Tweaking Your Habits for Better Results

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Find the full show note at HackingYourADHD.com/habits

This week we're going to be exploring the power of habit and how small changes to our routines can have a big impact. One of the easiest ways we can help our ADHD is by working on routines and habits. It's easy to let our default habits run our lives but when we consciously choose what habits we actually want to cultivate we aren't hamstringing ourselves.

In this episode we'll be learning why we don't need to use discipline nearly as much as we think, the importance of sequencing in our habits and how we can make tweaks in those sequences so that we can change our habits to the ones we actually want.

Today's Top Tips

Don't rely on discipline, instead use your habits to help you navigate the hard stuff.
Our habits are so ingrained that we don't always realize what we're doing while we're doing them.
Our habits follow the path of least resistance - if you want to change a bad habit, add resistance. If you want to form a new habit, reduce the resistance to that habit.
You can automate processes in your habit sequences so that you aren't relying on discipline.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD ReWired Podcast Network.
0:09.9	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:13.9	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:20.4	Last week, we took a look at the book
0:22.0	The One Thing and how we can use the focusing question to help us figure out what our most
0:26.9	important tasks are right now. This week, we're going to be exploring the power of habit and how
0:32.3	small changes to our routines can have a big impact. One of the easiest ways we can help our ADHD is by working
0:38.9	on routines and habits. It's easy to let our default habits run our lives, but when we
0:43.9	consciously choose what habits we actually want to cultivate, we aren't hamstringing ourselves.
0:49.4	In this episode, we'll be learning why we don't need to use discipline nearly as much as we think, the importance
0:55.4	of sequencing in our habits, and how we can make tweaks in those sequences so that we can
1:00.4	change our habits to the ones we actually want.
1:03.4	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at Hacking Your ADHD.com
1:09.7	slash habits. Keep listening to find out how you can get the most out of your
1:14.4	habits. About 40% of our day is dictated by habits, with some studies showing that to be an even greater percentage.
1:30.5	We tend to think of ourselves as rational thinking creatures who always pick the best option.
1:35.9	Well, some of us might, but more often than not, we're not thinking that far ahead,
1:40.8	and we're simply picking what we've done before, if we're even picking at all.
1:44.9	Our habits are a collection of actions that we've done so often that they've become automatic.
1:50.4	When I go to put on my shoes, it's usually the right shoe that goes on first.
1:54.7	When I brush my teeth, I tend to start with the upper left side of my mouth.
1:58.6	I didn't consciously choose these habits, and I'm sure
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