Prioritizing Your Needs For a Better Holiday Season
Hacking Your ADHD
William Curb
4.7 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
We all picture different things when we think about the holidays. Some people think about family and food, others think about putting up all those sparking lights and some people think about the shopping - but one thing we all probably think about is all the things we have to do.
Find the full show notes at HackingYourADHD.com/podcast/holiday
This Episode's Top Tips
- Pick and choose your events - let your mantra become "I'll have to check my calendar"
- Prioritize self-care by adding it to your calendar
- Have escape routes planned for events that might overwhelm you - identify your co-conspirators to get you out of the worst situations
- Your best weapon against impulsiveness is forethought - knowing when you are most impulsive let's you come up with strategies to curb that impulsiveness
- Be kind to yourself and cut yourself some slack
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. |
| 0:16.0 | On this podcast, I dig into the tools, strategies, and best practices that will help you work with your ADHD brain. |
| 0:23.3 | We all picture things differently when we think about the holidays. |
| 0:26.6 | Some people think about family and food. |
| 0:28.8 | Others think about putting up all those sparkling lights. |
| 0:31.3 | And some people think about all the sales and shopping. |
| 0:33.8 | But one thing we all probably think about is everything that we have to get done. |
| 0:38.8 | This week, I'm heading out to spend Thanksgiving with my brother's family, |
| 0:42.1 | and while I love the idea of getting together with family, |
| 0:44.5 | I also know that at some point I'm going to get pretty overwhelmed by it all. |
| 0:48.5 | I was joking with a friend of mine recently, |
| 0:50.5 | how unfortunately accurate it is that we have the phrase surviving the holidays. |
| 0:56.0 | There's a lot on everyone's plate this time of year, and you are going to find your |
| 0:59.4 | executive function being drained faster than normal because there's just so much going on. |
| 1:04.4 | I've got a short episode for you this week going over a few tips to help you combat all that |
| 1:09.3 | holiday fatigue. If you want to follow along with today's show |
| 1:12.6 | with our show notes, you can find them at Hacking Your ADHD.com slash podcast slash holidays. |
| 1:25.9 | Let's start off by talking about being mindful of what events we are choosing to do. You don't |
| 1:30.9 | have to do every event you're invited to. Make sure you are choosing the events that are most important |
| 1:35.5 | for you. One of the most useful tactics for this is when anyone invites you to anything, make sure |
| 1:40.5 | one of the first things that comes out of your mouth is, I'll have to check my calendar, |
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