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

An explicit practice of rewriting our calendar and writing down tasks for the following day reinforces in our brains what our commitments are.

At the top of the goal hierarchy are superordinate goals.

The average was 66 days. And these are the numbers for people who succeeded in creating a habit. Most of the participants in their study were not able to create their habit at all.

Spending too much time cooped up inside is not good for people with ADHD. I find it interesting that our brain and body seem to know what to do when “cabin fever” strikes. Get outside.

Explicitly connecting tasks to higher-level goals can help motivate action. It creates a link to something we are, hopefully, passionate about. And passion is one of the things that can engage our interest-driven ADHD brains.

When a goal is far off, doing little things to pull it into the present moment can help motivate subgoals associated with it.

don’t feel like you have to do this on your own.

The higher my HRV trends, the better I seem to be able to focus, avoid distractions, and stay motivated.

Keeping expectations of effort levels and time frames realistic helps reduce frustration with not completing goals or not completing them in alignment with how much time and effort you thought it would take.