How to Set Your Goals for the New Year

Be sure to check out the full show notes at: HackingYourADHD.com/planning2020 Today we're going to be working on planning out our 2020. If you haven't given much thought to planning your year before I think you'll get a lot out of this episode - planning is one of those things that we sometimes think doesn't play well with ADHD, but I've learned that planning is actually one of the most effective ways to manage my ADHD. We're always going to be impulsive and that's not a bad thing but sometimes we want to want to rein that in and our best chance at reining in impulsivity is forethought. 

In our session today we're going to be going over how to set goals without making them too challenging, figuring out where our focus is going to be next year, updating our calendars with the most important stuff first (you might be surprised with what that is) and then going over why we want to be doing our most important goals first. This Episode’s Top Tips

1. Find your Goldilocks Zone of Challenge for Goal Setting
2. Examine your life domains and choose one to focus on this year
3. Re-write your goals from outcome based goals into process goals
4. Once you have set dates scheduled into your calendar, schedule out your vacation and planning time before anything else
5. Plan to do your 2-3 most important goals in the beginning of the year