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

Exercise—Creating and Evaluating Intermediate Goals

Explicitly connecting tasks to higher-level goals can help motivate action. It creates a link to something we are, hopefully, passionate about. And passion is one of the things that can engage our interest-driven ADHD brains.

This habit cycle has four steps: cue, craving, response, reward.

None of this is easy. It takes new habits and behaviors, most of which are challenging to ADHD brains. But you can do it!

When you think of your goals, what is the boat that you want to make go faster? Whatever your most important goal is, make that your “boat.”

keeping them out of the “not now” bucket. We will examine that next.

Exercise—Looking Backward in Time

there will always be a slippery slope back to the old behavior, particularly the older you are when you get started.

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.