In this episode, we’re discussing long-standing goals and how we can create systems that help us achieve them. We'll explore the tools and strategies that make our ADHD work for us, not against us. I'll share some of my own experiences developing these systems. We’ll also examine how we create systems and what really goes into making them work the way we want them to.
All tagged Goals
This week, we have the return of Skye Rapson of Unconventional Organization to discuss an innovative tool she developed, the Planning Funnel, which is designed to help us break down our goals into manageable steps.
In our conversation today, we talk about using the ideas from Agile Product Development and implementing them for personal goal setting and planning. But we also explore issues around neurodivergence, particularly focusing on ADHD and introversion.
ADHD Success with MJ
This week I had the pleasure of talking with MJ Siemens from the ADHD Diversified Podcast and what a conversation we had. In it, we talk a lot about the imposter syndrome that often accompanies success with ADHD and why we often don’t feel successful despite hitting all those metrics we were supposed to. We also talk a lot about how we can work on reframing our views on success so that we can feel good about all those things we accomplish.
Get Ready for Spring with Seasonal Planning
One of the ideas that I’ve been playing with lately is how to go about my planning in a more natural way or perhaps a better phrase would be functional, because while I love the idea of planning it doesn’t always work out how I want to it to. And it dawned on me that one of the ways I could adjust this planning was to focus that planning that was seasonal - because with each season there are definite changes in how I go about my life. And so today we’re going to be exploring how we can look at planning with those seasonal changes in mind.
How to Plan Your Day
Today we're going to focus on how to plan our day because it's easy to let our days get away from ourselves when we don't plan them. It feels like we shouldn't need to do our planning because that's what we were going to do anyway. But planning lets us look ahead and fix problems before they come up. It lets us choose what we want to do with our time instead of just always putting out fires.
Five Frameworks to Build Powerful Goals
Last week dove into how goals work and science behind them - now we're going to be taking all of that and looking at how we can better create our goals through simple frameworks. A lot of these frameworks come from a business setting, but with a little tweaking, we can absolutely make them work for personal use as well.
Today we're going to be looking at a few of the different frameworks we can use for our goal setting as well as hitting the why behind setting those goals.
Freshening Up Your Goals
When we think about goals there's a ton of different ways to think about them, but at their basics, a goal is simply a future result that you are directing your effort. Now there are a lot of different ways that we can go about setting those goals and we'll get into that more next week when I go through some of the various frameworks. But before we get into those frameworks it's important to understand how goals actually work and why we even want to set them.
Lagging Indicators
One of the most important aspects of planning is knowing where you've been and this typically comes from some kind of review process. The reason for the review is so that we can plan an accurate course based on where we are now. But that review is also a lot easier said than done. I've sat down for many a review sessions and realized that I don't have a great way to look back. I'll skim through my calendar and wonder what exactly happened over the last few weeks or months and kind of shrug and go... stuff?
And what that means is that we want to look at how we measure our success - so today we're going to be talking about how we set our goals, how we can work on measuring their outcomes and also questioning what actually makes a good measurement.
Top 5 ADHD Tips
This week I’m delivering a bit of a shorter episode this week focusing on some of the strategies that I find are the most important for managing my ADHD. This is definitely not a definitive list and as for the order of things... well I moved things around a number of times trying to decide what the best order would be and honestly I'm not sure there really is an order or truly a most important thing.
Rationalization and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Resistance is the embodiment of the I don't wanna's - the part of us that keeps us from doing our work - or anything for that matter. And a big part of resistance comes from our ability to rationalize what we're doing - I'll jump into one task and find myself doing something else and then my brain will come up with a reason why I needed to be watching youtube instead of working on this week's episode.
How to Plan Your 2020 Without Getting Overwhelmed
As we jump into planning 2020 there are a number of things that we want to keep in mind.
Looking Back on 2019 for a Great 2020
Before we get started on planning out how amazing our 2020 is going to be, it is important to look back and remember everything that we accomplished in 2019. An entire year is a long time to try and remember so we’re going to use some tools to help jog our memories before we really jump into reflecting on how the year went.
Goals, Strategies and Tactics
Having a clear understanding of our goals allows us to implement better strategies and tactics. If we don't have a clear understanding of why implementing a certain strategy is important we're not really going to stick with it. Adherence is one of the most important factors when it comes to planning. It doesn't matter what you plan to do if you don't follow through with those plans.