Your Future ADHD Self: An ADHD-Friendly Guide to Planning and Goal Setting

Exercise—Take a Hike! (Or a walk)

Superordinate goals, like intermediate goals, provide direction, but they also provide significant motivation by creating a discrepancy between who we are today and who we ultimately want to be.

Exercise—Meditation Using Fishbowl Visualization

Focusing on our intermediate goals provides clarity of where we should be spending our time.

Ensure that rewards align with your high time preference. 2.Keep goals within your time horizon.

You have an amazing brain. Learn from it. Leverage it. Work with it.

The ADHD person will most effectively set goals and create plans if they do so in ways that leverage the strengths of their ADHD brain and avoid its weaknesses.

I recommend doing it sometime between the end of your workday and before you go to bed.

After I took guitar lessons for several months, life happened. Things got busy with life and work—including writing this book—and I had to cancel a couple lessons. My progress on a particularly challenging solo I had been working on stalled and practice didn’t seem to be helping me progress. I had hit a plateau. Additionally, practicing just starte