:25.6	I think you'll get a lot out of this episode.
0:27.6	Planning is one of those things that we sometimes think doesn't play well with ADHD.
0:32.6	But I've learned that planning is actually one of the most effective ways to manage my ADHD. We're always going to be impulsive, and that's not a bad thing, but sometimes we want to rain that in,
0:42.3	and our best chance at reining in impulsivity is forethought.
0:46.3	In today's session, we're going to be going over how to set goals without making them too challenging,
0:51.3	figuring out where our focus is going to be next year,
0:59.3	updating our calendars with the most important stuff first, and you might be surprised with what that is, and then going over why we want to be doing our most important goals first.
1:04.1	I'm really proud of this episode, and I'd really love it if you shared it with someone
1:07.5	that could also use some help planning their year. Just take a second and click that share button on your podcast player. If you'd like to follow along with today's show
1:15.2	on our show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash planning 2020.
1:22.9	All right then, let's mozy.
1:37.3	As we jump into planning 2020, there are a number of things that we want to keep in mind.
1:40.7	Foremost being that what we are creating here is just a guide.
1:44.7	There is no way that we could sit down and plan out every day until the end of the year and have it really be meaningful. Every Friday, I try to spend some time planning out my next
1:50.3	week, and even in that single week period, it can be tricky to accurately plan. I know for a long time
1:56.5	I felt like planning my year was a waste of my time because I knew that the winds would shift
2:01.0	and anything I had written down wouldn't matter anymore. Except what I didn't realize was that my
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