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

If you use visual reminders of your goals or of the Future Self you are striving to become, here are a few suggestions to help you continue to notice them. 1—Change the picture.

One thing that my own research and my experience in working with thousands of athletes has taught me is that nutrition is a personal and nuanced thing.

Focusing on our intermediate goals provides clarity of where we should be spending our time.

As we begin to zero in on our intermediate goals, it is important to remind ourselves that they are typically outside of our time horizon.

Unfortunately, for my ADHD brain, once I got into the day I had planned out with this kind of specificity, 10:00 a.m. would roll around, and guess what? I wouldn’t feel like writing my quarterly review.

Review Your Goals

Don’t wonder if your brain will disengage with planning but rather watch for when it will. When the planning habit falls off, we need to get creative and inject some interest and novelty back into the habit.

This can be a huge source of frustration, and it can be hard not to internalize this as there being something wrong with you.

Working toward our goals typically means doing hard things over and over and over again.