517 | December 2023 Live Q&A with ADHD reWired
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In this Q&A, you’ll hear tips and discussions about:
- Navigating around responses and emotions, family dynamics during the holidays, and discussions around ADHD and neurodivergence
- Overestimating our capacity to get things done and avoiding / overcoming burnout
- Time management, energy management, and reframing expectations
- A strategy for remembering to actually stop your timer when time-tracking
- Tools/strategies to help with overwhelm, and the role of acceptance and community
- Using a camera and grid system to organize and declutter a room
- Emotional regulation practices / A.I. tools and services
- Intervening to taking breaks even when you “don’t feel tired” and making decisions on a drained brain
- Cramming for deadlines and zeroing in on sources of procrastination
- Hybrid planning and the importance of experimentation
- Scope creep, saying no, learning our tendencies, and having a “parking lot” for our ideas
Resources & Honorable Mentions
- Book: Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Tawwab (on Goodreads) (Official website)
- Book: 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam (on Goodreads) (Official website)
- Book: Change Your Questions, Change Your Life by Marilee G. Adams (on Goodreads)
- Book: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (on Goodreaads) (Official website)
- Website: GoodInside - Dr. Becky (at https://www.goodinside.com)
- Instagram: Nedra Tawwab @nedratawwab (click here!) (Author of “Set Boundaries, Find Peace”)
- YouTube Video: How to Give Your Brain the Stimulation it Needs (a.k.a. a DOPA Menu!) with Jessica from HowToADHD (click here!)
- Adult Study Hall by ADHD reWired at adultstudyhall.com
- App: Otter.ai https://otter.ai
Quotable Remembrances
- “You’re not the jack-ass whisperer” - Brene Brown
- “You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.” - The Minimalists (Joshua Fields Milburn and Ryan Nicodemus)
- “Novelty is great, but be wise about how you use it.”
- “If we don’t have an accurate picture of what’s going on in our macro life, how can we even begin to know what needs to change?”
- “If you can’t change it, you can change the way you think about it.”
- “Am I overcomplicating this?”
- “If you don’t know where your boundary is first, you are likely to scope-creep.”
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