The Before We Get Started

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Hey team,

I’ve recently been thinking about task initiation a lot, but while working on the first draft of this episode, I realized that there were a few ideas that were important to explore first.

So in this episode, we’re going to be exploring some ideas of executive dysfunction, but then we’re also going to be getting into stuff surrounding our mental and physical health and then how we can work on our systems that help keep everything in order.

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This Episode's Top Tips

We need to recognize and respect our physical and mental states - it crucial that we’re kind to ourselves and acknowledge that we’re not always going to be at 100%. We don’t always need to pushing ourselves and it’s important to we’re giving ourselves time to recover.
It’s important that when we’re build the systems in our lives that we look at making them simple and effective. We want them to be able to work even on our bad days and that means we need to lower the barrier to getting started on them.
One great way that we can implement systems with our ADHD is through checklists and creating designated places for things to go. Again our systems are there to help make our life simpler and streamline the things we need to get done.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast,
0:11.2	I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:17.2	Hey, team, I've recently been thinking about task initiation a lot, but while working on the first draft of this episode, I realized that there were a few ideas that were important for me to explore first.
0:28.1	So in this episode, we're going to be exploring some ideas of executive dysfunction, but then we're also going to be getting into stuff surrounding our mental and physical health, and then how we can work on systems that help keep everything in order. If you'd like to follow along on the show notes
0:41.4	page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash 145. All right, keep on listening to find out
0:49.1	what we should be looking at before we even get started.
1:03.0	When I need to do something, getting started is often not the first place I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about all the intricacies of what I need to do.
1:06.0	I'm thinking about what comes next.
1:08.0	I'm thinking about how things might fit together.
1:17.7	And in general, I'm not thinking about what that very first step is that's going to get me going on the doing of the thing.
1:23.8	Now, sometimes the excitement that comes from all that planning is enough to get me motivated into starting.
1:28.3	I may be thinking about writing an article and I just have to get the ideas down on paper as they keep spilling out of my head. Or I'm doing something new and I want to try
1:32.6	something out real quick and it's the spark that sets everything in motion. But more often
1:37.1	than not, starting can be a place of incredible friction. It can leave me frozen with a desire
1:41.9	to do something but unable to overcome the inertia of doing nothing.
1:46.2	And this can be so incredibly frustrating because I can see the road from B to C and then C to D.
1:52.3	But I'm left wondering, how do I even get to A and actually get the whole thing going?
1:56.6	So let's start off by acknowledging that getting started can be hard.
2:00.6	It doesn't matter that it often feels like it shouldn't be hard.
2:04.0	We're dealing with executive dysfunction here, and that can make it incredibly hard for us to
2:08.1	switch gears, even if it's something that we want to be doing.
2:11.2	I mean, yesterday, I had a bit of free time, and I thought it would be fun to jump onto
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