Becoming aware of and understanding your thought processes, in my opinion, is one of the most valuable skills a person with ADHD can have.

Long-established neural pathways persist. It is the same with ADHD behaviors that have existed over years or decades.

Coming to a description of your Future Self that feels complete takes time and many iterations. As you change and as the world changes around you, the person you wish to become and the things you want will change too. Revisit the “Looking Forward in Time” exercise frequently and see if you need to update your Future Self diagram and statements.

Working with Visual Reminders of Our Goals A big problem with visual reminders is, over time, we grow “blind” to them. Our brains are constantly bombarded with sensory information.

Exercise—Creating and Evaluating Intermediate Goals

Furthermore, they found that Physiological Sighing was the most effective of the three breathwork techniques they tested.

2—Automate the process.

As you might imagine, training to compete in, let alone win, an international competition requires setting lots of specific goals. Hunt-Davis proposed a simplified focus for the team.

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.