228 How to Create a Picture & Take Charge of Your Life
Sep 12, 2023
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Discover how to be proactive and make purposeful decisions in order to move forward with your dreams and goals. Learn how to create a vision, make a plan, drop the drama around timeframes, and set priorities. Explore strategies for staying determined and maintaining independence. Find out the importance of having a clear vision for your day and month, and how to make your vision enjoyable. Check out the host's coaching program called Focused for more support.
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Quick takeaways
Creating a clear vision and making proactive decisions is essential for moving forward in life, especially for individuals with ADHD.
Having a strong reason behind our vision helps us stay motivated and committed, ensuring that our goals align with our values and desires.
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Living with Vision
Living with vision means living with a plan and being proactive rather than reactive. People with ADHD struggle with this due to deficient executive functions. Having a vision is important because it sets the direction for our lives and helps us make decisions. It requires knowing what we want and going after it. However, people with ADHD often struggle to create a clear picture of their future due to deficient nonverbal working memory. Strategies such as brain training and creating vision boards can help in visualizing and making the vision more tangible. It also requires setting boundaries, saying no to non-priority tasks, and accepting the loss that might come with prioritizing our vision.
The Importance of Having a Clear Point
Having a clear point or reason behind our vision is crucial for staying motivated and committed. It helps us overcome challenges and make sacrifices. Understanding the why behind our vision allows us to stay focused and driven. It's essential to examine our reasons and ensure they align with our values and desires. If we find that our vision lacks a strong why or is not something we truly care about, it may be necessary to reassess and find a new vision that resonates with us.
Making Decisions and Prioritizing
People with ADHD often struggle with making decisions and prioritizing tasks. To live with vision, it's important to practice making decisions, starting with small ones and gradually increasing the complexity. Prioritizing tasks and setting boundaries is crucial in following through with our vision. It requires saying no to non-priority tasks and understanding that loss may be involved. By making empowered decisions and setting clear boundaries, we can move closer to our vision.
Navigating Conflicts and Involving Others
When our vision conflicts with others' expectations or desires, it is important to communicate our vision clearly and involve others respectfully. While it is beneficial to have the support and collaboration of others in our vision, it is also crucial to maintain our determination and commitment even if others are not fully on board. By setting clear boundaries and making decisions that align with our vision, we can navigate conflicts and work towards our goals.
Today's episode is all about how to be PROactive not REactive. ADHDers spend so much time putting out fires and reacting to everything happening around us. But if we're going to truly make forward progress on our own dreams and goals, we're going to need to put down the fire hose and start making some purposeful decisions.
BUT HOW? Tune in how to find out:
How to create a vision even if you can't picture things in your mind's eye
How to make a plan, even if it's only for the next hour
How to drop the drama around the timeframe (spoiler, it doesn't all have to happen today)
This is the perfect episode for you if just don't feel like you're moving forward the way you wish you could.
And if you love this class, check out my ADHD coaching program FOCUSED for even more support.