The podcast discusses the importance of accepting and understanding one's ADHD brain, prioritizing tasks, managing energy levels, setting realistic goals, starting small, and practicing self-compassion for personal growth.
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Prioritize Self-Compassion and Energy Management
Accept that you don't have to do everything, even beneficial things.
Focus on managing your limited time and energy effectively.
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Procrastination and the Wall of Awful
Recognize that procrastination often stems from exhaustion, not laziness.
Consider Brendan Mahan's Wall of Awful model to understand task aversion.
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Set Realistic Goals and Adapt to Change
Set goals based on your current abilities, not where you want to be.
Avoid blindly repeating past successes without considering changed circumstances.
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As we've been working on goals one place I want us to take a step back on and think about is meeting ourselves where we are.
As we get going with our planning we tend to decide that well we want to do all of the things. And I mean why not, there are a lot of things that I want to do, if I don't start now, when am I going to start? I can't tell you how many ill-fated adventures I've started because of that whole "if not now, when?" line - there are so many things that I should be investing my time in now. I need to be meditating and exercising more and eating healthier and saving money and work on business and building my relationships and learning new skills and on and on and on.
I'm sure everyone listening has that list of things they know that they should be starting on now because the sooner the better results you'll see down the line. But we're not starting on them... or when we do we don't stick with the changes.
Today we're going to be looking at what it means to meet ourselves where we're at and then some of the ways that we can work on making that happen.\ Support me on Patreon Feel free to ask me a question on my Contact Page Find the full show note at HackingYourADHD.com/80This Episode's Top Tips
We only have so much time and energy we can put into any given day - giving ourselves the self-compassion to accept this is our first step in meeting ourselves where we're at.
When we're trying to add things back into our life that we've previously done it can feel like we picked up the wrong puzzle pieces and this is because we often don't think about how our circumstances have changed. Just because we did something before doesn't mean it will be necessarily easy for us to just pick right back up.
After we approach what we're capable of with self-compassion we need to decide on some of the things that we're not going to do. This gives us the mental space to focus on the things we can do right now.
Celebrate your small wins because they are the stepping stones to reaching your goals.
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